Taking a picture.....

yeah.... how would you take a picture of the screen (through code) like if you press the Prnt Scrn button on your key bord it will take a picture of your screen but how would you do that through code

I don't know much about .NET. In VB6 you'd use the GetDesktopWindow API and BitBlt.

BitBlt's equivalent in .NET is System.Drawing.Graphics.DrawImage or so I'm told.

could you give me an example of how to use that..... :p

Why don't you look it up in MSDN? It will have a code example too!

alright.... i just thought that asking it here would be easy and i would get a better response.....

yeah... i couldnt find how to take a picture through code

Well, it is pretty simple to find.

You should never post in the forums because "it is easier". You should always look first.

Check out the command: SendKeys.Send("{PRTSC}")

;)

alright thats cool... so it save the picture to the clip board..... is there a way to just have the picture box display the picture that it took without saving it to a file first?

oh yeah and how can you change it so i takes a picture of everything on the screen and not just the selected window.....

i tried:

Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click

SendKeys.Send("{PRTSC}")
PictureBox1.Image = Clipboard.GetDataObject
End Sub

but the picturebox1.image.... had an error

ok i got it to work but you have to press the button (because the command: SendKeys.Send("{PRTSC}") only take a picture of the current window whihc i dont want (i want the whole screen)) but anyways i got it to save to a file.... so if you can help me take a picture of the WHOLE screen that would be much appresiated and also i need to get how big the bitmap picture is (length X width)

nvm i figured it out :D