Re: [pygame] take screenshots of desktop and any app running (even with direct3d, opengl, sdl, ...)

[DiliupG <diliupg@xxxxxxxxx>]

As far as I know this is not directly possible with Pygame as it's focus is on the window it creates. But you can use another method to do what you want.

Read this: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2846947/get-screenshot-on-windows-with-python

On 20 June 2017 at 12:35, Peter Irbizon <peterirbizon@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello,

I wondered if this is possible with pygame - I would like to take screenshot of my desktop. It means, my pygame app should run in background and be able to take whole screenshot of any application/whole desktop (not just itself), even in fullscreen mode (of in opengl, directx, direct3d, sdl mode). 

Because I tried to achieve this with python GTK but app for example when I took screenshot of my desktop and some video player with direct3d were running, I got black rectangle in that screen position.

Is there any sample code for this please?

Many thanks

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