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DarkBASIC Professional Discussion / Is there any way to get screen data from other windows?

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w00t
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hi all, Is there a function in darkbasic to get a pointer to other windows screen data so you could copy data from there into darkbasic? I was going to post this in newcomers section but its not really a basic problem i think... Any ideas appreciated
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Andy Igoe
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Posted: 11th Mar 2003 16:26
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Do you meen as image data? Print Screen and then copying the clipboard to an image might work for that.

Or do you meen reading off text? I think that will be the domain of a .dll...

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w00t
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Yea ive tried the print screen method using MrTAOtoads plugin but you cant get the image data from the clipboard to darkbasic, unless you can get a pointer to the clipboard data? Ive been looking at newsgroups for info and you can get the pointer to a directdraw surface which would be ok, so basically in db reserve enough memory, get pointer to surface, copy to db reserved mem, then you can work on it however you want.

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MrTAToad
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Doing that wont be easy - if you get it working properly, I'll add it to my plug-in if you like.

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w00t
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That would be good, just need to copy frame buffer to some db reserved memory that can be worked with, if thats the best way of doing it?

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Also i assume you would need a function to return the width,height,pitch,depth of the frame buffer to reserve the right amount of memory in db?

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w00t
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Well i just dont have the knoweledge to do it Anybody have an easier/better way of doing it plz? Any way of gettin the clipboard data into db then i could just use MrTAToads plugin thing.

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MrTAToad
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the clipboard commands are only for text - I dont intend to upgrade the commands to handle anything else, I'm afraid.

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Ahh well nps, u did say it was difficult to do.

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