Print Screen

Hi guys, is there a way to possibly take images of the screen by the button Print Screen every 0.5 seconds and save it as an image file (any image file) in a specific folder. Please reply.
Khanjan

Put a timer on your form and set it to the internval that you desire. This will take a screen shot of your screen and save it to a bitmap file with each file having its own individual timestamp.

VB Code:

Option Explicit
 
Private Declare Sub keybd_event Lib "user32" (ByVal bVk As Byte, ByVal bScan As Byte, _
ByVal dwFlags As Long, ByVal dwExtraInfo As Long)
 
Private Const VK_SNAPSHOT = &H2C
 
'Author: Dalin Nie (Edited by Matthew Gates)
'Origin: [url]http://www.vbcode.com[/url]
'Purpose: This function capture the screen or the active window of your
'computer. Programmatically and save it to a .bmp file.
'VB version: VB 6,VB 5,VB 4/32
'Save Screen As Bitmap
Private Function SaveScreen(ByVal pstrFileName As String) As Boolean
 
'To get the Entire Screen
Call keybd_event(vbKeySnapshot, 1, 0, 0)
 
'To get the Active Window
'Call keybd_event(vbKeySnapshot, 0, 0, 0)
 
SavePicture Clipboard.GetData(vbCFBitmap), pstrFileName
 
SaveScreen = True
 
End Function
 
Private Sub Timer1_Timer()
Call SaveScreen("C:\MyFolder\Screenshot" & Format(Now, "hhmmss") & ".bmp")
End Sub

Please help!!!!! When I use this code in excel base vb in my remote desktop - its not capturing the image , but opening a popup window that gives the save as option. Another messeg window comes along stating "Printing the screen print to Microsoft office document Image writer on Ne00. - A product of american system.'

please help. the code I used for taking screen shot is as follows:



Option Explicit Private Declare Sub keybd_event Lib "user32" (ByVal bVk As Byte, ByVal bScan As Byte, _ByVal dwFlags As Long, ByVal dwExtraInfo As Long) Private Const VK_SNAPSHOT = &H2C

private sub commandbutton_click()

Call keybd_event(vbKeySnapshot, 1, 0, 0)


End sub