Ideas for improving Primary interface and Dashboard Server

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This message is for the UR development team.

Several customers or collaborators are telling me about the following few features that would be very useful:

  • It is currently not possible to resume a program with Dashboard Server. You can stop or pause, but the “play” command resumes the program from the beginning. Could you add a “resume” command?

  • In Primary/Secondary Interfaces, the GlobalVariablesSetupMessage and GlobalVariablesUpdateMessage seem to be sent when there is a value change and when a program starts. If you connect while a program is running, you are not informed about the list of currently declared variables. Could you also send this information when a TCP client connects?

  • There is no way to write a variable remotely (even by sending script with Primary Interface : it stops the program running. Also a secondary program cannot write a variable…). Is it possible to have a way to remotely write a variable, like a Dashboard server command?

Thank you for your understanding :slight_smile:

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These features would be very useful. It would make life much easier if there would be a simple way to write variables remotely and have an option to simply resume the program instead of running it from the beginning.