Front panel printing settings

Hey!!
i wana to ask that are there any settings for printing the front panel window??? like describing certain area to print . I actually tried to print it by selecting PRINT WINDOW from files menu but it printed a page without any objects on it??

Hi ssddii,
If you select File>>Print from within your VI, it should give you options for printing the front panel. Among these options, you should be prompted to select the VI, choose the portion you want to print (whole front panel, visible portion only, etc), the destination, and set general print settings.
I hope that helps a little,
Lauren
Applications Engineering
National Instruments

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Vi front panel printed

hi,
i have a real strange problem and don't know even where to start.
i have a real complex program running on a PC that is connected to my net with a VPN.
every time one of the VIs executed it tells a printer at my location to print the front pannel of this VI.
when running the same program on another PC at the same point i got this strange messsage that the program is attemptint to go to some pdf quick-books files.
the VI is attached.
any ideas will be welcomed
thanks
amose
Attachments:
check for dirt.vi ‏77 KB

Oh, I thought the printing was desired. Go to File->VI Properties for the VI you posted. Change the category to Print Options. In the section Print with Execution, you have the automatically print front panel every time VI completes execution checked. Uncheck it. Check to see if you have it checked for any of your subVIs, too.
Message Edited by Matthew Kelton on 12-26-2007 01:36 PM
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Front panel Printing with A4 Standerd

Easy printing the test reports with the Front panel as per the A4 Standard.
For making the A4 Standard printing needs the option to make Pane A4 Size.
Then we can make easily create the front panel reports easy manner, add Indicator (result ,title, logo, auto signatures etc) in the report and generate the print out.

Developing a GUI on a computer monitor is that much different from printing an A4 (or letter for those americans insisting to use this peculiar standard ), that I think there are not many use cases to force it to the size of a piece of paper.
Alternatively, one could define a printing area, optionally being visible on the front panel and being able to print just that area. So put all controls and indicators you want to be printed in that area, leaving space for GUI elements you don't want to be printed.
The more I think of this the more I like it.
So, on second thought, kudos but preferably for a printing area to be defined by the user.
Greetings from the Netherlands where printers loaded with A4 paper are as common as water runnning from the tap.
(and yes, we all do have taps here ).

How to save settings in the front panel to different files and retrieve it later?

How to save the front-panel controllers' settings to different files and retrieve it later?
What I've archived is the "Save Settings" function, but when trying to "Reload Settings", I can only retrieve the saved data to front-panel indicators, but not the controllers!
Can anybody give me some advises?
Thanks in advanced!
Charles Lu

Hi
Just write the retrieved data to a local variable (but make it writable first) or property node of the controls.
Hope this helps.
Thomas
Using LV8.0
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Printed front panel graphics quality (Print Panel to Printer method vs. Append Front Panel Image to Report.vi)

LV 6.02 (or 6.1)
NT 4.0
I have a vi that the front panel includes all the information I need to print except that it is on different pages of a tab control to conserve screen space. I was attempting to programatically cycle the value of the tab control in a For loop and invoke the Print Panel to Printer method to print 7 pages of the front panel, each with a different tab page selected. The printouts were excellent quality but beginning with the second consecutive Print Panel to Printer method the on screen front panel image of the VI being printed would become jumbled (sometimes, by the time 7 printings were done, the entire front panel image would disappe
ar and a bitmap of the desktop or underlying windows would be visible in the VI's panel frame) yet the subsequent Print Panel to Printer methods continued to print the panel as they should appear. The visible front panel graphics would never return to normal and the only solution was to close the vi (in the dev system) or exe (compiled) and re-launch. I tried a lot of things (like hiding the panel to print before printing and showing it after printing) with no luck. It appears that two or more of these consecutive invoke methods caused the problem regardless of whether the tabs were cycling, or even if there was no tab control and much fewer controls on the panel to be printed than normal. I also had the same problem with LV 6.1.
Finally, I was forced to switch to the report generation toolkit vi's, I cycle through the tab pages and use the Append Front Panel Image to Report.vi to append each image to the report. This is faster and control returns to my program quicker but I a
m unhappy with the printed quality of the graphics of the front panels. They are not as high of resolution as those generated via the Print Panel to Printer method.
Any suggestions?

