Desktop Execution Trace Toolkit private context INI keys

[JackDunaway]

To enable private context tracing in Desktop Execution Trace Toolkit, in the file %LocalAppData%\National Instruments\Desktop Execution Trace Toolkit\DETT.ini place the following:

 

[Preference]
ShowPrivateContext="True"

It's important to ensure DETT is closed down when you change the file; on exit, DETT flushes to file it's currently loaded settings.

 

 

(Placing this info here with some searchable terms, to save my future self that infrequent 20-minute spelunking exercise of finding it again)

[mje]

What is meant by private context?

[JackDunaway]

What is meant by private context?

 

 

Generally, this is not recommended (or even useful at all!) unless developing IDE mods and/or XNodes.

[mje]

Hah. Got it. "Context" can mean many things, depending on...context?

[hooovahh]

Hah. Got it. "Context" can mean many things, depending on...context?

They aren't the same, but another term you maybe more familiar with is Instance, as in Application Instance.

[Sparkette]

I saw something in the GenerateCode ability VI for one of NI's XNodes that says to open the VI in the NI.LV.XNode context. Would this let me do that?

[Mellroth]

I saw something in the GenerateCode ability VI for one of NI's XNodes that says to open the VI in the NI.LV.XNode context. Would this let me do that?

 

You can open a VI in any context you want by using the code Jack showed earlier to get the context references. 

Then use any of these references as an input to the Open VI method, to open your VI.

 

/J

[Sparkette]

Yeah I figured that, but I was wondering if maybe there was an easier way I could enable that NI used to debug xnodes.

[windjmj]

But in  Desktop Execution Trace Toolkit  2016, I can't found the  %LocalAppData%\National Instruments\Desktop Execution Trace Toolkit\DETT.ini  File.

[jacobson]

I'm sure you got this working by now but did you run DETT in LabVIEW 2016 before looking for the .ini? I just had to change this ini last week and found it in the location you listed.