ui control in insertion palette

[niva]

Hi,

I am using TestStand 4.2.1, not Labview.

In the help, I have read that Ui Control like ListBox or ListBar are available but they are not displayed in insertion palette.

How can I display them or add them programmatically to my sequence ?

Thank you

[~jiggawax~]

It seems that you may have misunderstood what a UI control is used for.

UI (or User Interface) controls are used for stand alone applications which are used to execute sequence files.  Here is a link with more info on that:  http://www.ni.com/white-paper/14376/en/

Although it may be possible to technically call one from a sequence directly using ActiveX it would make no sense.  Usually you have to connect a UI control to a manager control.  Otherwise it is worthless. 

Hope this helps,

[niva]

Ok.

I need message popup with more than 6 choices or a listbox that appear on sequence launch.

I can do it programmatically but have no way to begin.

Where can I find those features ? 

[dug9000]

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@niva wrote:

Ok.

I need message popup with more than 6 choices or a listbox that appear on sequence launch.

I can do it programmatically but have no way to begin.

Where can I find those features ? 

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For more complex dialogs than what the message popup step provides, the easiest thing to do would be to create a custom dialog in whatever programming language you prefer and call that as a code module (e.g. from an Action step) to display the dialog.

See the examples in this directory:

<TestStandPublic>\Examples\ModalDialogs

Hope this helps,

-Doug