Tools menu broken?

[jvh75021]

According to TestStand (4.2.1) help there should be 13 options under the Tools menu, mine only displays Customize. Anyone else seen this?

Thanks,

jvh

[Eugene12]

I have seen this after somehow my "Toolsmenu.ini" file got changed to a file size of zero (0 KB).

Eugene

[jvh75021 · Accepted solution]

Under Configure > Station Options >> Preferences tab I changed my cfg directory so that I could get my station globals in the same tree as my source code for source control purposes. When I changed the preference back to the default for some debugging a new empty .ini file was written. 

If this file is broken the secret is to shutdown TS before replacing the zero length file with a backup, otherwise TS overwrites it again during shutdown. 

TestStand - a test platform for testing my patience.

[Teds]

I have seen this issue before....

When I built a 'User Interface' application in TestStand 4.1.1, I had a custom ToolMenu.INI file in my Deployment ( TSD file ).  Well when I uninstalled my application ( via Add/Remove Programs ), it 'removed' the Tools Menu.INI file from the CFG\ directory.   I am not exactly sure why the uninstaller removes the INI file even though it was edited at a later date....

Opening TestSand again, it will create a  0kb size ( empty ) ToolMenu.INI file if it is not found.  So I had to keep a backup file in the CFG directory to allow it to bring  back the default NI tools.

PH

[Teds]

JVH

Your statement:

"TestStand - a test platform for testing my patience."

Got a good laugh here at work, many of my co-workers agree with you.

Paul