Offscreen Screencapture? <-- issues that affect image rendering

[Richard Gaskin]

Scott Rossi wrote:
> Recently, Phil Davis wrote:
> 
>>>>> I'm batting around the issue of screen capture on Windows again and am
>>>>> wondering if anyone has found a way to capture offscreen content (ie a
>>>>> stack
>>>>> with loc set to -1000,-1000).  This works fine on MacOSX but using the same
>>>>> standard import snapshot routine fails on Windows (XP).
>>>> Did you try this tip:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.sonsothunder.com/devres/revolution/tips/imag007.htm
>>>
>>> This is godlike, Ken -- works perfectly.  Thanks so much (and to Brian of
>>> course).
> 
>> "Godlike" is good enough for me! I can make this solution work for me too.
> 
> Not only does it work on XP but on OSX 3.9 as well (tested on 2 machines).
> I know earlier versions of OSX/Rev were said to cause problems, but it seems
> to work as expected here on both platforms, thus this tip really *is*
> godlike.

Crashes here with a kernel protection fault:

OS X 10.4.4
PowerBook G4 1Ghz

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