Save a front panel image problem

[Silversky]

Hi, i'm trying to save at run-time an image of my front panel, and the little code with the Invoke Node (FP.GetImage) works well but there is a problem, i have a background image for my front panel and this image don't show up in the image saved so i have an image with controls and graphs but a blank background. Is there some way to obtain an image of my ENTIRE front panel? Thanks

[TailOfGon]

I found a thread similar to this here:

http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW/FP-Get-Image-method-does-not-capture-the-background-image/m-p/775191...

[P@Anand]

You can use the code capture tool to grab the FP image as a whole. Use the low level vi's of code capture tool (Courtesy : TCPlomp)

[TiTou]

Hi,

Here's how I got ride of tghis issue, I use Windows "printscreen" function by simulating a keyboard stroke and then I get the data from clipboard (crop it it necessary) and save the image.

What I like about it is that the "crop" makes it easy to get just what I want when there's more than one monitor.

What I don't like is that it's a windows only solution.

Hope it helps