Taking screenshot from the flexpendant

KSP

Hi all,

 

I am developing a PC SDK application that connects to the robot controller.

Now I want to implement a function that takes a screenshot from the flexpendant and shows it in my application (kind of the same idea as the FlexPendant Viewer in RobotStudio).

 

Now I have some documentation (not sure if the documentation is old / correct) that the FlexPendant viewer is using a command prompt application FPCommand with the parameter -ps. This takes a screenshot from the flexpendant and stores it so it can be read from the controller.

 

Is there a way to implement this functionality?

 

Thanks in advance

John Wiberg

Hi KSP,

 

Well... I asked the developer who did the FlexPendant Viewer functionality. It's based on a RobAPI command.

For that to work you would need to setup a whole RobAPI communication base. Something which we would definately discourage since you can seriously ruin the controller that way.

If you really want to know the RobAPI commands etc you would have to go through the normal ABB support channel and show some credentials that you know how to use RobAPI correctly.

 

Maybe a better long term solution would be to pop over to the UpFeed and ask for such functionality to be implimented into the PC SDK instead?

That way you'd get a safe and easily implementable function.