Cocoa: take screenshot of desktop wallpaper (without icons and windows)

Question

Is is possible to capture the Mac OS X desktop without desktop items and any windows that may be open (i.e. just the wallpaper)?

I\'ve experimented with CGWind

Answer 1

I know this is a super old question, and Tony Arnold's question is right, and what I used to build my own "grab the desktop" code.

I have some example code that shows how to do all these things (it's a wonderful thing walking in parts of Cocoa that are barely documented... )

I've put that sample code up in a bitbucket repository. Specifically the code sample to take a picture. (There's more interesting Cocoa code in my learning Cocoa repository, where that sample code is from )