[python-win32] screen capture and win32gui.GetDesktopWindow()

[Tim Roberts]

James Matthews wrote:
> Can you just call a GUI api that interfaces directly with the graphics
> card?

That's exactly what BitBlt is.  The simple fact is that desktop images
these days are HUGE.  The device-to-memory path is not the most
optimized path in a graphics chip.  It just takes time to snapshot the
screen.

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