How to save a screenshot while VI is running in LabVIEW 8.5

[LITE]

I am wondering how to save the screenshot of PC while the VI is running in LabVIEW 8.5.1?

Thank you.

[mikeporter]

How do you do a screenshot when LV isn't running? On my PC I hold down the function key and press the print screen key. This copies the screen so I paste it into paint.

Mike...

[Ranjeet_Singh]

Use invoke node

[timtamslam]

I like using the Snipping Tool built into Windows 7 and later. 

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/products/features/snipping-tool

A couple things I like, 

1. When you make a snip, it automatically puts it in the clipboard so you can quickly paste it into a document

2. If you hit "Cancel" on the current snip process you put it into a kind of "triggered" mode. So, I can put my mouse over a drop down menu or other interactive component in LabVIEW, then press ctrl+PrtScn to call the Snipping Tool to action, and it allows me to snip whatever interactive components were open. For example, here is a snip of a right-click on a control that shows it being highlighted and the right click menu. 

[mikeporter]

That is very cool, and much better that takinbg a screen shot of your entire display and needing to edit it down to the part you're interested in. Taking the microsoft video one step further, I created a shortcut to the tool on my desktop...

Mike...

[timtamslam]

I do the same, Mike!

To add a bit more onto this, here is how I break things down. 

1. Snip a specific section(including interacted components): Snipping Tool with "New"

2. Snip a specific section that you have interacted with: Snipping tool in background and calling it with "ctrl+PrtScn"

3. Print a selected window: "alt+PrtScn"

4. Print everything (all monitors with OS display): "PrtScn"

[billko]

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@timtamslam wrote:

I do the same, Mike!

To add a bit more onto this, here is how I break things down. 

1. Snip a specific section(including interacted components): Snipping Tool with "New"

2. Snip a specific section that you have interacted with: Snipping tool in background and calling it with "ctrl+PrtScn"

3. Print a selected window: "alt+PrtScn"

4. Print everything (all monitors with OS display): "PrtScn"

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it's about time they made the printscreen smarter.  They had more sophisticated snipping in their HTML Help chm editor for ages... You can even capture the mouse cursor in that app!

[LITE]

I saw some people mention about "invoke node", could you provide more detail? Thanks.

[timtamslam]

Not sure if this is specifically what they were mentioning but this has some useful information, 

https://www.ni.com/docs/en-US/bundle/labview/page/printing-vis-programmatically.html

The method I the method they were referring to is Block Diagram: Get Image Scaled or Front Panel: Get Image Scaled.

https://www.ni.com/docs/en-US/bundle/labview-api-ref/page/properties-and-methods/vi-server/vi-m.html

[Ranjeet_Singh]

Copy the VI into 1 folder and run. The image file will be saved in same file.

Hopew this will help