Hi LAVA friends,
We are pleased to announce that the Delacor Queued Message Handler (DQMH) is now available via the LabVIEW Tools Network:
http://sine.ni.com/nips/cds/view/p/lang/en/nid/213286
You can read about the thought process behind DQMH at our blog post: Ours is not better than yours (or YAF=Yet Another Framework) at WalkingTheWires.com
The DQMH is based on the NI QMH Project Template. The DQMH expands on the NI QMH by providing safe, event-based message handling and scripting tools to encourage same style between different developers in the same project and improve efficiency. The DQMH is ideal for applications where multiple modules must run in parallel, possibly at different rates, while communicating with each other. The DQMH can also be used for applications that have a single module, where the developer would benefit from having a Tester with the capability of eavesdropping on the different DQMH events and messages.
The DQMH integrates with TestStand since all development and troubleshooting can take place under LabVIEW, while calling the public API VIs as individual steps in the TestStand sequence. The tester can eavesdrop during the execution of the TestStand sequence. This is specially useful when the LabVIEW code is written during the research and development or prototyping phase, because the same code can be called by TestStand in production or manufacturing sequences without any changes.
The DQMH uses LVOOP for some internal functions, but developers need not be familiar with LVOOP to use or understand this architecture.
Try it out and let's us know what you think.
Fab and the Delacor team.