I am currently working on a new project where I needed to capture images again for the Sellers to be used on their ID and on forms, so I fished out ImageCapture.prgwhich Gelson L. Bremmshared to us: http://weblogs.foxite.com/vfpimaging/2006/03/20/capture-screen-portions/
But this time I decided to attempt to enhance it for my needs so I changed some approaches and used GDIPlus-X for the saving of the image instead of the original approach he has implemented. Doing so, I was able to cut around 60% of the original codes too. Check this for GDIPlus-X: https://github.com/VFPX/GDIPlusXin case you needed to download it.
Likewise incorporated here is a simple trick on form nudging capability so you can use the keyboard arrows to position the capture form which is easier than purely using mouse. Also, when you adjust the form width and height, there is no need for you to worry adjusting the capture coordinates as well as that will also auto-adjust based on both form height and width set.
Here is the enhanced version of that:
* Enhanced version of ImageCapture.prg (May 3, 2018)
* Original Developer: German L. Bremm
* http://weblogs.foxite.com/vfpimaging/2006/03/20/capture-screen-portions/
Lparameters toObject, cFileOutput
Public gToObject, gcFileOutput
gToObject = m.toObject
gcFileOutput = m.cFileOutput
Public oCapturaImg
oCapturaImg = Createobject("ImgCapture")
oCapturaImg.Show()
Define Class ImgCapture As Form
Name = "ImgCapture"
Height = 332
Width = 300
AutoCenter = .T.
Caption = "Position over the Image you want to Capture"
MaxButton = .F.
MinButton = .F.
AlwaysOnTop = .T.
ShowWindow = 2
BorderStyle = 0
BackColor = Rgb(60,60,60)
_nBorder = Sysmetric(10)
_nTitleBarHeight = Sysmetric(9)
_nFormWidth = 0
_nFormHeight = 0
Add Object cmdSnap As CommandButton With;
Height = 28,;
Caption = '\<Grab Image',;
Width = 142,;
Left = 5,;
FontName = 'Arial',;
FontSize = 14,;
FontBold = .T.
Procedure Init
Declare Integer CombineRgn In "GDI32"Integer hDestRgn, Integer hRgn1, Integer hRgn2, Integer nMode
Declare Integer CreateRectRgn In "GDI32"Integer X1, Integer Y1, Integer X2, Integer Y2
Declare Integer SetWindowRgn In "user32"Integer HWnd, Integer hRgn, Integer nRedraw
This.Resize()
Endproc
Procedure Resize
With This
.cmdSnap.Left = .Width-.cmdSnap.Width-4
.cmdSnap.Top = .Height-.cmdSnap.Height-5
.cmdSnap.Tag = Allt(Str(.cmdSnap.Left))
.SetTransparent()
Endwith
Endproc
Procedure SetTransparent
Local lnInnerRgn, lnOuterRgn, lnRgnHandle
With This
._nFormWidth = .Width + (._nBorder * 2)
._nFormHeight = .Height + ._nTitleBarHeight + ._nBorder
lnOuterRgn = CreateRectRgn(2, 2, ._nFormWidth+2, ._nFormHeight+2)
lnInnerRgn = CreateRectRgn(._nBorder+6,._nTitleBarHeight+8,._nFormWidth-._nBorder-4,._nFormHeight-._nBorder-34)
lnRgnHandle= CreateRectRgn(0, 0, 0, 0)
CombineRgn(m.lnRgnHandle, m.lnOuterRgn, m.lnInnerRgn, 4)
SetWindowRgn(.HWnd , m.lnRgnHandle, .T.)
.BorderStyle = 1
Endwith
Endproc
Procedure CopyToFile
Do Locfile("system.app")
Local locapturebmp As xfcbitmap, lcImage
lcImage = m.gcFileOutput
If Empty(m.lcImage)
lcImage = Getpict("png")
Endif
Clear Resources
With _Screen.System.drawing
* Coordinates are X, Y, Width and Height
locapturebmp = .Bitmap.fromscreen(Thisform.HWnd,;
thisform._nBorder+6,;
thisform._nTitleBarHeight+8,;
thisform._nFormWidth-Thisform._nBorder-10,;
thisform._nFormHeight-Thisform._nBorder-Thisform.cmdSnap.Height-36,;
.F.)
locapturebmp.Save(m.lcImage, .imaging.imageformat.png,.imaging.imageformat.png)
Endwith
* Update target Image object
gToObject.Picture = m.lcImage
CLEAR RESOURCES m.lcImage
Endproc
Procedure KeyPress
Lparameters nKeyCode, nShiftAltCtrl
* Use Keyboard arrows to nudge frame
Do Case
Case m.nKeyCode = 24 && move down
Thisform.Top = Thisform.Top + 1
Case m.nKeyCode = 5 && move up
Thisform.Top = Thisform.Top - 1
Case m.nKeyCode = 19 && move left
Thisform.Left = Thisform.Left - 1
Case m.nKeyCode = 4 && move right
Thisform.Left = Thisform.Left + 1
Endcase
Endproc
Procedure cmdSnap.Click
This.BackColor = Rgb(255,0,0)
This.Caption = 'Capturing...'
Thisform.CopyToFile()
Thisform.Release()
Endproc
Procedure Destroy
oCapturaImg = Null
gToObject = Null
gcFileOutput = Null
Release oCapturaImg
Release gToObject
Release gcFileOutput
Release CombineRgn
Release CreateRectRgn
Release SetWindowRgn
Endproc
Enddefine
If you notice, I am passing two parameters. First parameter is the image object to show the result of the capturing and the second one is the fullpath and name of the file to be saved. Calling it is like this:
Do Form snagface With thisform.Image1, csrGrid.sellerid
So I can call that from anywhere on my form and immediately after grabbing an image, it gets displayed on an Image object. And here is how it looks like (using my favorite cat as the model):
Darn, I really love that cat's expression. Always makes me smile. :)
Special thanks to bothGelson L. Bremm and Cesar Chalom for this and other tools Cesar has shared to us.