Thanks for the info Uwe. I'm still debating whether to use this tool or not. I do like many aspects of it but with only 30-days to evaluate it and being pressed for time on my other projects, I just can't tell. Since one has to have certain variables coming out of the VI in order for teststand to communicate with the VI, I have to modify a lot of my previously written code. Also very time consuming. Can you elaborate more on this statement of yours below. So if I understand you correctly, I cannot use LV6.1 to do this? I have some old machines that don't have the harddrive space to accomodate LV7.1. I would have to update their harddrives which is simple to do but do I want to pump more money into an ailing machine or just go out and get a few new ones. After a while, it doesn't make sense to put money into an outdated machine.
""2. You can define locals, parameters and different types of globals in TS and 'connect' those with fitting data types on the connector pane of the VI. This works only in the cooperation of TS3 and LV7, AFAIK."" -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Uwe Frenz Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 3:25 AM To: Scott Serlin Cc: LV-Info, list Subject: Re: Teststand 3.0 question Scott, You wrote: > Does anyone know how to set up teststand in order to pass parameters into and out of a VI? I just evaluating it > right now to see if it is worth buying. I have a lot of VIs that I wrote previously and wanted to try to insert > them into teststand with a minimum amount of effort. Any suggestions? I'm trying and working with TS3 since about a year. Constantly switching between 'Woow, what a great product' and 'What the heck do they mean with that' resp. 'What was the name of that damned variable?'. It is quite easy to call a VI and to pass data between both sides. There are two ways. 1. You can pass an activeX ref to the VI and use SubVIS to pass data between LV & TS. There are several examples in TS. 2. You can define locals, parameters and different types of globals in TS and 'connect' those with fitting data types on the connector pane of the VI. This works only in the cooperation of TS3 and LV7, AFAIK. But an update to Dev Suite Test Edn is higly recommended as it costs not soo much more than simply buying TS alone and you get amoung others a one year SSP. I still can not tell you if TS is worth its costs _for_us_. It is a really complex product. But is is for sure not as easy to handle like NIs marketing tells us. The best 'poor comparision' I have found is TS is like a helicopter - a very powerfull tool, but one needs a lot of expertise to operate it. And, what I am troubled most with, is, it is much more C-related than LV-related. So often I end transfering even simple processing into a simple VI rather than doing it in TS, because of my missing C competence. There is a rather dead Info-TestStand and a more frequented forum on NIs pages for TS. But until now I was unable to find anyone here in Germany that is using TS and is willing to share competence like here on this list. I hope for the German NI Days VIP2004 in March... Greetings from Germany! -- Uwe Frenz ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dr. Uwe Frenz Entwicklung getemed Medizin- und Informationtechnik AG Oderstr. 59 D-14513 Teltow Tel. +49 3328 39 42 0 Fax +49 3328 39 42 99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW.Getemed.de