Capturing Desktop Segment

[Thanathos]

Well i am a Intermediatte Programmer. I Just Started Playing with Graphics and set out to make fake transparency of a form Drawing the Desktop's Piece that the form its actually over.

I did This:

Dim Handle as Long
Dim SourceHdc as Long
Dim XSrc as long
Dim YSrc as Long

XSrc=0
YSrc=0

Handle=GetDesktopWindow()
SourceHdc=GetDc(Handle)
BitBlt PictureBox.Hdc ,0, 0 ,me.width ,me.height ,SourceHdc ,XSrc ,YSrc ,VbSrcCopy

This copies the desktop into a PictureBox
how can i grab only a piece?

I tried Changing the values in XSrc and YSrc but they seem to be in a Weird ScaleMode. I've Played Arround it without success

Any help Will be Apreciated.

Thanxs Thanathos

[gdebacker]

You, know, your code works for me. I changed the SrcX and Y to 50 and 50 and I grabbed the screen starting 50 pixels in and 50 pixels down.

What results are you getting?

Greg

[PsychoMark]

I did the same thing once with a mario character which runs on your task bar

It uses the same technique as the well-known sheep, it draws only the areas of the desktop which it moves to, hard to explain, but if you want I can search for it when I get back home...

[Thanathos]

PsychoMark:

That would be really cool. As soon as you can please send me your code.

Thanxs Mon