Yeah. Greg is right. Blitting somehow doesn't restrict itself to the lower level window dc. It takes information from the top level window as well. What I felt was, to somehow update the memory dc after the draw operation. I tried sending WM_PRINT message, which I found in msdn said, it updates the dc. This too doesn't help me. Anymore insights or workarounds to do the job? Thanks

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Hi Can anyone help me capturing a part of the window as a bitmap? Currently, the code i wrote captures the top-lying windows as well. I dont want it to capture them. HGDIOBJ prev = SelectObject(memdc, mybitmap); //Drawing functions. BitBlt( memdc, 0, 0, w, h, sourcedc, SRCCOPY); SelectObject(memdc, prev); Thanks

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