by Dalin Nie (5 Submissions)
Category: Windows API Call/Explanation
Compatability: Visual Basic 4.0 (32-bit)
Difficulty: Unknown Difficulty
Originally Published: Mon 19th April 1999
Date Added: Mon 8th February 2021
Rating: 
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This function capture the screen or the active window of your computer Programmatically and save it to a .bmp file. This allows you to get
VBcoders
Private Declare Sub keybd_event Lib "user32" (ByVal bVk As Byte, ByVal bScan As Byte, _
ByVal dwFlags As Long, ByVal dwExtraInfo As Long)
Public Function fSaveGuiToFile(ByVal theFile As String) As Boolean
' Name: fSaveGuiToFile
' Author: Dalin Nie
' Written: 4/2/99
' Purpose:
' This procedure will Capture the Screen or the active window of your Computer and Save it as
' a .bmp file
' Input:
' theFile file Name with path, where you want the .bmp to be saved
'
' Output:
' True if successful
'
Dim lString As String
On Error goto Trap
'Check if the File Exist
If Dir(theFile) <> "" Then Exit Function
'To get the Entire Screen
Call keybd_event(vbKeySnapshot, 1, 0, 0)
'To get the Active Window
'Call keybd_event(vbKeySnapshot, 0, 0, 0)
SavePicture Clipboard.GetData(vbCFBitmap), theFile
fSaveGuiToFile = True
Exit Function
Trap:
'Error handling
MsgBox "Error Occured in fSaveGuiToFile. Error #: " & Err.Number & ", " & Err.Description
End Function
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