Modifying parallel dialog

Question

I hope someone can help a poor LabVIEW programmer. I'm running a TestStand 2.01 sequence with the parallel model. I already modified modelsupport.dll to display up to 10 sockets by changing modelpanels.uir and paralleluutdlg.c. Now I need to add a new text control for additional user entry before the sequence runs. I added the control, created the callback, and made some more changes to paralleluutdlg.c. Basically, what I want is after a serial number is entered, to go to new control and when a value is entered there, run. The problem is that when I run seqedit.exe from CVI, I get
NON-FATAL RUN_TIME ERROR
"paralleluutdlg.c",line 271, col 5, thread id 0x000000414
Library function error (return value==-64(0xffffffc0))
The value passed is not a valid control mode for this control
This happens right after the RunUserInterface function is called in the RunParallelUUTDialog function of the DLL. When this happens, I cannot click the OK button to start the sequence. The display for the first socket shows correctly but the information for the other sockets is just displaying the Initializing mode. I've tried several things including commentating out the callback and most of the other changes I made but the problem is still there. I've attached a file with the files in the CVI project. Any help given will be greatly appreciated.
Attachments:
modelsupport2.zip ‏90 KB

Answer 1

I have a couple.
First, try changing using VAL_HOT in place of VAL_NORMAL when setting the control mode of the new string control. The following lines had been setting the control mode to normal:
Line 639:
FWCtrlMode = VAL_HOT;
Line 1240:
errChk( SetCtrlAttribute (panel, testSocketData->ctrls[kTSCtrl_FW],
                        ATTR_CTRL_MODE, VAL_HOT));
The next idea probably won’t make a difference, and it’s worth a shot. Try adding a line, to the initialize ctrls section of the MakeNewTestSocketCtrls function, to set the value of the new string control. That is, starting at line 352:
// initialize ctrls
sprintf(tmpNumBuf, "%d", testSocketIndex + 1);
errChk( SetCtrlVal (childPanel, newTestSocket->ctrls[kTSCtrl_TestSocketIndex],tmpNumBuf));
errChk( RecessFrame(childPanel, newTestSocket->ctrls[kTSCtrl_SerialNum]));
errChk( SetCtrlVal (childPanel, newTestSocket->ctrls[kTSCtrl_FW],""));
errChk( RecessFrame(childPanel, newTestSocket->ctrls[kTSCtrl_FW]));
I hope this helps.
Regards,
Eric M
Message Edited by Eric M on 07-19-2005 07:49 AM