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[Robby]

Hi there,

I need a bit of your help for a Picture Viewer i m coding in VB. It is coming out good so far but i need help for just 1 little thing.. How can i take a snapshot of just my icons...
You wont know wat i mean there but i mean is like how do i just take a snapshot of a small place rather than my whole screen btw i m using this code also found in other tutorials and all but yea i m using this code

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Dim bounds As Rectangle
         Dim screenshot As System.Drawing.Bitmap
        Dim graph As Graphics
        bounds = Screen.PrimaryScreen.Bounds
        screenshot = New System.Drawing.Bitmap(bounds.Width, bounds.Height, System.Drawing.Imaging.PixelFormat.Format32bppArgb)
        graph = Graphics.FromImage(screenshot)
        graph.CopyFromScreen(bounds.X, bounds.Y, 0, 0, bounds.Size, CopyPixelOperation.SourceCopy)
        PictureBox1.Image = screenshot

so yea thats my code for the screen shot full screen but i need it for range only so not full screen but my choice to choose like my desktop icons please help me if u have any idea what i m talking about if not i will try to explain more after i get a answer


thank you for reading

[CodenStuff]

Hello robby1998,


You could do something like this. You would need to add a new form and add the following controls to it:

1 Panel control
3 Button controls

Set the forms transparencykey to any color and set the panel controls background color to the same color.

Button1 captures the screen
Button2 saves the image captured
Button3 clears the current captured image

Then you just drag the form to the area you want to capture, you can click the edge of the form to resize it to the area you wish to capture then just press the capture button. You can download the source-files to this below. Try it out and let me know if its what you wanted.

Download:

CaptureScreen.zip

Happy coding cooll;

[Robby]

thank you very much this helped me really much and now my new picture taker can be finished




Thx Code N Stuff!

[CodenStuff]

Hello,

Your welcome. If you need anymore help just let us know.

Good luck with your project.

[Robby]

ok i will let you know and thx again for the code i really appreciatte it : hehaho;