selectable sequences

[Clint Eastwood]

Hi Chris,

Sorry for the delay.  I was on vaca.

I have TS 4 and LV 8.  Does that help ??  What-ever shipping example that was sent with those versions.

Clint

[Clint Eastwood]

Chris,

Can you save the example in:

TS Engine ver: 4.0.1

Seq Editor ver: 4.0.0.1030

Thanks,

Clint

[j_dodek]

Hi Clint,

I was on holyday, too. I also was not able to open the file! It seems NOW i have to install
TS4.1 on my maschine.
http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?board.id=330&thread.id=20047

Greetings

Juergen

[Chris_G.]

I am sorry about that.  Attached is the example saved in TestStand version 4.0.1.

Message Edited by Chris_G. on 07-01-2008 11:09 AM

[Clint Eastwood]

Thanks Chris,

A few questions.

1. In the 1st message popup  you set "step.result.buttonhit" and in select a seq you have "step.result.buttonhit" won't one over write the other ?? Losing info?  One is to select ( in my case)  a troubleshoot /end to end run and the other is to selct which seq to run ( A,B, C).

2.  What does "runstate.sequencefiledata.seq(locals.buttonhit).asproperty...........  "in "SequenceCall" of this example do??

So this will allow me to set a variable in the main seq and pass it to either seq a,b or c bsed on which button in "Mode" is selected and which seq is selected???

Thanks,

CE

[Chris_G.]

Hello Clint Eastwood,

To answer your questions:

(1)    “Step.Result.ButtonHit” is not a variable that we are writing to, but rather it is the result of the user’s click on the Message Popup that we are reading from.  In the first Message Popup it is stored to the variable “Locals.buttonHit”, and in the second Message Popup it is stored to “FileGlobals.nButtonHit”.  Both steps use the Post-Expression to do this.  Nothing is being overwritten.

(2)    The Pre-Expression for the “Sequence Call” step:

RunState.SequenceFile.Data.Seq[Locals.nButtonHit].AsPropertyObject().SetValNumber ("Parameters.param", 0, Locals.buttonHit )

sets the value of “Parameters.param” in the selected sequence (contained in “Locals.nButtonHit”) to whatever the user selected in the first Message Popup (contained in “Locals.buttonHit”).  To understand the method better, I would recommend taking a look at the NI TestStand Help and searching for it.

(3)    Yes, this will allow you to set a variable in the Main sequence and pass it to any sub-sequence of it.  Try it out and see for yourself J

[Clint Eastwood]

Thanks Chris,

I will try it.  Funding has been cut on this project until Sept so it'll be a while until I can get back to it.

Clint