Screen shot of a 3rd party software

[muks]

A 3rd party software is running in my PC. The display shows reports of components passed or failed and the condition of failure etc. But this report cannot be retrieved as no local copies are stored. For my reference I would like to

1. capture the screen after every update.

2. Retrive the data and write it to a excel. (Is OCR an option?)

Any light on this will be very helpful.

[MikeS81]

Hi muks,

it should also be possible with windows API. You can get the handle of the control which stores the pass/fail information and read it from there. If this is not possibe, you can use this code to get the image you need:

http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?board.id=170&message.id=311290&query.id=1125687#M311290

Mike

[muks]

Hi mike,

Thanks for the reply. But the program crashes labview. "Labview encountered a problem and needs to close". I tried it with the lv 8.0 version in the thread. Do you think my lv is corrupted? 

[MikeS81]

Hi muks,

it works for me, but here is an alternative. It only reads the image from the clipboard.

Mike

Message Edited by MikeS81 on 06-18-2009 11:05 AM

[unclebump]

take a look at a program called macro express for automating something like this.

http://www.macros.com/

http://www.wintools.com/automation.htm

[parthabe]

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muks wrote:

Hi mike,

But the program crashes labview. "Labview encountered a problem and needs to close". I tried it with the lv 8.0 version in the thread. Do you think my lv is corrupted? 

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What is your LV version? Can you post here a screenshot of you LV crash?

[muks]

AS I mentioned I am using lv 8.0 .

[MikeS81]

Hi muks,

can you work with the vi from my second post?

Mike

[parthabe]

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muks wrote:
AS I mentioned I am using lv 8.0 .

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I think you did not...

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muks wrote:

Hi mike,

I tried it with the lv 8.0 version in the thread. Do you think my lv is corrupted? 

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This is why I asked what your LV version is...

[muks]

In all the subvis I get this error and when i try bypassing the error connection labVIEW crashes.