Screen capture and HWA/Direct3D help

[Stephen]

For example, "Capture Screen" works fine as it uses a different method to retrieve the content. ...use that in combination with an area, if you use the Window Control object, you can work out the coordinates to capture a specific area within your own application.

stephen1980

[vertigoelectric]

Where is "Capture Screen"? What object is that? Is that also the "Screen capture" object?

[vertigoelectric]

Ah, I've got it figured out. Genius! Thanks for the pointers. One thing, though... I've done the math so that I get the game window without the border/frame, but I still get the menu in there (File, Options, Help). Is there a way to retrieve the height of that menu bar so that I can offset my coordinates?

I know I can "hide" the menu but that's a last resort.

[LB]

Can't you just get the Client Area Position? Works for me.

[vertigoelectric]

It's okay. I've got it figured out for the most part. I don't know why the menu bar wasn't counting on yours but it was counting on mine as part of the client area. Or at least, seemed to be. I pretty much solved this problem by calculating the math so that it it looked for the bottom edge of the window instead of the top, then did a few more little dynamic offsets and it seems to be working okay. I'll know after some beta testing on other systems whether or not the offsets are dynamic enough.

LB: Listen I didn't mean to be such a jerk in chat earlier. However you must understand the frustration when I'm watching something happen and you're over there saying it doesn't happen. Anyway, no hard feelings... on my end anyway.