Screen Capture Object

[Jarzka]

Is it possible to capture the whole frame area (not only the area I can see in the window) if the frame is larger than the window?

[Francois]

No, you are limited to what is displayed.

[xyzzy]

actually you can, if you use the Window Control object to resize the frame window to the size of the frame

afterwards you'll probably want to resize it back to the original size, especially if you need scrolling (because MMF thinks the window is the size of the frame and won't let you scroll)

but Francois is still correct, it'll only capture what is displayed, but with this method, a good portion of what's "displayed" is actually outside the window

[Jarzka]

xyzzy: I think this won't work. I resized window to the size of the frame, captured frame and it only captured 640x480 even the size of the frame is 1280x1024.

I would like to do this because I would like to take a screenshot from my huge level and make a preview image from it.

[uprize]

just take several screenshots and put them together in photoshop.

[Jarzka]

No, I'm not going to take several screenshots from area like 3000x3000 or 5000x5000 and by the way I don't have Photoshop...

[xyzzy]

xyzzy: I think this won't work. I resized window to the size of the frame, captured frame and it only captured 640x480 even the size of the frame is 1280x1024.

I would like to do this because I would like to take a screenshot from my huge level and make a preview image from it.

did you do something similar to this?

that works fine for me

[Jarzka]

Hmm, that works fine. I'm not sure what I did wrong but thanks

EDIT: Wait I have a problem... I check it again

EDIT 2: Here is my application:
http://www.ferror.net/temp/scrncap_problem.mfa
and it doesn't work (try to paste the screenshot to Paint)?

EDIT 3: Oh, the problem is solved if I set
Start of the frame -> Set width/height of frame window...