screen shot

[BoB]

hello;
how do i get a screen shot behind my program , so it dont take a screen shot of my program just the rest of the screen . hope you know what i mean .

[Jop]

This code will get the desktop picture, but I'm not sure if that is what you want.

Private Declare Function PaintDesktop Lib "user32" _
(ByVal hdc As Long) As Long

'To set your form background image to the Windows background, simply call the API like this:

PaintDesktop Form1.hdc

[BoB]

No i mean like take the open windows , but when you do that and have it put in a picture box and then you get your program and it dose somthing wird . so can i get the program behind my program in the ss instead of my program being min and stuff like that . SO can i get a ss of the ss when out my program in the pic but my program still active

[Jop]

Why not minimize it and then restore it after the progress? Or making it temporarily invisible? I know you don't want it, but why not?