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Obtain the Context Help Window Image ?

Hi all,

OK, so I am trying to programatically get / save the image from the context Help Window. I have been reliably told that there is a private method for doing this. I assumed by "private" that it would be a scripting method but I can't find it. Anybody got any other information on how I can get this image ?

So far I am having to save the icon image and a list of input / output terminals. No quite what I was after.

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Chris

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I wouldn't know of such a private method but that doesn't mean it couldn't exist. However not finding such a method would probably prompt me to go about capturing the help window content using WinAPI calls.

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If any of those kind folks from NI are reading on this , would they be prepared to comment ? (or even better, wrap the private method in a vi and post it )

I'm happy to discuss my use case if anyone can help.

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Ancient post, but here's the answer:

 

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Edit: wow! Didn't notice this question is 11 years old 🙂
Anyway, I hope this helps someone

 

I'm not sure if this is what you're looking for:

  

 

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I had another question regarding this topic: 

https://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW/How-to-obtain-the-wire-pane-from-Context-help-without-LabVIEW/m-p/4...

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