Placing graphic in clipboard to screen?

Ok...I have found 1000's of pages with info on how to copy the screen, the whole screen and nothing but the screen (well, bitmaps too) to the clipboard. But I can't find a single thing about putting what is in the clipboard BACK onto the screen.

What I did was modify some code which created a transparent bmp and placed it on the clipboard. Now I want to put that modified bmp back onto the screen. How can I do this? Does the clipboard have a DC that I can get somehow?

Ok...I've got it so I can put images to the screen, save them as jpgs and whatnot. Now, my problem lies within starcraft. I'm trying to capture images from the game without using its whole screen capture, but they're coming out extremely dark...like completely black 99% of the time. I tried capturing in Counter-Strike, and the images came out fine.

Any ideas? Is SC just so old and screwed up that it doesn't like external programs capturing it, or what?

Here is the function I use to get an image:

Code:

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Public Function xGet(ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal x As Long, ByVal y As Long, ByVal Width As Long, ByVal Height As Long) As IPictureDisp

    Dim targetDC As Long
    Dim hdc As Long
    Dim tempPict As Long
    Dim oldPict As Long
    Dim wndWidth As Long
    Dim wndHeight As Long
    Dim Pic As PICTDESC
    Dim rcWindow As RECT
    Dim guid(3) As Long
 
    ' provide the right handle for the desktop window
    If hwnd = 0 Then hwnd = GetDesktopWindow
   
    ' get window's size
    GetWindowRect hwnd, rcWindow
    wndWidth = Width
    wndHeight = Height
    ' get window's device context
    targetDC = GetWindowDC(hwnd)
   
    ' create a compatible DC
    hdc = CreateCompatibleDC(targetDC)
 
    ' create a memory bitmap in the DC just created
    ' the has the size of the window we're capturing
    tempPict = CreateCompatibleBitmap(targetDC, wndWidth, wndHeight)
    oldPict = SelectObject(hdc, tempPict)
   
    ' copy the screen image into the DC
    BitBlt hdc, 0, 0, wndWidth, wndHeight, targetDC, x, y, vbSrcCopy
 
  ' set the old DC image and release the DC
    tempPict = SelectObject(hdc, oldPict)
    DeleteDC hdc
    ReleaseDC GetDesktopWindow, targetDC
 
    ' fill the ScreenPic structure
    With Pic
        .cbSize = Len(Pic)
        .pictType = 1          ' means picture
        .hIcon = tempPict
        .hPal = 0          ' (you can omit this of course)
    End With
 
    ' convert the image to a IpictureDisp object
    ' this is the IPicture GUID {7BF80980-BF32-101A-8BBB-00AA00300CAB}
    ' we use an array of Long to initialize it faster
    guid(0) = &H7BF80980
    guid(1) = &H101ABF32
    guid(2) = &HAA00BB8B
    guid(3) = &HAB0C3000
    ' create the picture,
    ' return an object reference right into the function result
    OleCreatePictureIndirect Pic, guid(0), True, xGet

End Function

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Then in my form when the button is pressed, I have this:

Code:

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Private Sub getImage_Click()
   
    Dim wide, high As Long
    Dim x, y As Long
    wide = CLng(txtWidth.Text)
    high = CLng(txtHeight.Text)
    x = CLng(txtX.Text)
    y = CLng(txtY.Text)
    Picture1 = xGet(CLng(lblHandle.Caption), x, y, wide, high)
   
End Sub

Private Sub saveImage_Click()
   
    Dim cdibpic As New cDIBSection
    Dim FileName As String
    FileName = "test.jpg"
    cdibpic.CreateFromPicture Picture1.Picture
    SaveJPG cdibpic, FileName, 70

End Sub

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You would need a lot of APIs to do that (I think :D ), but you can try bitblting it to a picturebox and then using Clipboard.SetData to copy the image :)