Fastest screenshot?GDI+?

[AoRaToS]

I would like to take a screenshot of the desktop, but I want it to be as fast as possible, which is the fastest method?

[computergroove]

Hit the "print screen" button on the keyboard. Can you be more specific?

[Richard Robertson]

The fastest is a hardware solution between your graphics card and your monitor.

[AoRaToS]

Sorry for not being specific, what I want is to take a a screenshot every few ms without it being processor hungry, I tried a few things, reading all the pixels takes really long if the resolution is high, I found some GDI+ function that do it faster but the results are mixed, and the quality isn't really good :/

[ProgAndy]

Did you look at the ScreenCapture-UDF? There is a func called _ScreenCapture_Capture

[Richard Robertson]

GDI+ is relatively fast. I once had a real-time screen capture program written in C# that would copy the entire screen, and color it to monochrome. It had a good refresh rate. I didn't have any noticeable lag.

[AoRaToS]

Thanks allot Prog Andy I found that, now I need a way to send a picture through a LAN...Turn it into a string?what would you propose??

[Richard Robertson]

You'll want to compress the image before sending it. A bitmap of a highest color 32 bit per pixel 800x600 screen is 1.83 MB. That will take a little time to send over a network.