Capture current form as an Image in VB6

[Giraffe69]

This must be really easy to do(!) but I just cant get it to work!!

I want to grab the current active visible form (a regular VB form I've created), controls and all, as an image so I can shove it in a picture box an another form.

I've found lots of code for grabbing the entire desktop, but I dont want it all and I'm getting tangled in knots trying to select only my form's part of the desktop. So I figure there must be a way to grab only the current form?

I've tried using "StretchBlt" but cant get the parameters right!

Any help would be really appreciated!!!

 

[strongm]

This forum has illustrated several techniques for this.

The two easiest are probably exemplified by my code most recently posted in thread222-1176867 and Hypetia's code in thread222-912111

 

[Giraffe69]

thanks Strongm, that works a treat!

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