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

If you're really concerned about space, you can probably jettison the C runtime libraries as well. If you're only using a few functions, just write your own version (e.g. strcpy). It is possible to write Windows applications that are only a few K bytes. I can send you a small sample app which does this.

If I take my C imaging code and strip it down to just the JPEG encoder, it will probably produce about 20K of code (less if you don't need to support grayscale images).