Quantumfusion

Can anyone tell me how do i take a screenshot of current screen and display it in a picture box. Also how do i save the screenshot. Thanks

Niv

It depends on what you are using for your graphics but a very easy way to do it is to use these functions.

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Public Declare Function GetDesktopWindow Lib "user32" Alias "GetDesktopWindow" () As Long

Public Declare Function GetDC Lib "user32" Alias "GetDC" (ByVal hwnd As Long) As Long

Public Declare Function ReleaseDC Lib "user32" Alias "ReleaseDC" (ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal hdc As Long) As Long
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and use BitBlt

the DC you use in the BitBlt function will be the value of
GetDC(GetDesktopWindow)


If I remember correctly this may only show the desktop.. but I'm not sure.. been a while. Anyway, that should put you in the right direction.

Don't forget to ReleaseDC after you use it.

Niv

iane87

Use SendKeys ("{PRTSC}") to get the screen on the clipboard then write Clipboard.GetData to a file.

alt_255

the BitBlt way is a lot easier and more reliable.

But i will suggest using StretchBlt intead of BitBlt, because you can resize it. And you don't need to use ReleaseDC.