Capturing a Picturebox in Windows 8
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I have the following code which works on windows 7 but when I run my app on windows 8 I just get a black box. I am using VB6 and have seen several capture submissions here but they all do the same thing (or at least the several I have tried. Here is my code
Public Function CaptureWindow(ByVal hWndSrc As Long, ByVal Client As Boolean, ByVal LeftSrc As Long, ByVal TopSrc As Long, ByVal WidthSrc As Long, ByVal HeightSrc As Long) As Picture
Dim hDCMemory As Long Dim hBmp As Long Dim hBmpPrev As Long Dim hDCSrc As Long Dim hPal As Long Dim hPalPrev As Long Dim RasterCapsScrn As Long Dim HasPaletteScrn As Long Dim PaletteSizeScrn As Long Dim LogPal As LOGPALETTE On Error Resume Next If Client Then hDCSrc = GetDC(hWndSrc) Else hDCSrc = GetWindowDC(hWndSrc) End If hDCMemory = CreateCompatibleDC(hDCSrc) hBmp = CreateCompatibleBitmap(hDCSrc, WidthSrc, HeightSrc) hBmpPrev = SelectObject(hDCMemory, hBmp) RasterCapsScrn = GetDeviceCaps(hDCSrc, RASTERCAPS) HasPaletteScrn = RasterCapsScrn And RC\_PALETTE PaletteSizeScrn = GetDeviceCaps(hDCSrc, SIZEPALETTE) If HasPaletteScrn And (PaletteSizeScrn = 256) Then LogPal.palVersion = &H300 LogPal.palNumEntries = 256 GetSystemPaletteEntries hDCSrc, 0, 256, LogPal.palPalEntry(0) hPal = CreatePalette(LogPal) hPalPrev = SelectPalette(hDCMemory, hPal, 0) RealizePalette hDCMemory End If BitBlt hDCMemory, 0, 0, WidthSrc, HeightSrc, hDCSrc, LeftSrc, TopSrc, vbSrcCopy hBmp = SelectObject(hDCMemory, hBmpPrev) If HasPaletteScrn And (PaletteSizeScrn = 256) Then hPal = SelectPalette(hDCMemory, hPalPrev, 0) End If DeleteDC hDCMemory ReleaseDC hWndSrc, hDCSrc Set CaptureWindow = CreateBitmapPicture(hBmp, hPal)End Function
Any help in changing or making it work on windows 7 & 8 is much appreciated
The problem you're going to have asking questions about VB6 is that very few people still have it installed to test the code and come up with a solution! This is going to be true at ANY forum, unless it's specifically dedicated to VB6.
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The problem you're going to have asking questions about VB6 is that very few people still have it installed to test the code and come up with a solution! This is going to be true at ANY forum, unless it's specifically dedicated to VB6.
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There's nothing wrong with asking questions. But you need to understand that using a programming language that is years out of date is going to be difficult for people to answer. Also, that the later versions of Windows use features that VB6 was never designed to handle.
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There's nothing wrong with asking questions. But you need to understand that using a programming language that is years out of date is going to be difficult for people to answer. Also, that the later versions of Windows use features that VB6 was never designed to handle.
I understand about it being out of date. I also know there are a lot of people still programming in VB6. When a whole product works except for 1 feature it is difficult to justify the cost of totally re writing an app. I feel like I asked a simple question just to get bashed because of the language. If people do not have an answer why be little someone for asking a question.
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I understand about it being out of date. I also know there are a lot of people still programming in VB6. When a whole product works except for 1 feature it is difficult to justify the cost of totally re writing an app. I feel like I asked a simple question just to get bashed because of the language. If people do not have an answer why be little someone for asking a question.
gwittlock wrote:
why be little someone for asking a question.
No one has belittled you. We are just trying to get you to understand that VB6 is so long out of support that almost no one (particularly on this forum) uses it any more. The problem you are seeing may well be due to the fact that you are trying to use very old libraries and code on a much later OS which uses many new features. I have given you one suggestion to try and isolate whether the problem is definitely due to VB6, and you could save some time by trying it.
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gwittlock wrote:
why be little someone for asking a question.
