How can I take a screenshot and save it as JPEG on Windows?

Question

I\'m trying to find a (somewhat) easy way to take a screenshot on window and save the resulting HBITMAP as a JPEG. The tricky part here is that since the code is in C I can\

Answer 1

Try this at the begining of your code

#include "windows.h"
#include "gdiplus.h"
using namespace Gdiplus;
using namespace Gdiplus::DllExports;

And GdipSaveImageToFile() may compile, in c++ i believe.

In pure C, probably the best is to try to make single includes. Look for the functions declarations in "gdiplus.h" and add minimal includes for each of the functions that do not include namespaces, such as #include "Gdiplusflat.h" for the GdipSaveImageToFile()