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bbel91

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Screen copy of an area outside of a window.
« on: August 24, 2018, 10:53:48 am »
Hello,
I'm trying to make a copy of an area of the screen under Visual C ++ and with SFML.
The result must be in the form of a memory zone or an array in BMP format.
Do you have links or post to give me, please?
Thank you.

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Re: Screen copy of an area outside of a window.
« Reply #1 on: August 24, 2018, 11:22:50 am »
You can for example:
  • Update a texture from a window
  • CopyToImage the texture to an image
  • Create a new image with the size of the area you want to copy
  • Copy the are from one to the other image
  • Then you can either saveToFile as BMP
  • or getPixelPtr and have access to the data in memory
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