LEADTOOLS Screen Capture C API Introduction

Summary

The LEADTOOLS Screen Capture C API functions enable your applications to capture images that can be used with any of the LEADTOOLS image processing functions, and save them to any of the 150+ image file formats  that LEAD supports.

Key Features

With the LEADTOOLS Screen Capture feature you can capture the:

• Entire screen
• Selected area of the screen in a wide array of shapes such as:
  • Triangle
  • Rectangle
  • Rounded rectangle
  • Ellipse
  • Polygon
  • Freehand
• Active window
• Menu under cursor: capture drop-down and cascading menus from Windows programs.
• Window under cursor (button, tool bar, icon, or client area)
• Selected object
• Mouse cursor
• Desktop Wallpaper
• Bitmap, Icon and Cursor images from Windows EXE and DLL files

Options include:

• Multi-capture with callback
• Hot Keys
• Time interval between captures

Supported Environments

See Also

Reference

API Overview

Getting Started

Implementing Screen Capture

Summary of Supported Image File Formats

Version History

LEADTOOLS Screen Capture C API Changes