From UI to PNG - The Technical Guide to Peakboard Screenshot Automation

Peakboard is designed for applications to happen completely on one physical screen, prefrebly a touch screen. That’s how a typical Peakboard backed industrial application is supposed to work. However it might be necessary sometimes to conserve or send the screen or parts of that outside of the current screen. Typical use cases would be to inform someone else by email or just store the current status of a chart and get back to it the next day (a typical shopfloor management process). In this article we will discuss how to generate a screenshot from our current visualisation and do something with - store it, send it, push it to an API endpoint - whatever the