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

You will probably have to use an external library to create a JPEG in C code--there won't be a standard library function to do it. Of course, you could also study the file format and write a function to generate your own, based on the criteria. You could start at wikipedia. If you really can't just use an external library, you could read into the relevant functions of the library to learn about how to generate your own JPEGs. But that sounds like a lot more work than just using the library.

Also, I don't believe the size of a library really comes into play with C -- I believe you only get the size of the functions you call from that library (I think, anyway). Of course if all the functions are tightly coupled than it'd be huge anyway.