Introduction

The LEADTOOLS Screen Capture properties, methods, and events are available with the LEADTOOLS COM objects as the LEAD Screen Capture COM object. The properties, methods, and events allow you to perform the following captures: entire screen, active window, selected menu, menu under cursor, selected window object (button, tool bar, icon, or client area), selected area (rectangle, ellipse, triangle, polygon or freehand), wallpaper, mouse pointer, and resource stored in EXE or DLL. Options include multi-capture, Hot Keys, and time interval.

LEADTOOLS Screen Capture COM supports UNICODE. For more information on using the samples in this help file with UNICODE, please refer to A Special Note About UNICODE Support.

Executable demos are included in all LEADTOOLS 32 bit products. The executable demos provide a quick and easy way to evaluate features and performance.

You can use the LEADTOOLS Screen Capture features in any programming environment that supports OLE custom controls, including the following:

Visual C++ 5.0 and later (32-bit)
Visual Basic 5.0 and later (32-bit)

Summary of All Supported Image File Formats

Please note that due to the large size of the PDF files that contain the LEADTOOLS manuals, these files are no longer included in the setup. Instead, these PDF files can be downloaded from our website at http://support.leadtools.com/SupportPortal/DesktopDefault.aspx?tabindex=3&tabid=27.