How can I get a bitmap of a Form using .NET 1.1 (ie NO CopyFromScreen)

[Paul_Madden via DotNetMonster.com]

How can I get a bitmap of a Form using .NET 1.1 (ie NO CopyFromScreen)

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[Stoitcho Goutsev \(100\)]

Paul,

if you want to implement .NET 2.0's Control.DrawToBitmap
you can do this only by using PInvoke and win32 API.
There are two approaches: sending WM_PRINT message and calling PrintWindow
API.
Both produce similar results, even though they do it in a different way and
both has issues. DrawToBitmap uses WM_PRINT, but I personally found that
PrintWindow produces better results. There are controls such as richeditbox
that doesn't print itself when using either of those methods.

As far as it goes for Graphics.CopyFromScreen you also need to resort to
windows API and use BitBlt method + some of the API methods for obtaining a
device context (HDC) such as GetDC.
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Stoitcho Goutsev (100)
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How can I get a bitmap of a Form using .NET 1.1 (ie NO CopyFromScreen)

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[PIEBALD]

There's always good ol' PrintScreen.
I don't have the code with me, but I've written a screen-grabber app that
sends a PrintScreen key press and gets the bitmap from the clipboard. My app
then crops the bitmap based on its size and position. That could be useful.

[Stoitcho Goutsev \(100\)]

The worst think to do is to use the clipboard without the knoledge of the
user. The user needs to be the one that initiates all clipboard operation.
I'll be really frustrated if I keep some data in the clipboard and when the
time for paste comes to find out that there is some bitmap that I know
nothing about.
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"PIEBALD" <PI*****@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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There's always good ol' PrintScreen.
I don't have the code with me, but I've written a screen-grabber app that
sends a PrintScreen key press and gets the bitmap from the clipboard. My
app
then crops the bitmap based on its size and position. That could be
useful.

[PIEBALD]

> The worst think to do is to use the clipboard without the knoledge of the

user. The user needs to be the one that initiates all clipboard operation.
I'll be really frustrated if I keep some data in the clipboard and when the
time for paste comes to find out that there is some bitmap that I know
nothing about.

You have to weigh the benefits against the costs. If the application is for
only personal/internal use then why go to the trouble of a more difficult
solution?

other than for educational purposes.

[PIEBALD]

Also, I wrote the thing in V1.1 and hadn't heard of CopyFromScreen until now
so I'll go back and try that.