How to get screenshot of an uielement

[constlhq]

How to get screenshot of an uielement

[leexgone]

The windows uiautomation API doesn't support to get screenshot of an uielement.
You can do this with windows GDI APIs now.

This is a goog idea.
I will try to support this feature on the next version. But it will take some time.

[constlhq]

Thanks for the advice, I've found this official example https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/gdi/capturing-an-image and translated it into rust, not elegant but works.

unsafe fn CaptureAnImage(hWnd: HWND) {
    let hdcScreen: HDC;
    let hdcWindow: HDC;
    let mut hdcMemDC: CreatedHDC;
    let hbmScreen: HBITMAP;
    let mut bmpScreen: BITMAP = BITMAP::default();
    let mut dwBytesWritten: u32 = 0;
    let mut dwSizeofDIB: u32 = 0;
    let hFile: HANDLE;
    let lpbitmap: *mut c_void;
    let hDIB: isize;
    let mut dwBmpSize: u32 = 0;

// Retrieve the handle to a display device context for the client
// area of the window.
    hdcScreen = GetDC(None);
    hdcWindow = GetDC(hWnd);

// Create a compatible DC, which is used in a BitBlt from the window DC.
    hdcMemDC = CreateCompatibleDC(hdcWindow);

    if (hdcMemDC.is_invalid()) {
        println!("CreateCompatibleDC has failed");
    }

// Get the client area for size calculation.
    let mut rcClient = RECT::default();
    GetClientRect(hWnd, &mut rcClient);

// This is the best stretch mode.
    SetStretchBltMode(hdcWindow, HALFTONE);

// The source DC is the entire screen, and the destination DC is the current window (HWND).
    if (!StretchBlt(hdcWindow,
                    0, 0,
                    rcClient.right, rcClient.bottom,
                    hdcScreen,
                    0, 0,
                    GetSystemMetrics(SM_CXSCREEN),
                    GetSystemMetrics(SM_CYSCREEN),
                    SRCCOPY).as_bool()) {
        println!("StretchBlt has failed");
    }

// Create a compatible bitmap from the Window DC.
    hbmScreen = CreateCompatibleBitmap(hdcWindow, rcClient.right - rcClient.left, rcClient.bottom - rcClient.top);

    if (hbmScreen.is_invalid()) {
        println!("CreateCompatibleBitmap Failed");
    }

// Select the compatible bitmap into the compatible memory DC.
    SelectObject(hdcMemDC, hbmScreen);

// Bit block transfer into our compatible memory DC.
    if (!BitBlt(hdcMemDC,
                0, 0,
                rcClient.right - rcClient.left, rcClient.bottom - rcClient.top,
                hdcWindow,
                0, 0,
                SRCCOPY).as_bool()) {
        println!("BitBlt has failed");
    }

// Get the BITMAP from the HBITMAP.
    GetObjectA(hbmScreen, size_of::<BITMAP>() as i32, &mut bmpScreen as *mut BITMAP as *mut c_void);

    let mut bmfHeader: BITMAPFILEHEADER = BITMAPFILEHEADER::default();

    let mut bi: BITMAPINFOHEADER = BITMAPINFOHEADER {
        biSize: size_of::<BITMAPINFOHEADER>() as u32,
        biWidth: bmpScreen.bmWidth,
        biHeight: bmpScreen.bmHeight,
        biPlanes: 1,
        biBitCount: 32,
        biCompression: BI_RGB as u32,
        biSizeImage: 0,
        biXPelsPerMeter: 0,
        biYPelsPerMeter: 0,
        biClrUsed: 0,
        biClrImportant: 0,
    };
    
    dwBmpSize = (((bmpScreen.bmWidth * bi.biBitCount as i32 + 31) / 32) * 4 * bmpScreen.bmHeight) as u32;

// Starting with 32-bit Windows, GlobalAlloc and LocalAlloc are implemented as wrapper functions that
// call HeapAlloc using a handle to the process's default heap. Therefore, GlobalAlloc and LocalAlloc
// have greater overhead than HeapAlloc.
    hDIB = GlobalAlloc(GHND, dwBmpSize as usize);
    lpbitmap = GlobalLock(hDIB);

// Gets the "bits" from the bitmap, and copies them into a buffer
// that's pointed to by lpbitmap.
    GetDIBits(hdcWindow, hbmScreen, 0,
              bmpScreen.bmHeight as u32,
              lpbitmap,
              &mut bi as *mut BITMAPINFOHEADER as *mut c_void as *mut BITMAPINFO, DIB_RGB_COLORS);

// A file is created, this is where we will save the screen capture.
    hFile = CreateFileA("captureqwsx.bmp",
                        FILE_ACCESS_FLAGS(GENERIC_WRITE),
                        FILE_SHARE_MODE(0),
                        std::ptr::null(),
                        CREATE_ALWAYS,
                        FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL, None).unwrap();

// Add the size of the headers to the size of the bitmap to get the total file size.
    dwSizeofDIB = dwBmpSize + size_of::<BITMAPFILEHEADER>() as u32 + size_of::<BITMAPINFOHEADER>() as u32;

// Offset to where the actual bitmap bits start.
    bmfHeader.bfOffBits = (size_of::<BITMAPFILEHEADER>() + size_of::<BITMAPINFOHEADER>()) as u32;

// Size of the file.
    bmfHeader.bfSize = dwSizeofDIB;

// bfType must always be BM for Bitmaps.
    bmfHeader.bfType = 0x4D42; // BM.
    WriteFile(hFile, &bmfHeader as *const BITMAPFILEHEADER as *const c_void, size_of::<BITMAPFILEHEADER>() as u32, &mut dwBytesWritten, std::ptr::null_mut());
    WriteFile(hFile, &bi as *const BITMAPINFOHEADER as *const c_void, size_of::<BITMAPINFOHEADER>() as u32, &mut dwBytesWritten, std::ptr::null_mut());
    WriteFile(hFile, lpbitmap, dwBmpSize, &mut dwBytesWritten, std::ptr::null_mut());

// Unlock and Free the DIB from the heap.
    GlobalUnlock(hDIB);
    GlobalFree(hDIB);

// Close the handle for the file that was created.
    CloseHandle(hFile);

// Clean up.
    DeleteObject(hbmScreen);
    DeleteDC(hdcMemDC);
    ReleaseDC(None, hdcScreen);
    ReleaseDC(hWnd, hdcWindow);
}