You might try changing the way the VI is printed by going to tools >> options >> printing. Try the postscript and bitmap settings.
Jeremy

Print front panel by clicking on a boolean button

Hi everyone,
I need that a user can print the front panel just by clicking on a button in the front panel.
Apparently I need to use Report generation ==> Easy print VI panel + a boolean button.
But I have no idea how to make the connections. My code is in a while loop. Where I have to connect the inputs "VI path" or "contents" for example and then how to connect the boolean button ? (I just want to print the front panel)
(I have seen the manuel help on ni.com but it didn't really help me...)
Thanks for your help
Best regards
Solved!
Go to Solution.

You just need to wire a Current VI's path to the Easy print VI panel (VI path input). And that's it. It will print the VI front panel on the default printer.
If you can't use the event structure just place a case structure and wire your Print button to the selector. First make it print on the default printer with default settings and then start to play with things such as contents.

Print VI front panel to file does not work after building executable.

I am using a property and invoke node to print the front panel of my VI to an HTML file. It works fine in the development mode. After Building the application, this subvi will no longer
print the front panel. Is there some special files that included in the build??

You can use the Report Generation VIs to generate the HTML report. Specifically, you could use Append Front Panel Image to Report.vi and Save Report to File.vi to save the image of the panel to an HTML report.
Check out the examples in examples\reports to get a better idea how to use these VIs if you've never used them before.
Good luck,
-D
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Print only a specific control or indicator on a front panel to HTML document

Is there any way to print a specific control or indicator (not the whole front panel) to HTML document? I am trying to print a report that has a graph and some indicator value on it.

There is a VI called "Append Control Image to Report.vi" which will allow you to do this. It's located in the Functions>>Report Generation pallette. Take a look at this and see if it's what you're looking for.
J.R. Allen

How can i print an excel spreadsheet file by clicking a button on the front panel

i have designed a vi that logs data into an excel spreadsheet. i want to take print out of the file when the user clicks a button on the front panel. what to do if there is very large amount of data.

Preet,
Printing the Excel sheet is just an ActiveX method call to print the worksheet. To add data to the worksheet, you already have the reference, just call a print method. As for handling large amounts of data, that is a vague question. The data will print how ever you placed it on the worksheet. If what you mean is that you don't want to print out 25 pages every time, the print method has options to only print specific pages or ranges. You may want to play around with a sample spreadsheet to learn the printing options. For help on the ActiveX functions, make sure you have the Visual Basic help installed for Excel.
Randy Hoskin
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National Instruments
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HP 6500 wireless ALL-in-one e709n Printer front panel not responding at all

Hi there,
I have got a HP 6500 wireless ALL-in-one e709n printer.
I have been using it with my pc with windows vista on it for nearly 2 years and it has been great.
1 month ago, the front panel of the printer stopped responding, ie, when i press any buttons, the lcd screen on the printer does not change, it always show the ink level.
The printer turns on, shows that its preparing, then goes to idle state with ink level icons on the screen.
If i try to print any documents, it works with ethernet cable connected to my pc (which i used to do it wirelessly) , the cable-connected printing function still works, but wireless printing does not work anymore.
However if i try to scan something, on the pc when i open the hp scan app, it shows that 'scanner is not available'.
Also because the front panel doesnt work, no buttons respond, i cannot scan or copy.
I have tried unplug everything and reinstall all drivers and programs.
No damage to printer or my pc, it just stopped working all the sudden.
Can any one help me out please?
cheers,
Charlie

Hi Charlie,
Try going throgh the steps listed below and check if that may help:
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c02716803&cc=us&dlc=en&lc=en&product=3795406&tmp...
Shlomi
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Save front panels and print them at once

I have a VI that will be executed multiple times with different data, i want each of this front panels to be printed but it has to be one print instruction. I've tried to make an image of the front panel and append this to an Report, but the image is of a bad quality and the image which was made, contained only the view on screen!

