GetClipboardData(CF_BITMAP) unimplemented

[Roger Upole]

It's just that nobody has written code yet to do anything with the returned
bitmap handle.  However, you can still do screen captures without it.
The below code should also work with just about any window handle,
not just the desktop
       Roger

import win32gui, win32ui, win32con
hwnd=win32gui.GetDesktopWindow()
l,t,r,b=win32gui.GetWindowRect(hwnd)
h=b-t
w=r-l
hDC = win32gui.GetWindowDC(hwnd)
myDC=win32ui.CreateDCFromHandle(hDC)
newDC=myDC.CreateCompatibleDC()

myBitMap = win32ui.CreateBitmap()
myBitMap.CreateCompatibleBitmap(myDC, w, h)

newDC.SelectObject(myBitMap)
newDC.BitBlt((0,0),(w, h) , myDC, (0,0), win32con.SRCCOPY)
myBitMap.Paint(newDC)
myBitMap.SaveBitmapFile(newDC,'c:\\tmp.bmp')



"Kyle Harrigan" <kwharrigan at yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:90924643.0405200902.610baf23 at posting.google.com...
> Win32all folks:
>
> I am attempting to use win32all to perform screen captures and save
> the bitmap to a file.  The call to GetClipboardData fails saying
> GetClipboardData(CF_BITMAP) is unimplemented.  Any ideas?
>
> My code looks something like this:
>
> win32api.keybd_event(VK_SNAPSHOT, 0x45, KEYEVENTF_EXTENDEDKEY | 0, 0)
> win32clipboard.OpenClipboard()
> format = win32clipboard.EnumClipboardFormats()
> data = win32clipboard.GetClipboardData(format)
> win32clipboard.CloseClipboard()
> writeFile = open('outfile.bmp','w')
> writeFile.write(data)
> writeFile.close()