An easy one I think...
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I would like to be able to capture the current image on the screen (equivlent of pressing printscreen) and save it straight to the desktop as either a jpeg (prefferred) or png. This is so simple I can't believe it hasn't been done before in Blitzplus but I can't find anything. Anyone already done this or seen this done before? Thanks, Darkheart |
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gfxGrab = CreateImage(GAME_WIDTH, GAME_HEIGHT) GrabImage gfxGrab,0,0 SaveImage gfxGrab, CurrentDir()+"screenshot.bmp" FreeImage gfxGrab I had trouble getting the print screen key recognised, don't know why, so I used an F Key in the end. Note that the code above only saves it as a bmp. Also it uses CurrentDir(). You can change this to whatever path you want but to find out the current desktop path you probably need to check the registry or call a User32.dll function. The code archives will contain code to let you do this. |
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Wouldnt SaveBuffer(backbuffer()) work also? |
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I guess so, can't remember why I did that. I think it was from a help file actually. |
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Sorry just to make clear I don't want to capture what's going on in the application I want to capture whatever is on the screen at the time, including Windows background, other apps etc. Darkheart |
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Try saving the DesktopBuffer():desk = DesktopBuffer() SaveBuffer(desk,"test.bmp") |
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Ooh, that is good - there isn't one of those in B3D - is it different/separate to front/back buffer? |
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LOL I didn't think it would be *THAT* easy, thanks Beaker, that will teach me to forget to update my docpacs. Darkheart |