Dear Will:

After a lot of trying, I gave up on this attempt, and went to FXTools Gold.
This ActiveX control has pretty good functionality, and does alllow you to
grab a frame.

Yours,

Don

Donald S. Resnick, Ph.D.
President, 20/20 Software
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Stamford, CT 06902-4543

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----- Original Message -----
From: Will <w@h...>
To: professional vb <pro_vb@p...>
Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2001 10:12 AM
Subject: [pro_vb] Help with screen grabbing


> I use a number of different techniques to grab parts of the desktop as a
> bitmap image, mostly Win API calls, but there is also a dll I use. None of
> them will capture the image in a Microsoft Media Player window. It just
> comes up as a black square. I assume it has something to do with DirectX.
>
> Does anyone have a solution for this problem?
>
> Can anyone point me to an information source or mailing list where I might
> find some help with this problem?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Will
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