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Screen capture ignores some windows

Hello, I am working in MFC and I am trying to capture a bmp of the desktop. I am using GetDC(NULL) to do this but it seems it ignores special skinned windows. It seems to ignore windows drawn with UpdateLayeredWindow. This behaviour seems to be happening only on Vista x64 and XP. I have also tried GetWindowDC with the desktop HWND but t...

How to get a website screenshot in python

Hi all What I want to achieve is to get a website screenshot from any website in python. Env: Linux ...

How to take screen shots from various browsers on a local machine for web development?

I'm looking for a program that has similar functionality to this. It's basically a service that takes snap shots or screen shots of a web page. I need one that runs local for my development behind a corporate firewall. Ideally, it would take screenshots at set intervals to a folder that I specify. Anyone familiar with such a product? Al...

Cursor disappears on bitblt

I have a windows application that scrapes pixels from the screen for recording (in the form of a video) to a custom screen-sharing format. The problem is that on machines using a software cursor, blitting from the screen with SRCCOPY|CAPTUREBLIT (so that layered windows also show up in the image) causes the cursor to blink, as described...

Some way to snap a screenshot and auto upload?

Is there anyway for design purposes that I can have son image host? Currently if I need to share a desktop screenshot I have to: open photoshop Create new image Past screen capture to new image save fore web, sometime resize then upload to an image host Would be nice if there was something lightweight that would do this whole proces...

Black pictures when making screenshots with PrintWindow

I am doing the screen shots of IE using PrintWindow. The problem is that some times I get images with black areas. It may be a whole html content what is black, some times only certain areas are black. The content of the IE is NOT changed between taking shots. What is strange is that on some computers I get black images very oftern, on...

Take screenshot of wpf popup window

I try to take a screenshot of an application writen in WPF and the application is not captured, must I use a special tool to take the screenshot? ...

Create Thumbnail from url using asp.net 2.0

Can any one help me on how to create a thumbnail from a url. when the user saves a link, i want to show the screenshot of the web page as a thumbnail i am using asp.net 2.0 Thank You ...

Capture iPhone screen with status bar included?

I am looking for a way to capture a screenshot on the iPhone with the top status bar included, I am currently using the following code: UIGraphicsBeginImageContext(self.view.bounds.size); //self.view.window.frame.size [self.view.layer renderInContext:UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext()]; UIImage *viewImage = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentI...

imagegrabwindow opens two windows and grabs the wrong screenshot

Hi, I am wanting to grab a screenshot using PHP and on my local Vista machine. For starters I just wanted to get the standard example set up: $browser = new COM("InternetExplorer.Application"); $handle = $browser->HWND; $browser->Visible = true; $browser->Navigate("http://www.libgd.org"); /* Still working? */ while ($browser->Busy) { ...

Detect repainted area of screen in java

I am creating an applet which will do something like screen sharing . For that I am using Robot class to capture screen area . I want to capture the dirty / repainted areas after first screen shot. I think RepaintManager manager can be used for that. but i dont know how can I use it. I am a novice so a java code will be helpfull. thanks ...

Qt MDI app with OpenGL: how to grab a valid screenshot?

I have an MDI app written in Qt. Some of the subwindows include QGLWidgets, i.e., OpenGL contexts. The most salient of these use OpenGL vertex and fragment shaders to visualize their data. I need to programmatically capture a screenshot of the application's main window, including of course all the subwindows that happen to be visible. S...

Is there a webservice/API to grab a screenshot of another website?

I'm writing a webapp where I want to display screenshots of other websites. Is there any free service out there that does this? I'm thinking something RESTful, for example if I wanted to get a screenshot of Google I'd request it with something like this: http://www.somesite.com/screenshot.jpg?url=www.google.com ...

Fast screen capture and video recording

Has anyone worked on capturing screen to video stream (to store in local file or send to network)? I understand how it can be done, and have several test solutions working - but we have trouble achieving decent performance. We need to capture about 4 megapixels screen space of changing text and vector graphics, on a computer where CPU ...

How to take a screencap of a SWF and download it to user's desktop with AS3?

Does anyone know how to take a screencap and download it to desktop in AS3? I know there is a great BitmapDataExporter in AS2 by Mario Klingenman but it doesn't work in AS3. ...

Get noticed when an application tries to take a screenshot (windows)

I need my application to get noticed when another process is trying to do any screen capture. Is that doable ? ...

selenium.captureEntirePageScreenshot does not work but selenium.captureScreenshot works

Hi, I'm running Selenium with TestNG using Eclipse and Selenium RC. I used the command: selenium.captureEntirePageScreenshot("\\test.png",""); but got the following error: com.thoughtworks.selenium.SeleniumException: ERROR: Command execution failure. Please search the forum at http://clearspace.openqa.org for error details from the ...

Collaborating with a designer on the other side of the world

Hi Guys, I am trying to collaborate with a graphic designer sitting on the other side of the world. The only communication medium we have is a phone line. Every time she makes even a minute change to an element on a page, she has to take a screenshot, save it and mail it - all manually till now. As you can guess, this gets downright ir...

GDI+ General Error on ScreenShot

I have the below Exception Extension for my in house Winform App. My problem is that I get a generic GDI+ error on ss.save("C:\\HelpMe.jpg", ImageFormat.Jpeg); It is not every time as it will work and then error out. Sometimes it will work a couple of times in a row. Is this a "locking" issue, possibly? What else should I look at ...

Which Windows (C++) screen capture libraries fit my requirements?

I'm ready to outsource the screen capture functionality of our application, because it's not our core business and I've spent too much time trying to get our code to do all the things I need. Time for a specialist, I think. My requirements, in decreasing order of importance, are below. Does anyone have experience with any commercial or f...