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I have a windows console application, which requires user inputs (keystrokes) during the application run. Now I want to start and control this application out of labview (8.5). Has anyone a good idea, how this can be done ? The "System Exec.vi" seems to be unsuitable, because you can not pass any data to stdin during the run of the application.

Well, of course I agree absolutely with JoeLabView that Cheap + Fast != (not equal) Good. My company is a manufacturer for medical devices. These are long-living (compared to consumer electronics) and therefore it is extremly important for us that my written code is manageable, reusable and stable. Thats the reason, why I spent time to think about the really best solution for my task here and I am very amused that we can share our knowledge here in this forum.
I also thinked about creating a DLL as suggested by smercurio. If I will solve my task in that way, I still have to remove the User Interactions and call the appropriate subfunctions directly. If a newer ART-Tool will be used in the future, this work must be repeated. It that maybe that the developer must go deeply into the coding of the tool. Nevertheless it is a possible way, of course.
Actually I thinked about a further solution I want to discuss with you. The .NET framework provides functions for redirection of standart input and output. Refer to the explanation of "ProcessStartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput Property" and "ProcessStartInfoRedirectStandardInput Property" within the .NET Framework Documentation, there are also some examples of how to use them. With this background knowledge, I think that it must be possible to write some kind of wrapper code, which starts the tool and redirects the input/output to labview. The code maybe implemented as a DLL which can then being embedded into LV, or as a separate executable file, whereby the communication between LV and the wrapper code may be done over TCP for example. What do you think about this attempt ?
@smercurio:
>> trying to use the ART-tool as it is for automated testing will cause you grief in the long run ....
Where exactly, did you have the problems? Did you have the problems across multiple art revisions ? What was your "main" problem ? Please let me know your experience, cause I do not want to run into similar problems.

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