Graphic/Screen Scrape - Can this be done

[Guest]

Experienced VB6 program, and I am reasonably familiar with the WIN32 API.

Here's what I want to do.

A window is open, running a monitoring tool that has graphical results.
The main graphic is always in the same place - A red X, a blue X, a white +
etc.
There are several different graphics, but their always the same and always
in the same spot.
I want to copy the 20x20ish area the graphic and paste it my application.

Then, I'll write code to look at the graphic and figure out exactly what the
symbol is.
I vaguely remember being able to do this in VB5, but that was a loong time
ago.

Can anyone point me in a general direction.
If you can just give me a tip on copying a subsection of graphics from a
foreign app, it would be an awesome starting point.

Thanks in advance!

 

[Guest]

I hate to answer my own question - but after a great deal of searching I
found this:

http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?t=385497

There is sample code for a "Screen Capture" class that is POWERFUL and
simple. If you need to get a framework friendly image, this is the way to go.