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[DFGray]

For LabVIEW 8.6.1, I ran the autorun from the first CD.  From there, I selected Install LabVIEW, Modules, and Toolkits.  I got a splash screen for LabVIEW 8.6.1 Platform DVD.  Click Next and you get a selection tree.  The bottom item is Software Development and Deployment.  The Desktop Execution Trace Toolkit is the third item on the list.

However, I realized that you may have the LabVIEW 8.6.0 platform DVD. Unfortunately, it does not appear to be on the 8.6 DVD.  My apologies.  You will need to request a demo DVD.  Your local NI representative should be happy to get you one.  Or you can request one here.

[Vaibhav]

Ok, not that's all clear!

Thanks for the info.

We have 8.6 (not 8.6.1). And now we have already received 2009 version. A professor who works with LV showed me on his computer. Though, the DVDs are still not with me. So I'm still working on 8.6.

I hope to find Desktop Execution Trace toolkit on 2009 Core DVD. I will wait until then.

Thanks again!

[Vaibhav]

A correction in the previous post, that I just noticed a typo

Ok, now that's all clear!

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OK, finally I could get to use the Desktop Execution Trace toolkit.

I configured LabVIEW and the Trace toolkit as written in the help. I ran your testthreads program, as well as 3 more programs that I made, each with two loops  (two parallel loops without an outer loop, unlike in the testthreads)-

1) two While loops

2) two Timed loops

3) two Timed loops (with explicitely specifying CPU, 0 and 1, that it showed in previous traces) 

And to my surprise, the results were similar to what I had seen using the Process Monitor utility. There was only 1 thread running, no matter the program has 1 loop or 2 loops or 2 loops inside a loop.

Here is the screenshot of the Trace session.

Am I missing something?

Looking forward to your comment.