Print Screen

[rifter1818]

I want to create a texture from the screen sortof like clicking print screen copies an image to the clip board only i want to make a texture of it to play with,.. any advice?

 

[Menge]

hrm... you could both use the BitBlt API function OR simply send the PrintScreen key through code and grab the bitmap from the clipboard

 

[rifter1818]

Could you include a code example please

Visual basic preferably but anything will do

 

[Menge]

then one (kind of dirty way) to do it is send the printscreen key and afterwards copy the screenshot from the clipboard.

 

[rifter1818]

Code Example PLEASE. How do i a) send the print key from code and b) copy the image from the clip board in code

 

[Menge]

to send the printscreen key

SendKeys.SendWait("+{PRTSC}");

to retrieve a Bitmap from the clipboard, you can do this

Bitmap screen=(Bitmap)Clipboard.GetDataObject().GetData(typeof(Bitmap));

now all you need to do is put it together with the right error checking

 

[rifter1818]

k

Thank you very much from there i can easily make a texture from the bitmap and then add some hopefully cool effects. Thanks everyone for another job well done.