Rsview Studio Export Screens?

[PLC Gremlin]

I may be missing it but I cannot find the command in RSview Studio ME that will let me export all of my screens out as pictures (.bmp or any other). I am having to resort to doing a print Screen and cutting them out in Paintbrush. There has to be another way.
I used to do it all the time in Panelbuilder32.
If any one could point me in a better direction, I should certainly appreciate it.
Thanks.

 

[PLC Gremlin]

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[rgurin]

Just to make sure I understand what you are trying to do, am I correct that you want captures of the screens in your application that you can then paste in a Word document (for operator training or a similar use)?

I know that you can export the graphic displays in XML, but that is useful only if you are planning on using the displays in a new RSView ME application.

Am I on the right track?

 

[PLC Gremlin]

You hit it on the head..

In Panelbuilder 32 you could go to the Screen Menu and click a menu item called Capture Manager. It did
exactly what I am trying to do. Just Capture the Screens to Paste her and there for Manuals and Flow Charts and such.. Seems simple enough.

 

[rgurin]

Unfortunately, I'm not aware of any RSView ME feature that matches the Capture Manager. It looks like your tedious way may be the only option.

Perhaps a screen capture software (I use Fullshot) could make the job a little easier, but you may still have to edit the pictures even using one of these tools.

Sorry I couldn't be of more help...

 

[PLC Gremlin]

Thanks anyways...

I just wanted to make sure that I was not overlooking something in the menus that captured screens. Seems like a really handy feature that they have left out.
....Go Rockwell Go.....
Glad to see that the insane prices we pay helps out!!!

 

[bkottaras]

Open Microsoft Word, new document
Open the display you'd want to capture.
Use "Ctrl" + "Prnt Scrn" buttons.
Minimize RSView studio and maximize the Word window.
Right click, select paste and there's your capture.

Hope this helps.

 

[Norml]

From the file menu, just print to a PDF file by using something like Cute PDF. Then export the file into any format you want.

 

[Kidblue]

Still think this is one of the neater utilities for screen capturing.... http://www.faststone.org/FSCapturerDownload.htm

 

[PLC Gremlin]

Just came back to check this thread...

bkottaras: I has already tried the "ctrl" + "PrntScreen" , For some reason windows doesn't recognize the display window as seperate and will not only capture it, Still get's the entire screen.. At least on my laptop it does.

norml: Pretty good Idea, i had printed a few of them to the printer and I should have thought of sending it to a PDF. Have to test it but could probably save it out as about anything if I had Adobe PDF full. REader may do it. Have to check. Or like you said, another generic PDF tool may work.

KidBlue: Very cool.. I am going to check this out. I could potentially find lots of uses for this. I am constantly using printscreen for a variety of different things..


Edit:.. Unfortunately none of these matches the capture manager in the good ole Panelbuilder.. Interesting that they did not put that functionality into RSview Studio.. Appreeciate the ideas..

 

[mellis]

Try ALT-PrtScn. It gets the active window.

CTL-PrtScn gets the entire screen.