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How to properly capture the screen in VB6

June 19, 2008

 

There are many bad ways to capture the screen in VB6 (i.e. to copy the image on your monitor to a form or picture box), so I wrote this code to demonstrate one of several right ways.  Each of the 4 required API calls is explained in detail.

download Screen Capture Demo (source code only)
download Screen Capture Demo (source code + compiled .exe)
All source code in the above zip file(s) is released under a BSD License.

 

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