how to do screen shots of block diagram,front panel window

[rajasekar.rk]

Hi friends,

How can i do screen shots in labview for posting the (front-panel window and block diagram window )in labview forum,....
please provide links or step to do this.....

Regards
rajasekar

[smercurio_fc]

You can try the "Code Capture Tool", written by a well-known forum contributor.

[tst]

Download the LLB found here and place it in your LabVIEW\Project folder. Then restart LabVIEW and it will appear in your tools menu.

It will capture the diagram\FP of the VI from which you opened the tools menu. More details can be found in that thread.

[Rod42]

There are a number of pieces of software that allow you to select and grab a screen or part of a screen, some free, some not. Just do a web search for "screen copy" or similar and choose your package.

Alternatively, just press the "Print Screen" button, and paste the result into your favourite image file editor to select the portion you want. Save that portion to a file.

Rod.

[smercurio_fc]

OK... How the heck did the URL that I posted to the Code Capture Tool library (the same one as the URL that tst has) get screwed up?

Sorry about that.

Walks away grumbling and mumbling to himself...

[parthabe]

Maybe when U told it to attach as a hyperlink, it got screwed up completely...

But, I'm also curious to know why & how did it happen that way...

[rajasekar.rk]

Hi Friends,

Thanks for ur reply,

I am getting these errors,when i copied to labview8.2/project folder and i restarted the labview software,
as u suggested......

LabVIEW:  An input parameter is invalid. For example if the input is a path, the path might contain a character not allowed by the OS such as ? or @.

VI Name: .....

Do u have any Documention files or links provided by NI....to do this

regards
rajasekar

[parthabe]

Hi Rajasekar,

Can you attach the screenshot of the error properly again ?

I think it has not got loaded.

[tst]

You can't just run the VI by itself.

The VI captures the diagram of the VI you are working on, so you have to select it from the tools menu when the VI you want to capture is open. Read the thread where the VI was posted for more details.

If you want, you can change the code of the VI to pop up a dialog box which will allow you to select which VI you want to capture, but this was the way we found it to be convenient for our uses.

In any case, you won't get any help from NI, because they didn't write it.