I have asked something before

[abdul]

I have asked similiar question before but did not get a good answer.

I am trying to take a screenshot of the desktop and it is working fine when I put that on my main window. But I want to put that in a spicifc place like a picture box. But there is no picture box in C++ so which control do I use to copy the contents of dektop onto that control?

And then after that, I want to save the contents on that control to a file as a bitmap. Who do I do that?

[kedaman]

You can simply bitblt over the screen DC to a memory DC and then onto any window's DC. for saving, I've made a save algoritm, i'll see if i can find it

[Vlatko]

If you are using a dialog then just draw a oic box on it.

[Megatron]

If you want to use a control, then use a Static control, otherwise, but I strongly agree with kedaman that you should use a memory DC.

[abdul]

So if I use the memory DC but when I still want to show the screenshot to the user before saving, then I need a kind of contro, right? So the static control will work and do I need to subclass it to recieve a WM_PAINT message, or does it never recieve WM_PAINT message?