>I have written a "print screen" routine in VB6, but I am having trouble getting the print out to look correct and some finer points of the printing working.
>
>The problems:
>1) I put the caputured screen bitmap onto a form and print it. Is this is the best way to do it? Currently the bitmap is clipped because the form is not big enough, how can I get it stretch/shrink itself into the form.
>2) When I issue the form1.printform command, the printout is send directly to the default printer. I would instead like the Windows print diallog to come up. This would allow the user to set various properties of the print job.
>

>Sub Main()
>    Clipboard.Clear
>    keybd_event vbKeySnapshot, TheScreen, 0&, 0&
>    DoEvents
>    Form1.Picture = Clipboard.GetData()
>    Form1.PrintForm
>    End
>End Sub
>

Evan,
You could use DIBAP32.DLL to do the capture and print. It is included in my ScrnPrnt class in the Visual FoxPro file section (File#94706). If you still want to roll your own, you can look at the source for the DLL and see how it does it.