4/15/2016 9:02 PM | |
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In my search for a way to take screenshots from an HMI, I found this article which enables you to save screenshots to a PDF file: https://support.industry.siemens.com/cs/document/58205602/ This is great, but I'm wondering if there is a way to save screenshots from an HMI to an image file instead, i.e. a .bmp or .png. These would be better quality and be more convenient for me to work with. Has anyone ever done this before? Just to clarify, I'm interested in taking screenshots both in a runtime and without a runtime running. My purpose is to use screenshots in documentation to help the guys on the shop floor configure an HMI. |
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4/15/2016 10:19 PM | |
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Hello, Did you tried the following method before? Try it and tell us if you satisfied with its result. How do you create screenshots of configured HMI screens with WinCC (TIA Portal)? |
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9/11/2019 10:06 AM | |
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Is there a way to follow this way without showing the buttons set as invisible? In my tests I see the empty rectangle with black dots as in the design page, but I would like the view as in the runtime I normally use runtime screenshots (also with PLCsim), but if this other way worked it could be more convenient in some situations. |
5/7/2020 11:16 AM | |
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Hello, after searching a lot in simens forum and in google, I haven't found working solution for taking screenshot and saving as image on windows ce panel. I have also tried captce and few others software but didn't work anything. Therefore, I have created my own windows ce application for capturing screen during runtime. Which, I would like to share with you. please find attachemnt. I have keep it very simple. All photos will be saved in the folder "HMIScreenshot" in same directory, where software is located. Now you can place this software in your USB/SD card and call it through "Startprogram" in runtime. If you want to take photos of multiples screen then you can use "Activatescreen" in VBS to call all screen one by one and call HMIScreenshot.exe . For example: ActivateScreen "ScreenName", 0 StartProgram """\Storage card USB\HMIScreenshot.exe""", "", hmiShowNormal, hmiNo Note: If HMIScreenshot.exe doesent work then you need to update compact framwork 2.0 or above. You can update compact framwork using SIMATIC Prosave software. Compact Framework V2.0 is also attached. Please let me know if you face any issues. Regards, Jagdish Sodavadiya AttachmentHMIScreenshotandCFV2.0.zip (892 Downloads) |
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11/15/2020 1:26 AM | |
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Hello Jagdish, I have a TP1200 and first of all I got some warning messages when trying to install CF 2.0, one about signature (easy to override) and the other one saying CF version is not correct for panel WinCE version. Moreover I noticed your CF version is for x86 processor. So i installed CF version 3.5 for ARM processor and apparently everything went fine. The problem is that it looks like "HMIScreenshot" doesn't work, so my two questions are: did you try to run the program with higher CF versions? Is there a specific directory where I must install CF or can I put it wherever I want inside "Windows" directory? Thanks a lot for your support. Massimo AttachmentNETCFv35.wce.armv4.zip (721 Downloads) |
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