No one has belittled you. We are just trying to get you to understand that VB6 is so long out of support that almost no one (particularly on this forum) uses it any more. The problem you are seeing may well be due to the fact that you are trying to use very old libraries and code on a much later OS which uses many new features. I have given you one suggestion to try and isolate whether the problem is definitely due to VB6, and you could save some time by trying it.
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I understand about it being out of date. I also know there are a lot of people still programming in VB6. When a whole product works except for 1 feature it is difficult to justify the cost of totally re writing an app. I feel like I asked a simple question just to get bashed because of the language. If people do not have an answer why be little someone for asking a question.
gwittlock wrote:
just to get bashed because of the language
I don't think any of us were belittling you, we have all used VB6 in the past, I doubt the VB6 is your choice and I can understand supporting legacy code. While it maybe a single feature that has failed now the problem is only going to get worse as the OS moves forward and you are stuck in the 90s, alright early 00s. You should have had a migration plan in place 10 years ago if it is part of your core business (millions of lines of code indicates it is a major commitment). To give you some perspective, MS have announced the sun setting of Silverlight in 2020 (I think) we are looking at rewriting 34 applications into either MVC or WPF and yeah possibly as much as 1m LOC.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
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I never said "don't ask questions". I just told you why you're going to have a hard time getting an answer to it. It's not just "a simple question".
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I never said "don't ask questions". I just told you why you're going to have a hard time getting an answer to it. It's not just "a simple question".
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Dave KreskowiakI want to thank everyone for their responses. As a matter of fact Richard has helped me out before with I question I asked about .net and I greatly appreciate it. I do program in .net and have done so for awhile. All of may main products have be upgraded as some suggested here. I do believe my question was detailed, I provided the particular code that I believed was the issue and did explain the issue I was having. It is probably my fault for this question getting off track. Just as much as ask the right question, answering the question should be just as important. If someone has an answer that is great. That is what these forums are for IMO anyways. Saying you should upgrade the code to .net doesn't answer the question (at least I do not think so because that is certainly the way to go. If you can justify the cost VS benefit). Maybe I asked it in the wrong forum. I agreed that programming in VB6 was not the greatest but it is what I had to work with. I was hoping that someone else had encounter the same issue. Here another way of looking at it. You have lived in your house for 10 years and you discover a leak in your plumbing. Now the plumbing is not the latest and greatest technology. Do you replace all of your plumbing? Do you say that the plumbing is 10 years old so you should buy a new house? Of course not. (No sarcasm intended here. Just trying to relay an analogy). You just fix the leak I am sure. As I said this question got a little off track, so again I want to thank everyone for their input it is always appreciated
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I want to thank everyone for their responses. As a matter of fact Richard has helped me out before with I question I asked about .net and I greatly appreciate it. I do program in .net and have done so for awhile. All of may main products have be upgraded as some suggested here. I do believe my question was detailed, I provided the particular code that I believed was the issue and did explain the issue I was having. It is probably my fault for this question getting off track. Just as much as ask the right question, answering the question should be just as important. If someone has an answer that is great. That is what these forums are for IMO anyways. Saying you should upgrade the code to .net doesn't answer the question (at least I do not think so because that is certainly the way to go. If you can justify the cost VS benefit). Maybe I asked it in the wrong forum. I agreed that programming in VB6 was not the greatest but it is what I had to work with. I was hoping that someone else had encounter the same issue. Here another way of looking at it. You have lived in your house for 10 years and you discover a leak in your plumbing. Now the plumbing is not the latest and greatest technology. Do you replace all of your plumbing? Do you say that the plumbing is 10 years old so you should buy a new house? Of course not. (No sarcasm intended here. Just trying to relay an analogy). You just fix the leak I am sure. As I said this question got a little off track, so again I want to thank everyone for their input it is always appreciated
