[python-win32] Absence of PrintWindow?

[Chris Ashurst]

I'm in the process of writing a little screenshot utility, and I've hit a
snag. I currently take a screenshot of a frame via the usual method of
building the various DC's, BitBlt'ing and so on, but the problem I have is
that I'm trying to grab screenshots of windows that are obscured by other
windows (so as to not disturb the current z-index of all windows as they
stand).

I was beginning to feel that what I required would not be possible, until I
found an article at CodeProject
(http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cs/CapturingMinimizedWindow.aspx) that
basically had what I needed (and was also for the most part all win32api
calls, even though the author used C#). As far as I could tell, apart from
some simple registry/bithacks, the author makes a call to PrintWindow(), and
that's where my hunt went cold - I cannot find PrintWindow in the wrapped
win32 stuff.

This is all a really long-winded (my apologies) way of asking if PrintWindow
*is* in Pythonwin, and if not, that's fine - I just need to save my sanity
from hunting for something that isn't there :)

(The only reference I could find to PrintWindow in regards to the win32 api
being wrapped was from a mailing list thread for Tcl in 2006 - the author
mentions it isn't wrapped due to CPU concerns).

Thanks! :)




Chris Ashurst
~Systems Production Support
~~Tower Hill Insurance Group




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