Here is my code' ============================================== Private Sub CaptureIt() bm = New Bitmap(Screen.PrimaryScreen.Bounds.Width, Screen.PrimaryScreen.Bounds.Height, Drawing.Imaging.PixelFormat.Format32bppArgb) gr = Graphics.FromImage(bm) gr.CopyFromScreen(Screen.PrimaryScreen.Bounds.X, Screen.PrimaryScreen.Bounds.Y, 0, 0, New Size(Screen.PrimaryScreen.Bounds.Width, Screen.PrimaryScreen.Bounds.Height)) End Sub ===================================================== It works fine except for one minor issue. Windows 7 has an analog clock and I have it set to 'Always on top' but my screen capture doesn't see it. The clock is not showing up in the bitmap files. I would like to have it there to document the time of the screen capture.

If there is another way, I would like to know. I can program a clock in the VB program but I want it to be analog. Many have analog been located in the 'net but none found seem to work for me Suggestions welcome.

You are correct, no mouse pointer either and there are other things that are not showing up. I wonder if I really want to solve that one though. I saw that update alerts also did not seem to be in the capture. When my automatic capture is running and I am not nearby, an announcement could pop up and ruin the sequence. It looks like I need to construct one. Unfortunately, a digital one won;t work as well. Looks like I am going to have to start looking at all the clocks on the internet.

Maybe someone here can recommend a simple one. Someone suggested that I could record 43200 shots of an analog clock for ever second of 12 hours and play them sequentially. (-: It would be 720 frames if I did not want seconds.

OMG, that is a piece of work. It is quite a but beyond my scope of VB but I will consider it. I copied and pasted it to a doc file and will look into it. I see that there is a digital clock on your screen. I think that is what your program is (from what little I can understand of it) Is that your program? If so,a it may not work for me.

I need an analog clock because the action on the screen is too fast for an observer to make sense out of digital number display and the analog is much easier to perceive on a glance. Th analog clock shows passage of time far easily than digital.

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I captured 70 hours in screens 15 minute apart. I tried a digital clock already. That is what got me into all this in the first place.

The analog clock provided by MS7 is exactly what I want (It looks like an old school clock: plain, simple with high contrast.) The problem is that it is not captured in my method of grabbing the image of the screen. Neither is the cursor. Bizarre enough, one of those ITunes update announcements boldly shows right there in the center of the screen and it captures in my frames very well to ruin a good sequence! )-: Why is it that that gets a high visual priority but when I go NEW/MSWordDocument I have to move everything off the screen to figure where Microsoft decided to place it? Ah but I ramble.

OK, that is getting there. It looks like that opacity night be controllable. For this application, I need stark contrast.I am going to presume that it is in there to adjust.

The only problem with using software this far beyond my scope of VB is that if I screw it up, I will never be able to get it back. I am apt to get in there to tweak it to learn a few things on how it works. I wonder what happens when I do this. It is after I get a few things custom designed is when I do something and it all crashes. But, Thank you very much, I really appreciate your code. 2 errors: Error 1 Attribute specifier is not a complete statement. Use a line continuation to apply the attribute to the following statement.

C: Users Steve AppData Local Temporary Projects AnalogClock Form1.Designer.vb 23 46 AnalogClock The line is: _ It looks like the _ suggests a continuation to a new line but it is a 'Private Sub'.. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Error 2 'Private Sub InitializeComponent()' has multiple definitions with identical signatures.

C: Users Steve AppData Local Temporary Projects AnalogClock Form1.Designer.vb 24 17 AnalogClock This line is: Private Sub InitializeComponent() These are found in Form1.Designer.VB* Thoughts? 2 errors: Error 1 Attribute specifier is not a complete statement.

Use a line continuation to apply the attribute to the following statement. C: Users Steve AppData Local Temporary Projects AnalogClock Form1.Designer.vb 23 46 AnalogClock The line is: _ It looks like the _ suggests a continuation to a new line but it is a 'Private Sub'.. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Error 2 'Private Sub InitializeComponent()' has multiple definitions with identical signatures. C: Users Steve AppData Local Temporary Projects AnalogClock Form1.Designer.vb 24 17 AnalogClock This line is: Private Sub InitializeComponent() Thoughts? Emerogork It means that you have 2 initializecomponent subs, one in the code I provided, and one that was auto-generated by VB. Post what vb generated.

You can find out by going to your solution explorer and clicking show all files, then expand the form you're placing my code into. Then look for the duplicate initializecomponent sub. Place that code here. If you want something you've never had, you need to do something you've never done.

Everyone(not just the thread starter) should take the time to mark helpful posts, propose answers, and mark answers to questions. Ok, this is quite the adventure. In using your Digital clock code, I see that you included the screen capture and it is not just the clock as I had thought it would be. Since I have a working Capture/Save/Playback program.

I am not sure how much of this code I can use or adapt. Would this still work if I/we could extract the code for the analog clock and use my own screen capture program? Could it run independently of my program? (Maybe as a TSR?) Would it be visible to my capture software?

As I study your code, I get the feeling that that is not going to happen. If my guessing is right, I suspect that the clock is placed into the image as it is captured and is not actually on the screen. Neat idea though. This deserves further study. Good news for you, I have gone through and condensed that example I linked you earlier(the one on planetsourcecode). Applied Physics Dale Ewen Pdf Printer more. I condensed it down to a single function and added a bit of features. Please check this code out.

It will allow you to specify a few of the different things you requested. I have made it where you can do whatever image processing, then you feed your image to the function, and it places a clock wherever you specify with a background and border that you specify, along with an opacity that you can specify. You're going to get a wierd cascading affect if you display the captured image(like i do in the example), but if you instead save the bitmap to a file, that will not be there. Ok, this is quite the adventure. In using your Digital clock code, I see that you included the screen capture and it is not just the clock as I had thought it would be. Since I have a working Capture/Save/Playback program. I am not sure how much of this code I can use or adapt.

Would this still work if I/we could extract the code for the analog clock and use my own screen capture program? Could it run independently of my program? (Maybe as a TSR?) Would it be visible to my capture software? As I study your code, I get the feeling that that is not going to happen. If my guessing is right, I suspect that the clock is placed into the image as it is captured and is not actually on the screen.

Neat idea though. Torrent On Windows 8 Rt Tablets. This deserves further study.

Emerogork It draws a clock displaying time, based off of the time that the snapshot was taken. If you want something you've never had, you need to do something you've never done. Everyone(not just the thread starter) should take the time to mark helpful posts, propose answers, and mark answers to questions.

Yes, Yes, YEs, YESSS (I'll have what she is having.) I did do a double take when you asked if it 'captures my clock' though. It captured my attention and I have heard that people have had their 'clock cleaned' but captured??? (-: I think I will use it in casual conversation.

'Here is a fresh made brownie I just made, See if it captures your clock'. Thank you very much. Such simple code. Just to satisfy a curio, I would still like to understand why the clock, the Tach and the mouse pointer were not captured in my original code.

You Can Find it for VB.Net:cool: This Is the Form Closing event automatically raised when form closes Private Sub Form1_Closing(sender As Object, e As System.ComponentModel.CancelEventArgs) Handles MyBase.Closing ' Determine if text has changed in the textbox by comparing to original text. If textBox1.Text strMyOriginalText Then ' Display a MsgBox asking the user to save changes or abort. If MessageBox.Show( ' Do you want to save changes to your text?' , ' My Application', MessageBoxButtons.YesNo) = DialogResult.Yes Then ' Cancel the Closing event from closing the form. E.Cancel = True End If ' Call method to save file. End If End Sub ' Form1_Closing End Class ' Form1.