Download Barrys Screen Capture

This article demonstrates the methods of capturing different portions of the screen. You have the facility to then save the captured image to a file.

The idea for developing the article came to me when I had downloaded such a utility for capturing screen-shots for use in my articles like this one, on the Internet, but unfortunately the downloaded utility had too many nagging screens and obviously for a no-nags version I had to pay which I cannot afford. So the only way out was to develop one on my own, the MSDN sample WINCAP could have served the purpose but the source was not available on the CD. So I started developing the article in MFC using the Win32 sample provided on the MSDN CD (WinCap). And also so as to be able to Capture portions of the screen which I had done sometime ago in Visual Basic, since screen capture in Visual Basic is much easier and code for this is available in the Knowledge Base section of Visual Basic.

Features:

* Capture the Desktop
* Capture a window
* Capture a client area
* Capture a control (e.g. Button)
* Track the X and Y coordinates of the captured image