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From: "Rad" <rad@cyberdude.com>
Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.programming.2d_graphics
Subject: Re: Screenshots
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1998 18:57:07 -0000
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Thanks James, I'll take a look at it, but do I have to include it within my
code? I'd prefer to just be able run my programs and capture a screenshot
externally.

Rad.
rad@cyberdude.com
http://www.netyaroze-europe.com/~radpsx


James Rutherford wrote in message <368AEC38.821147F7@writeme.com>...
>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/
>