Color on Click

[Bill English]

Is it possible to get the color of the screen at the cursor's current
position?

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[Bob Powell [MVP]]

You can capture the screen using interop and the BitBlt. This is explained
in the GDI+ FAQ.

You could extrapolate from that code to capture a 1 pixel bitmap from the
mouse's screen position and then interrogate the colour using the GetPixel
method.

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Is it possible to get the color of the screen at the cursor's current
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