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DarkBASIC Professional Discussion / Can you capture sprites in a screenshot?

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Lost in Thought
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Posted: 10th May 2004 10:59
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I've searched the forums and seen this question 3 times in past threads. Is there a way to capture sprites in a screenshot using DBP?
I know there are 3rd party programs that can do it I was just wondering If someone found a way to do it in DBP. Thank you.

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Posted: 10th May 2004 11:06
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Not in DBPro - but you could always save the images instead.


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I never thought of that. I'll see what I can do with that. Is there a way to access the windows clipboard information from DBP? I wonder if you could make a picture from that with DBP.

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You can only read/write stings to the clipboard from DBPro unfortunately.


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What do you get if you press the print screen key and use DBPro to read the clipboard information, what will DBP return?

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If you have the backsave to your sprites disabled and the backdrop disabled, then you should have a copy of the bitmap immediately after the sync command returns.

If you save it at this point you'll have a valid snapshot.

You'll need to try this with the print-screen button to see if it correctly captures your sprites.

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Posted: 10th May 2004 17:29
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Thank you for the responses.
@TheCyborg It returns nothing as it is not a string stored in the clipboard.
@IanM Print screen captures the sprites o.k. even when DBP doesn't but i'll try it.

I'll see what I can come up with when I get home from work.

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