I want to add the ability for the users to capture the current screen in my app and email it. I have a very non-technical user base so I need this to be as simple as possible. I plan to let them click a menu item called Help Me! which will then capture the current Application Screen, hopefully as a jpg or png, and then open Outlook and add the image as an attachment.
I was reading through this post ScreenCapture on Code Project but it is a little old and isn't exactly what I was looking for so I thought I would check if there is a better way of doing this.
How do I get started on this? Is there a library or are the built in capabilities enough?
Thanks!
That post you linked is the right approach, they just made it very complex. You would want to use Graphics.CopyFromScreen
.
Rectangle bounds = this.Bounds;
using(Bitmap ss = new Bitmap(bounds.Width, bounds.Height))
using(Graphics g = Graphics.FromImage(ss))
{
g.CopyFromScreen(this.Location, Point.Empty, bounds.Size);
ss.Save("test.jpg", ImageFormat.Jpeg);
}
Check the Graphics.CopyFromScreen method.
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