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Printing the running VI chart to a printer..

Hello again.

I have a VI that is used to read a data file and plot it on the
screen. Is it possible to take that chart even better the whole
VI and print it to a printer. I found a VI that looked like it would
do that but it keeps telling me the VI isn't in memory so I'm thinking
you can't use that VI to print the VI it's in, I think but I'm still
playing with it.

Also if you can print it can you change the plot so it has a black
line on a white background, otherwise we could use up alot of toner.

Thanks for any help.

Regards,

Steve Drake
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Steve,

Under the vi setup (right click icon from front panel)-> execution options
there is a
checkbox for 'print panel after execution', select this to print your vi
panel. you can develop a duplicate of your graph vi, select the print option,
and make background, etc. white to save on toner. you can then either call
this from your original vi, or add a 'print' boolean selection to let the
user choose.

pat

Steve Drake wrote:
>Hello again.>>I have a VI that is used to read a data file and plot it on
the>screen. Is it possible to take that chart even better the whole>VI and
print it to a printer. I found a VI that looked like it would>do that but
it keeps telling me the VI isn't in memory so I'm thinking>you can't use
that
VI to print the VI it's in, I think but I'm still>playing with it.>>
Also if you can print it can you change the plot so it has a black>line
on a white background, otherwise we could use up alot of toner.>>Thanks for
any help.>>Regards,>>Steve Drake
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