save labview frontpage

[krispiekream]

hi, i was wondering if someone can help me with something..

i currently have this program..

with a click of my print button, it print to a printer

but if i set my printer to a PDF Writer, it will save as PDF.

I also have a "Save chart". When I click on that, an HTML report of my CHART will be saved.

I like to save my labview front page with the click of my "Save Chart" button as an HTML format. or PDF is fine too..

I don't like the idea of asking my user to set their printer because that might gets confusing for them.

is there a way?

thanks in advance

[stanthetiger]

Hi krispiekream,

You can let the user choose a printer by using .NET to have a default Windows Print Dialog to show up. The PrintDialog .NET constructor is in System.Windows.Forms namespace. I've attached a simple example VI that demostrates how to open a PrintDialog and pass the name of the printer to the Print Report.vi.

Regards,
Stanley Hu
National Instruments
Applications Engineering
http://www.ni.com/support

[krispiekream]

thanks for the response..
i tried loading your sample but i have labview 8.0 and 7.0.
do you think you can save it to either version?
thanks

[stanthetiger]

Here's the VI saved in 8.0

[krispiekream]

thank you so much..
that will come in handy!!!