Grabbing the screen image

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chwaga

(Posted 2008) [#1]

Is it possible to grab the image on the screen and make it an image in blitz3D, so I could make the background image of a game the image on the screen the moment the program was launched (before the big black window appears)? I saw this in screensavers, but it may have been done in bmax, is this possible for b3d?

Jasu	(Posted 2008) [#2]

Do you mean like

img=CreateImage(GraphicsWidth(),GraphicsHeight())
CopyRect(0,0,GraphicsWidth(),GraphicsHeight(),0,0,BackBuffer(),ImageBuffer(img)) ; or use FrontBuffer() instead of BackBuffer()

Naughty Alien

(Posted 2008) [#3]

SaveBuffer(FrontBuffer(),"screenshot.bmp")

Buggy

(Posted 2008) [#4]

I think he means like the desktop image. I don't think that's possible in Blitz, is it?

chwaga

(Posted 2008) [#5]

What buggy says

chwaga

(Posted 2008) [#6]

hmm...so if b3d can't do that, is there a way to load the desktop background image?

mtnhome3d

(Posted 2008) [#7]

i think b+ can, not sure though. look in the archives