Capturing Screenshots

Is anyone else having an issue using the viewtofile command for the latest version of FlexSim?

I've tried to use "viewtofile" but Flexsim crashes every time What issues do you have?

With the p-key I got a screenshot, but the view is always empty (just the window frame).

I'm not 100% sure, but I believe this is an issue with 5.1.2. I've looked at some of my old scripts and I've used viewtofile successfully in the past (5.0.?). I keep getting either an error that warns me of an improper parameter or sometimes a file access (can't delete file) error.

Hi,

There is a bug in the viewtofilecommand (The x size of the window needs to be divisible by 4). The following script (Courtesy of Phil BoBo) will allow you to create a screenshot.


treenode view = sv();
// There is a bug in viewtofile() that causes Flexsim to crash
// unless the xsize of the window is divisible by 4
// This bug is fixed for the next version
while(get(spatialsx(view))%4!=0)
{
set(spatialsx(view),get(spatialsx(view))-1);
windowmove(windowfromnode(view),get(spatialx(view) ), get(spatialy(view)),
get(spatialsx(view)), get(spatialsy(view)));
}
// Create the file path
string startpath = modeldir();
if(stringlen(startpath) < 3) startpath = documentsdir();
string filepath = concat(startpath,"screenshots\\");
int counter = 1;
string filename = concat(filepath, "screenshot", numtostring(counter,0,0), ".bmp");
while(fileexists(filename)&&counter<100)
{
counter++;
filename = concat(filepath, "screenshot", numtostring(counter,0,0), ".bmp");
}
// Take the screenshot
if(stringlen(filename) > 3)
{
repaintview(view);
viewtofile((view), filename);
}

Thanks Mark. I'm guessing I never would've figured that one out on my own.