>Thanks Renoir
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>George Taskers's program looks as if I could use it for capturing the various grid objects as bitmaps and then display those bitmaps in the appropriate position using the report designer.
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>Of course I would have to use the the class independant of his application and there is only an example of capturing a whole form this way as opposed to just capturing individual objects.
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>The help seems to indicate that the object must be visible and on top for it to work so it presents the same problems as Steven R Ruhl's program if I want this operation to happen in the background.
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>Sigh.... I wish VFP was a bit more like Crystal Reports and allowed different reporting zones on a page. Surely this is not too difficult to achieve.
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Mark,

Since my name, and the tool I wrote are being mentioned, I hope you don't mind my jumping in.

You're right about the object being visible. The object must be visible on the screen. The application does a bit-block transfer of screen memory. If, for example, another object partially obscures the one you're interested in, then you'll get a portion of it. IOW, it must be completely visible. The way the application works is to bring the form containing the object to the top of the Z-order.

Please remember that I wrote this as a developers' tool for producing graphical help files. Can it be used for other purposes, such as grabbing a screen shot of the current form? Absolutely! In fact, I know of some folk who have done just that. I think what you're looking for is far beyond the meager capacities of the tool, however.