take a screenshot and crop image

[vishal1082]

i want to take a screenshot of user's desktop, just like printscreen does and crop it, because i just want the system tray of taskbar is it possible? (system tray == notification area)

[GaryTexmo]

Vishal, have a look at the discussion in this thread. This person is having trouble taking screenshots of a DirectX application, but their first post shows code that should take a screenshot of the desktop.

As for cropping, a google search turned out this lovely little block of code for you.

public Bitmap CropBitmap(Bitmap bitmap, int cropX, int cropY, int cropWidth, int cropHeight)
{
  Rectangle rect = new Rectangle(cropX, cropY, cropWidth, cropHeight);
  Bitmap cropped = bitmap.Clone(rect, bitmap.PixelFormat);
  return cropped;
}

http://www.nerdydork.com/crop-an-ima...-or-vbnet.html

[vishal1082]

thanks again :D works!