Category: Graphics Code  ·  Originally posted June 19, 2008  ·  Last updated February 2, 2011

How to properly capture the screen in VB6

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.

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