Calling third party software from LabVIEW

[NAGWI]

Hi All,

In one of the requirement, I need to open the Debugger(AXD) then needs to send some commands from it.

Is it possible to invoke debugger from LabVIEW and work on specific text boxes in the debugger.

Details : APIs or DLLs related to debugger are not exposed to outside world.

I am using teststand3.1 software as manangement tool.

Is any body come across similar type of issue ?,,Please suggest me the way to wokr on it.

Regards,

KHN

[alexwarrior]

I couldn't quite fully grasp your question, and I've not worked with that particular debugger, but if it's just a matter of invoking an executable and passing it some command-line options, the System Exec VI might be what you need:

http://forums.lavag.org/index.php?act=attach&type=post&id=5879

- Alex

[NAGWI]

QUOTE(alexwarrior @ May 16 2007, 03:45 AM)

I couldn't quite fully grasp your question, and I've not worked with that particular debugger, but if it's just a matter of invoking an executable and passing it some command-line options, the System Exec VI might be what you need:

http://forums.lavag.org/index.php?act=attach&type=post&id=5879''>http://forums.lavag.org/index.php?act=attach&type=post&id=5879'>http://forums.lavag.org/index.php?act=attach&type=post&id=5879

- Alex

Thanks for the reply.

This particular debugger supports very few command line commands.So very difficult to work with them to fully automate whole system.

IS their any way to inlcude user actions in to the labview or to the teststand by anyway.And also command line is available only after the window is opened and the command line is bulit inside the debugger.

Regards,

KHN

[Aitor Solar]

If that debugger don't expose anything (ActiveX, .Net, whatever) and you can't pass the needed info through the command line or similar, I don't see how you can control it from LV :thumbdown: . I suppose you could get the control of Windows mouse and keyboard and simulate a human user... but that's defnitely not elegant.

Saludos,

Aitor

[ghianda]

Look at: http://www.autoitscript.com

AutoIt is a freeware Windows automation language. It can be used to script most simple Windows-based tasks (great for PC rollouts or home automation).

Hi

Ghianda

[Jim Kring]

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