Step settings in TS4

Hi All.
In TS4 is there this new window "Step settings", where you directly can edit for instance the expression in a statement, is there any way that we can "program" this window, so when you have a custom step type, then you don't have to press ctrl-e to open a new window or press the button in this "step settings"... but directly configure the step....
Any ideas... or is it for NI only...
/Bojer

Hi Mathieu,
This is exactly the potential I see in it too. But, as even the Best Practices document for Custom Step Type development from the NI TestStand Architecture series says,
"Currently, you cannot embed the editing interface for custom step types
into the Step Settings pane."
I did some snooping around to figure out why..
The key lies in the NIStepTypeControls.dll file in the installation 'Bin' folder for which we do not have the source code..
Although I managed to add tabs to existing steps, (and they did not work properly) and change the display strings, it was really a dead end from a custom step type development point of view.
Regards,
Aditya Changavalli
NI TestStand 4.2.1

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