Capture Screen (The Express Way in 5 Lines)

Written by Atran, June 21st, 2007

Hello Everyone.
In this article: You will know to capture the screen in 2 ways:
1)- Capture full screen.
2)- Capture region.

Let's Begin:
First make a new Windows Application project.
And make sure your program uses these namespaces:

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using System;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Drawing.Imaging;
using System.Windows.Forms;

Now, we will begin writing the code:
1)- Create a new bitmap object.

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//Bitmap screenBitmap = new Bitmap(int width, int height, PixelFormat);
Bitmap screenBitmap = new Bitmap(1024, 768, PixelFormat.Format32bppArgb);

2)- Create a new rectangle object.

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//screenRegion will grab the size of your current screen.
Rectangle screenRegion = Screen.AllScreens[0].Bounds;

3)- Create a new graphics object.

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Graphics screenGraphics = Graphics.FromImage(screenBitmap);

4)- Copy the image from the screen.

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//screenGraphics will copy the image from the screen.
screenGraphics.CopyFromScreen(screenRegion.Left, screenRegion.Top, 0, 0, screenRegion.Size);

5)- Save the image:

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screenBitmap.Save(@"C:\Screen.jpg", ImageFormat.Jpeg);

Here is the code:

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Bitmap screenBitmap = new Bitmap(1024, 768, PixelFormat.Format32bppArgb);
Rectangle screenRegion = Screen.AllScreens[0].Bounds;
// It will copy the current screep image to the bitmap image.
Graphics screenGraphics = Graphics.FromImage(screenBitmap);
screenGraphics.CopyFromScreen(screenRegion.Left, screenRegion.Top, 0, 0, screenRegion.Size);
screenBitmap.Save(@"c:\test.jpg", ImageFormat.Jpeg);

You can also capture a part of the screen (region):

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/* The Code was:
screenGraphics.CopyFromScreen(screenRegion.Left, screenRegion.Top, 0, 0, screenRegion.Size);
*/
//See the difference.
//screenGraphics.CopyFromScreen(intSourceX, intSourceY......);
screenGraphics.CopyFromScreen(200, 300, 0, 0, screenRegion.Size);

Hope this help you.

4 Comments Posted ( Post your comment )

Vidhura / July 5th, 2007 10:00 AM

Hey Atran

Thanks!

Its nice stuff with good and simple explanation

Atran / July 5th, 2007 10:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Vidhura

Hey Atran

Thanks!

Its nice stuff with good and simple explanation

You're welcome, enjoy.......

Clanguage / July 27th, 2007 08:25 PM

Great tip
this is something that I can use daily with a few modifications.
I do not use C# though so I thought that you would not mind if I posted the VB code

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Imports System
Imports System.drawing
Imports System.Drawing.Imaging
Imports System.Windows.Forms
Dim screenBitmap As New Bitmap(1024, 768, PixelFormat.Format32bppArgb)
Dim screenRegion As Rectangle = Screen.AllScreens(0).Bounds
' It will copy the current screep image to the bitmap image.
Dim screenGraphics As Graphics = Graphics.FromImage(screenBitmap)
screenGraphics.CopyFromScreen(screenRegion.Left, screenRegion.Top, 0, 0, screenRegion.Size)
screenBitmap.Save("c:\test.jpg", ImageFormat.Jpeg)

PKV / July 31st, 2007 12:25 PM

this was really good one!!
Thanx

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