If you want a report that is an image of the display screen one thing you can do is create a VI whose front panel is a clone of the application's front panel. The only code behind this front panels would be property nodes to set the clone's front panel to match changes the user makes in the display during execution (for example, a user can change the color of plots, or the such things). It is vital that the diagram of this VI has at least 1 property node, otherwise it will only update if its window is open.
Now as you main application is running it gathers a collection of all the data that you will want to print. When the user then clicks a print button, or the program exits (however you want the program to work) the code would take each dataset and one at a
time pass it to the clone VI and programatically print its front panel.
However, if all you have is tabular data (i.e. no plots or other graphics) I have found it easier to use the report generator VIs, but it's your call.
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I want to print the front panel without all the header stuff while the vi is running

I want to print the vi front panel without all the header information that Labview puts at the top. I want to do all this while the vi is running by pushing a button.

One option is to use the the 'Print VI to Printer' method. Beware that invoking this method repeatedly with complex front panels has caused me graphics problems in my VI's display that persist until the development environment or the built .exe app is exited and re-entered.
See: http://exchange.ni.com/servlet/ProcessRequest?RHIVEID=101&RPAGEID=135&HOID=5065000000080000005F5A0000&UCATEGORY_0=_49_%24_6_&UCATEGORY_S=0&USEARCHCONTEXT_QUESTION_0=spaz+print&USEARCHCONTEXT_QUESTION_S=0
NI has confirmed this to be a bug in 6.0x and 6.1 and has indicated that it will be fixed in the next version.
I was forced to fall back on the Append Front Panel Image to Report.vi in the report toolkit. Which does not produce printed graphs of as high as quality as the Print VI to
printer method.

Front panel not aligning properly on scale print

So I've created a custom print VI with various graphics that I'd like to print on an 11x17 sheet of paper in landscape mode, but for the life of me I can't get the thing to align properly. I want the front panel to print centered with 0.1 - 0.2 inch margins all around, but instead of doing this, the front panel will sometimes print aligned to the left and top or other times to the right and top (with wrong margins always on two sides, sometimes three or four). I'm using a programmatic call to the easy print function that scales the front panel to fit on this size. However, even after making the proportions of objects on the VI 11:17 (vertical: horizontal) I still can't seem to get this thing to center properly. Any ideas of what the problem could be?

Ok, So I created a blank VI with a 1280 x 1978 frame decoration, yet the print preview in labview still doesn't seem to show the thing with proper alignment.
Looking at the picture, looks like it's aligned along the right and top of the page rather than uniformly centered. Ideally, the frame would uniformly cover all the edges around the page in the preview. I suspect this is an issue with LabVIEW and not my printer, as I can set my printer to borderless printing.
Any ideas?
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print align.JPG ‏22 KB

Cannot print front panel

I have tried to print the front panel and the block diagram. The front panel is blank but I do get the block. What is the issue. Tried on another pc and both do not work.
Dg

A little unclear as to how you are doing it
Are you using print option in menu>>File>>Print??
Or, Are you using LabVIEW to programatically print/ 'append to report' your Front panel?
Message Edited by devchander on 09-29-2006 12:34 AM
Message Edited by devchander on 09-29-2006 12:36 AM

Print Front Panel/Change Colors?

Unfortunately, the optimal GUI for display on a computer screens does not
work very well for printing. I have a program that has a lot of graphs with
black backgrounds and it really sucks the black ink if it is printed often.
In the past, I solved this issue by having a duplicate screen that I sent my
data to that had white backgrounds. In this case I have a lot of tabs,
controls, and indicators and it would take too long to create all the print
screen scenarios on a separate VI.
Question: Does anyone know of a simple method to invert colors or change
brightness of panel printouts to use less ink?

When using Bill's solution, you can use the "Panel >> Defer Panel Updates" property using Property Nodes. Set it to TRUE, then change colors, print the front panel, reset the color, then set the "Defer Panel Updates" to FALSE.
That way the user will never see the panel color change.
Please see the attached image.
- Philip Courtois, Thinkbot Solutions
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PrintWhitePanel.JPG ‏59 KB

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