You can nearly do this with a custom probe. If you create a custom probe
and have it use the call-chain primitive then you can (on 8.2.1 at
least) get the name of the vi that the probe is on. Now, if there was a
Vi-server method to turn on/off the execution highlighting it would be
easy. As it is, you would have to get some code to open the block
diagram window, then send an OS mouse click message to the right
co-ordinates for the execution highlight button. Clunky, but it would
work in a non-platform independent sort of a way...

Gavin

Bruce Ammons wrote:
> Great idea!!!
>
> Strangely, I was thinking along similar lines. It would be nice be able to
> select areas to do execution highlighting while ignoring others. I was
> trying to debug a program with four parallel while loops, and all four loops
> were highlighting the execution. The one loop I was interested in was even
> slower than usual since I had to wait for the other three loops to highlight
> their execution, even though they were offscreen.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Info-LabVIEW@labview.nhmfl.gov [mailto:Info-LabVIEW@labview.nhmfl.gov]
> On Behalf Of Torben Laursen
> Subject: How about a "Execution Highlight Point"?
>
> I got this idea for a new tool in LabVIEW and sent it to NI, but I am curios
> to hear if others think it would be useful:
>
> In LabVIEW execution highlighting is used to show the execution of a VI.
> Unfortunately it is only possible to turn the feature on or off manually
> possibly in combination with break point to skip over loops etc. to save
> time.
>
>
>


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