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Take a Screen Shot of an Inactive Window - Using PrintWindow API from Delphi

Monday April 28, 2008
in Delphi TIPS :: Taking a screen shot of a window using Delphi code is rather easy. A screen shot (screen capture) is a copy of the screen's contents that can be saved as a graphics file or displayed in a graphics "aware" control, for example TImage.
In most cases you will want to take a screen shot of the active window or the Windows Desktop.

What if you need to do a screen capture of all the running applications - most of them will be inactive and not visible to the user?

Read the full article to learn how to Take a Screen Shot of an Inactive Window - Using PrintWindow API from Delphi

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