Capturing a minimized window, and printing into a form.

[eman]

I am writing a program that captures a minimized game's window and paste it onto my form. I need it to refresh about every 500ms. What would be best way to do this? Any help would be very apriceated.

 

Thanks... :D

[Khaledinho]

For the part of capturing,if you mean screen capture you can use the Windows API.It provides functions for screen captures

Here is an excellent site for Windows API usage:

http://pietschsoft.com/programming/vbapi/ref/

I remember that I read in this the function that can capture the screen

For timing,if you want the capture to be when the window is running,use a timer with an interval value of 500.If you want the capture to be all the time when the system is running you can make it a Windows Service

There is a complete chapter in the Wrox press book (Professional C# Programming about Windows service"

If you want,i can upload the book to rapidshare.de or send it via email

This site:http://babis.homeip.net/computers/ contains the Professional C# Programming,but it is a slow site

Note:Use Flashget to download the file

Good luck

[eman]

I Guess I forgot to mention that I am new to .NET, I am fimilar with VB6. Is there anyway you could explain it alittle more detailed? Thanks...