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[stevem181]

Nightwind,

Ah, the “good” old 300 baud days!

>Other than creating multiple thumb views, will your approach work with the larger Front panel as shown on the

>superimposed Navigation window on my initial attachment? I.e., my Front panel is currently about twice the size

>of the display, and growing by the day.

I’m not sure I understand the first part of your question: “Other than creating multiple thumb views”.

As far as working with a larger panel, that would not be a problem.

On the Thumb View vi, the size of the small picture of the Front Panel and the size of the red Rectangle just have to be proportional to the actual size of the Front Panel versus the size of the Viewable area. I hope this makes sense.

Check out the picture below. This represents your actual front panel and shows that the part you can see on screen is only a portion of the panel can be viewed. My example simply moves the coordinates of the upper left corner of the Viewable Area box.

Regards,

steve

[nightwind]

Hi Steve,

thanks, I do understand what you've said about the maintenance of relationship between the pic window (red Rectangle) on the Thumb View and the presentation of this portion as the Viewable area.  Makes sense.

My problem is simpler than this, embarrassingly so.  How do I create the Thumb View image of the whole Front panel?  I know how to do a screen capture to produce a .JPG, but of only of the viewable window, so I only get a portion of the Front panel.  Or from LabView, can theoretically print to file, say, to .PDF via

File

  > Print

    > Select VI

      > Complete front panel

        > Printer

          >

            >  Scale front panel to fit

However, this printed a 4-page .PDF, which I converted to .JPG.  One of four pages is attached.  Probably the antiquated software that I have for screen capture didn't accomodate but a Window capture.  But, I'm suprised that LabView didn't seem to get it straight.  I'm using LabView 2011.

Thanks for you thoughts

NW

[stevem181]

nightwind,

Oh, I see what you are talking about. I don't think its a simple problem (i.e. I don't have a good solution).

There is a free trial version of "Snagit" that might be worth trying.

Snagit Manual Page

Free Snagit Trial

steve

[RavensFan]

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@nightwind wrote:

 How do I create the Thumb View image of the whole Front panel? 

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Look into the Code Capture Tool.  Somewhere in its underlying code it is getting a screenshot of the entire front panel, even those parts that are off the screen.  It is also scaling it down.

It even puts a lot of its subVI's onto a palette so that you can programmatically call some of its methods from your own VI.