send control image programmatically to clipboard

[RnDMonkey]

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@tst wrote:
We used some free VIs from Rolf Kalbermatter to do this in the Code Capture Tool. The tool itself is released in 7.0 format, but the VIs will also work on older versions if back saved.

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Yes, this was useful for me. I was banging my head against the problem until it occured to me that there must be a VI I could pull from the CCT to handle the saving of a LV Image to clipboard. The format is device-independant bitmap, which is just fine.
 The VI is named "Copy Image to Clipboard DLL_CCT.vi".

 

Ryan R.

[BowenM]

That should work for any control (or indicator) to capture the image and dump it to clipboard.  It doesn't call the Windows API at all, or rely on any external DLLs.

[usrfrnly]

so I am using some very similar code but it won't function in a sub VI unless the front panel is opened. It works every time if the same code is in the top level VI, or if the front panel of the sub VI is open, but almost never works in a sub VI. High CPU load seems to decrease the likelihood of it working in a sub. 

Anyone want to harbor a guess as to why?

[JÞB]

Anyone want to harbor a guess as to why?

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Sure

[usrfrnly]

Thanks. I knew it was indicative of some fundamental lack of knowledge on my part but if you can't reveal your ignorance, no one will bother to alleviate you of it. 

[zou]

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@BowenM wrote:

That should work for any control (or indicator) to capture the image and dump it to clipboard.  It doesn't call the Windows API at all, or rely on any external DLLs.

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However, this is NOT a true VECTOR image, but a EMF wrapped BMP file.

Get Image method returns PIXELs.