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From: James Rutherford <hexheroes@writeme.com>
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Subject: Re: Screenshots
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1998 03:15:04 +0000
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Scott Cartier wrote:

> Rad,
>
> I've done it two ways.  I started out by just StoreImageing the
> display portion of VRAM to main memory.  Then when you quit your
> program you can use SIOCONS to download that chunk of memory to your
> PC.  I stopped doing this because it requires a rather large memory
> footprint just for the screenshot (600k for a single hi-res image).

There's a library for doing the 'large footprint' thang on my homepage
(if you ain't spotted it already...). It'll snapshot the currently
displayed portion of the screen and make it a valid TIM image to be
downloaded using SIOCONS. You can then convert it to BMP with TIMUTIL.

James
http://www.netyaroze-europe.com/~mrfrosty/