Can i make an automatic Print screen in labview ?????

[smercurio_fc]

Most screen capture programs have hotkeys that you can use to capture the screen. Some sit in the taskbar tray. So, you can find yourself a tray-resident screen capture program that has hotkeys, and then all that you would need to do is to send the hotkey command to Windows.

If you search this forum you will find examples on how to do this. For example, the second page in this thread has some examples:
http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?board.id=170&thread.id=170138&view=by_date_ascending&page=2

[PaulG.]

I have been following this discussion very closely because it is something I have been trying to do for years, i.e. create a relatively simple LV VI that will capture and/or print the entire screen. I have been relying on 3rd-party software to accomplish this but would love to be able to do this through LV seamlessly. From the looks of it it's still not that "easy" or "simple". I would think that a simple ActiveX call in vanilla LV and Windows would allow us to do this. I still don't see it.

[GerdW]

Hi,

to combine both smercurio's and PaulG's message:
maybe it's possible to send a "PrtScr" key event to windows? Then you could access the Windows clipboard to get the screen capture, there are some functions readily available from Wiebe (I think) ...

[MikeS81]

Hi Marc,

here is my solution to get the screenshot. I generate a key event and read the picture from the clipboard. I´m sure there are some parts of code which can be made better, but i hope it helps.

Mike

Message Edited by MikeS81 on 03-26-2008 09:40 AM

[GerdW]

Hi Mike,

very nice work!

[marc france]

Hi everyone,

Thank you very much for all of your posts. I haven't been on the forum for a few days. One of my collegues has made a quick .exe in VB that takes a screen shot when F6 is pressed. Using Smercurious program, I am able to launch that VB program every time I need to. Mike, I will try your program since it seems to be a more intelligent way of doing this.

Thanks again for all your ideas and your help,

regards,

Marc

[marc france]

Thanks Mike, works perfectly !

[marc france]

Hi Mike,

Sorry to bother you again... I have been playing with the options in your Vi but I haven't been able to do  this :

keep the front window opened and maximized (that's ok) and keep an activated screen (in my situation, it is the picture of a webcam working with the origin software of the webcam)  open too while the screen shot is made. In other words, I would like to take a screen shot of the screen as it is (the labview program musn't change anything on the screen).

Is this possible,

Thanks for your time and help,

Regards,

Marc

[MikeS81]

Hi Marc,

see the attached picture please. Delete the red marked thinks in your vi. If the constant is true, you get a screenshot of the window with the focus, if the constant is false you get a screenshot of the entire Monitor.

Mike

Message Edited by MikeS81 on 03-31-2008 10:07 AM

[marc france]

Thank you very much  Mike!

regards,

Marc