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Bill Fuller - 04 Mar 2008 07:04 GMT

I am wondering if there is a way to capture an image of a running Windows
Application when the user hits a special key sequence to bring up a
"comments" dialog to be used during testing of a new app. This feature would
be cached into a central database along with the comments so that we will
have a picture of what the tester was seeing when opening up the comments
dialogue.

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Peter Duniho - 04 Mar 2008 07:39 GMT

> I am wondering if there is a way to capture an image of a running Windows
> Application when the user hits a special key sequence to bring up a
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> have a picture of what the tester was seeing when opening up the comments
> dialogue.

You could use the Control.DrawToBitmap() method to save a bitmap of any
open forms (you'd have to call it once per form).

As far as the "special key sequence" goes, that's just straight input
handling. I assume you don't actually need help with that.

Pete

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Adam Benson - 04 Mar 2008 11:14 GMT

Products like Cam Studio (http://camstudio.org/) record an AVI of what's on
the desktop.

There may be a product out there with an API that you could hook into. I
don't know of one (because I've never looked for such a beast) but it would
be worth a few minutes of your time on a search engine.

HTH,

Adam.

>I am wondering if there is a way to capture an image of a running Windows
>Application when the user hits a special key sequence to bring up a
>"comments" dialog to be used during testing of a new app. This feature
>would be cached into a central database along with the comments so that we
>will have a picture of what the tester was seeing when opening up the
>comments dialogue.

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