How to capture the screen with the “Tool Tips”?

Question

I am using GDI to capture the screen, and I have noticed that the \"Tool Tips\" are not included in the screenshot. This is my basic code:

HDC hdcDesk = GetD         


        

Answer 1

I had the exact problem a few years ago with a windows XP system. The code in the answer to my question solved the problem:

Capture screenshot Including Semitransparent windows in .NET

For you, you should be able to just change your stretchblt line to bitblt and add captureblt:

HDC hdcDesk = GetDC(0);

HDC hdcMem = CreateCompatibleDC(hdcDesk);
HBITMAP hbmMem = CreateCompatibleBitmap(hdcDesk, 1920, 1080);
SelectObject(hdcMem, hbmMem);

BitBlt(hdcMem, 0, 0, 1920, 1080, hdcDesk, 0, 0, SRCCOPY | CAPTUREBLT);

// Now save the bitmap...

Tooltips, like transparent windows, are skipped by spec of bitblt. Plus, you're not resizing, so use bitblt. If that doesn't work, there might be something else wrong with what you are doing as the other commenters hint, so you can convert the answer to my question from C# to C, that did work for me on XP. (of course I don't have XP any more to test but that was definitely the issue).