Desktop Window

I am using Visual C++ 6.0 and I want to know how to get a picture of the desktop of my computer as a bitmap or whatever image format I can get it in.

I know that there's this functon called GetDesktopWindow() but it how can I use it to get a visual image of the Desktop ?

Can anyone please help ?

GetDesktopWindow() returns the HWND (handle to the window)

Will not get the wallpaper/desktop.

I don't know of a function that will. I would be looking for a screen capture function.

This is what i do know:
1) The button called [Print Scrn] (next to [Scroll Lock]) allows you to capture the screen.
2) You can open paint and paste the captured picture and view/save/whatever.
3) Find a way to automate this process.

That is how i would get started on this project.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...tmaps_5a5h.asp gives an example of capturing the desktop window and writing it to a bitmap using BitBlt().