Library tutorials & articles

Magnifying The Desktop With Visual Basic

Conclusion

In this article we've seen how we can use a couple of API calls, a timer and a scroll bar to dynamically capture and magnify a portion of the Windows desktop just the same way as the built-in Windows magnifier application does.

If you've worked with the Windows API before, you might want to look at adding new features to our app, and maybe even turning it into a shareware app that you can distribute to the masses using CNet or Tucows.

This article was contributed by Jason Brimblecombe from devArticles.com. If you're after free programming eBooks then please click here.

Comments

  1. 06 Mar 2005 at 18:54

    i am solving similar kind of problem...


    But i doing that in c++. well i found something in msdn. Using GetCursorInfo() one can get the cursor info. and then one can use the drawIcon() to draw. but i am not sure how one can get the icon from the cursor handle...


    If you found any solutions, pls reply to this msg.


    thanks
    vinod

  2. 02 Jan 2003 at 08:57

    plz help me how to capture screen include cursor picture

  3. 02 Jan 2003 at 08:57

    Great but plz help me how to capture screen include cursor picture

  4. 29 Mar 2002 at 12:41

    I learn't alot about using API by trying this code.


    Pretty cool. works great!

  5. 01 Jan 1999 at 00:00

    This thread is for discussions of Magnifying The Desktop With Visual Basic.

Leave a comment

Sign in or Join us (it's free).

Mitchell Harper Visit http://www.devarticles.com for more articles and free programming eBooks, or visit Socket6.com for your dose of daily developer news!
AddThis

Related discussion

Related podcasts

  • Christian Beauclair

    14 mai 2008 (�mission #0074) ::.Christian Beauclair: Stratégies de migration VB6 vers .NET Nous discutons avec Christian Beauclair des stratégies de migration VB6 vers .NET. Entre autres, nous discutons comment utiliser le "VB 6 Code Advisor" et le "Interop Forms Toolkit" pour ajouter la puiss...

We'd love to hear what you think! Submit ideas or give us feedback