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I have the following code which works on windows 7 but when I run my app on windows 8 I just get a black box. I am using VB6 and have seen several capture submissions here but they all do the same thing (or at least the several I have tried. Here is my code
Public Function CaptureWindow(ByVal hWndSrc As Long, ByVal Client As Boolean, ByVal LeftSrc As Long, ByVal TopSrc As Long, ByVal WidthSrc As Long, ByVal HeightSrc As Long) As Picture
Dim hDCMemory As Long Dim hBmp As Long Dim hBmpPrev As Long Dim hDCSrc As Long Dim hPal As Long Dim hPalPrev As Long Dim RasterCapsScrn As Long Dim HasPaletteScrn As Long Dim PaletteSizeScrn As Long Dim LogPal As LOGPALETTE On Error Resume Next If Client Then hDCSrc = GetDC(hWndSrc) Else hDCSrc = GetWindowDC(hWndSrc) End If hDCMemory = CreateCompatibleDC(hDCSrc) hBmp = CreateCompatibleBitmap(hDCSrc, WidthSrc, HeightSrc) hBmpPrev = SelectObject(hDCMemory, hBmp) RasterCapsScrn = GetDeviceCaps(hDCSrc, RASTERCAPS) HasPaletteScrn = RasterCapsScrn And RC\_PALETTE PaletteSizeScrn = GetDeviceCaps(hDCSrc, SIZEPALETTE) If HasPaletteScrn And (PaletteSizeScrn = 256) Then LogPal.palVersion = &H300 LogPal.palNumEntries = 256 GetSystemPaletteEntries hDCSrc, 0, 256, LogPal.palPalEntry(0) hPal = CreatePalette(LogPal) hPalPrev = SelectPalette(hDCMemory, hPal, 0) RealizePalette hDCMemory End If BitBlt hDCMemory, 0, 0, WidthSrc, HeightSrc, hDCSrc, LeftSrc, TopSrc, vbSrcCopy hBmp = SelectObject(hDCMemory, hBmpPrev) If HasPaletteScrn And (PaletteSizeScrn = 256) Then hPal = SelectPalette(hDCMemory, hPalPrev, 0) End If DeleteDC hDCMemory ReleaseDC hWndSrc, hDCSrc Set CaptureWindow = CreateBitmapPicture(hBmp, hPal)End Function
Any help in changing or making it work on windows 7 & 8 is much appreciated
On the Windows 7 computer that works, have you disabled Aero? It sounds like your code doesn't work with layered windows. Most Google results seem to suggest that you need to pass the
CAPTUREBLTflag (&H40000000L) to theBitBltfunction[^]. It's not declared in theRasterOpenum[^], because VB6 came out a long time before Aero, so you'll need to declare it yourself. My VB's a bit rusty, but something like this should work:BitBlt hDCMemory, 0, 0, WidthSrc, HeightSrc, hDCSrc, LeftSrc, TopSrc, CLng(vbSrcCopy Or &H40000000L)
Edit: Forgot that VB6 uses
Longfor 32-bit integers. :-O
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I want to thank everyone for their responses. As a matter of fact Richard has helped me out before with I question I asked about .net and I greatly appreciate it. I do program in .net and have done so for awhile. All of may main products have be upgraded as some suggested here. I do believe my question was detailed, I provided the particular code that I believed was the issue and did explain the issue I was having. It is probably my fault for this question getting off track. Just as much as ask the right question, answering the question should be just as important. If someone has an answer that is great. That is what these forums are for IMO anyways. Saying you should upgrade the code to .net doesn't answer the question (at least I do not think so because that is certainly the way to go. If you can justify the cost VS benefit). Maybe I asked it in the wrong forum. I agreed that programming in VB6 was not the greatest but it is what I had to work with. I was hoping that someone else had encounter the same issue. Here another way of looking at it. You have lived in your house for 10 years and you discover a leak in your plumbing. Now the plumbing is not the latest and greatest technology. Do you replace all of your plumbing? Do you say that the plumbing is 10 years old so you should buy a new house? Of course not. (No sarcasm intended here. Just trying to relay an analogy). You just fix the leak I am sure. As I said this question got a little off track, so again I want to thank everyone for their input it is always appreciated
gwittlock wrote:
Do you say that the plumbing is 10 years old so you should buy a new house?
You did not even replace a part with something newer when it was broken, you waited until it became obsolete in the industry. So, you already new that your 10 year old house was using an out of date plumbing, and went ahead with it because it is cheaper. You have chosen to become obsolete. And yes, I will keep hammering that point, because someone else "might" think that your argument is valid. It was, 2004. Not in 2014.
Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Here's a simple suggestion: rewrite the above code in VB.NET and see what the results are.
