Vista - How to get the bitmap image of a control

Hi all

How to retrieve the bitmap image of a given WPF control (or
visualtree) ?

I'd like to be able to insert a kind of control "screen copy" in an
arbitrary destination (a Word document for instance). Is there an easy
way to do that ? I think I've seen that somewhere but I can't remember
where.

Thanx in advance.

Hi,

Patrice wrote:Check the thread named "Draw a circle in WPF" earlier in this very forum.

Greetings,
Laurent
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On 31 oct, 23:25, "Laurent Bugnion, MVP" <galasoft...@xxxxxx>
wrote:Yeah, I've seen it just after having posted my message. It seems it
answers perfectly my question. thnax a lot !

On 31 oct, 23:32, Patrice <contact-on...@xxxxxx-si.com> wrote:Salut Laurent,

I tried to use your code but I got the same issue described in the
last post of the thread you mentioned (empty image).

And I can't figure what I'im doing wrong.

Here is my code (vb sorry )

Public Function GetImageFromVisual(ByVal Target As Visual, ByVal
width As Integer, ByVal height As Integer) As RenderTargetBitmap

Dim bounds As Rect =
VisualTreeHelper.GetDescendantBounds(Target)

Dim renderBitmap As New RenderTargetBitmap(width, height, 96,
96, PixelFormats.Pbgra32)

Dim visual As New DrawingVisual()
Dim context As DrawingContext = visual.RenderOpen
With context
Dim brush As New VisualBrush(Target)
context.DrawRectangle(brush, Nothing, New Rect(New
Point(), bounds.Size))
End With
renderBitmap.Render(visual)
Return renderBitmap

End Function

If ever you can see something...

Thanx in advance

Salut,

I don't have time to debug it, but I can send you a working example per
email if you want, and you can build on that.

My example will be in C# though :-(

Let me know

Greetings,
Laurent

Patrice wrote:--
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