Corey Murtagh wrote:
Most DVD players (and several other applications besides) use video overlays where possible. Of course this requires a video card that supports them, but that's fairly common these days.
The cool thing about overlays is that they're not present in the display's frame buffer at all. They're mixed in on top of the frame buffer sometime shortly before the video card squirts the image out to the RAMDAC. This means that all you get from a screen capture is a blank section in some funky color where the overlay is.
Oh, and you aren't restricted to just playing movies in overlay space. WinAMP's visualisation stuff has an option for using overlays, and they're dynamically generated. Should be simpler to display a static text, right?
Try turning your video card's acceleration to "None". You can then take as many screenshots as you want as overlays are disabled :). Or you can simply download a tool which has been designed for the purpose of taking screenshots of overlays (I think that they exist).
Cheers, Nicholas Sherlock _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list [email protected] http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi
