Can't 'print screen' in my app
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Hi, I am using C++ and Direct3D9.
In my app I used to be able to press 'print screen' and then quit out of the app and paste the screenshot into paint.
Now all I get when I try print screen is a screenshot that is entirely green. Anyone got any ideas why it would do this?
Is it something to do with my 2d ortho matrix ( D3DXMatrixOrthoOffCenterLH )?
Since the window bound to the d3d device is drawn using hardware acceleration, there's no guarantee that the final rendered image is accessible to GDI at all. Matrices have nothing to do with this problem.
If you want to take a snapshot of the current d3d frame, see IDirect3DDevice9::GetFrontBufferData().
If you want to take a snapshot of the current d3d frame, see IDirect3DDevice9::GetFrontBufferData().
void takeScreenShot(LPCTSTR pDestFile){ D3DDISPLAYMODE displayMode; LPDIRECT3DSURFACE9 pd3dsFront = NULL; // Get the display mode pd3dDevice->GetDisplayMode(0, &displayMode); // Create a surface to hold the front buffer pd3dDevice->CreateOffscreenPlainSurface(displayMode.Width, displayMode.Height, D3DFMT_A8R8G8B8, D3DPOOL_SYSTEMMEM, &pd3dsFront, NULL); // Get the front buffer and save it to a file if( SUCCEEDED( pd3dDevice->GetFrontBufferData(0, pd3dsFront) ) ) D3DXSaveSurfaceToFile(pDestFile, D3DXIFF_BMP, pd3dsFront, NULL, NULL); // Release the surface if( pd3dsFront ) pd3dsFront->Release();}
It can be done without using GetFrontBufferData too. This will work with Direct3D and OpenGL. The only Direct3D code used is SetTransform for the high resolution screen shots.
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Here is the really simple code I use:
LPDIRECT3DSURFACE9 pSurf;pd3dDevice->GetRenderTarget( 0, &pSurf );D3DXSaveSurfaceToFile( L"screenshot.bmp", D3DXIFF_BMP, pSurf, NULL, NULL );pSurf->Release();This topic is closed to new replies.
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