screen capture in a scrolling game -help!

[Christina]

Hi people! I need some help here.

I have a scrolling rpg, and I want, on my command, to capture the 100x100 pixel area around my character with the capture object and save it to disk.

I use the following order:
Upon Pressing Key

--> Capture Object
1. set area origin at my character's position minus 50 (X -50,Y-50)
2. set area dimensions to 100,100
3. capture frame area

Problem is, the capture object captures wildly different things, from everywhere on the screen, depending on where my character is.
Instead of capturing the 100x100 area around her, it just captures bits of the game - top left corner, the inventory menu, whatever, depending on where my character is standing.

Is there any way to capture the same area regardless of my character's actual X,Y coordinates?

thank you,
Kisses
christina

PS Also, it isn't fixed if I add Xposition of Left Visible Edge to the Xposition and Yposition of Top Visible Edge. What am I doing wrong?

[LB]

Well I can't see whwr you went wrong. Could you post an example?

[Christina]

sure. here's the code.

code

I've made two pink comments to show you where the actions take place.

When you press space the program stores the screen capture as 123.bmp and immediately loads it as an active picture in front of the player character. You will see that it captures anything it wants, instead of what I'm telling it to capture..

Thank you so much for offering to help

[Yves]

The correct position is X("Fae")-X Left Frame-25 and Y("Fae")-Y Top Frame-50, because the coordinates are relative to the top-left corner of the window in the playfield.

[Christina]

oh Yves thank you so much for going into the trouble!
It works perfectly!
Maybe I should stop trying to be a coder :blush: