I am designing an application under windows NT where I would like to
grab the contents of a window and generate a gif or ppm file.

Under X I usually use " xwd window_id | xwdtoppm  > filename " to
achieve this. How can I   achieve the same effect  under windows NT or
windows 95? Is there a tool that will do the same thing? Is there an
API that gets me the information I need ? (thereby allowing me to build
such a tool?) I am pretty windows naieve so this might be  a pretty
obvious question.

Thank you for your help in advance.

Ranga.

The way I do this manually is to used VNC
(http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/) to mirror the
Windows95/98/NT console over on a Unix box.  Then use
the standard Unix/X11 techniques you describe above
to grab an image of the window.

If you are wondering how you can do this under program
control, on NT, with no Unix box handy, then I have no
clue.  If you find out, please share your findings with
me.

--
D. Richard Hipp -- d...@acm.org -- http://www.hwaci.com/drh/

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There are quite a few utilities along this line for Windows.  MS has
one that's free and comes with source code as Wincap32 on their web
site.

    <Alt> + <PrtScr>        copies the focussed window
                        as a windows-bitmap to clipboard

then you can <Paste> it to MS-Paint to save the bitmap
or to any other program which can write gif's or ppm's.

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Is it wise to trust M$ source code?  I mean do you trust windows? :-)

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As long as you examine it first, and trust it based on your own
knowledge of Windows, you might just about as well trust it as
anything else.  OTOH, even downloading it might involve trusting ME,
which would definitely be unwise.

Yes.  I trust it to provide lots of programmers with jobs, at least
until tomorrow, and probably even sometime past next week.  Especially
in the case of Windows 95 or 98, I trust it to have enough bugs to
keep those programmers VERY busy for years to come...

Call me a cynic but it often often seems like microsoft have deliberately
introduced bugs
just to drive the software industry in a particular direction.  I mean
no-one could write
code that bad accidently could they?  :-)

Good tip. I got hold of wincap (1992 vintage ... could not find the 32 bit
version). I incorporated some of the code I needed and made 32-bit specific
modifications. This enabled me to grab window contents from the command line
and store it as a bmp file. Next I recompiled netpbm (or at least parts of
it) using the cygnus cygwin32 toolkit. This enabled me to go from bmp to ppm
- which can be handled by tk and that is basically what I wanted.

I am willing to share the modified wincap code with the understanding that
neither myself nor NIST makes any guarantees about its correctness and/or
applicability. (blah blah....)

Ranga.

Now where was that nice page about M$, bugs and features ....

aku@bluepeak:/home/aku/ > gc 'Gates;Focus;Bug'
writing results...
aku@bluepeak:/home/aku/ > netscape

Hah.
        http://www.cantrip.org/nobugs.html

Enjoy. Or not.

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Sincerely,
        Andreas Kupries <a.kupr...@westend.com>
                        <http://www.westend.com/~kupries/>
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Flames > /dev/null

Hi,

You can just do ctrl+print-screen and have the image in your
clipboard....

Ron.

I didn't write that!  This thread has been snipped beyond all
recognition.  The original
poster, whoever that was, wanted to know how to do it from TCL and/or
C.  Instead, he got
about fif{*filter*} replies on how to do it from windows.
    How about some bright spark posting info on how to grab a window
handle, get a pointer
to its bitmap and transfer it as required?  And perhaps how to handle
clipboard operations
from your app.
                    Regards,
                                Bruce A.

-dslice

Bruce S. O. Adams wrote in message <36E64E6D.17F60...@rmc-ltd.com>...

#ifdef  __WIN32__
static void Pixmap_to_Clipboard(Pixmap pixmap)
{
    TkWinDrawable *twdPtr = (TkWinDrawable *) pixmap;

    if (twdPtr != NULL) {
        if (twdPtr->bitmap.handle){
            OpenClipboard(NULL);
            EmptyClipboard();
            SetClipboardData(CF_BITMAP, twdPtr->bitmap.handle);
            twdPtr->bitmap.handle=NULL;
            CloseClipboard();
            }
        }
#endif

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Robin Becker