GetDesktopWindow

[jm]

Hello,
I have been having trouble getting the desktop window using
GetDesktopWindow(). I want to get a screen shot of the entire window
and convert it to a bitmap image, which I will save to disk. Does
anyone know how to do this in just a few lines?

Here's where I have trouble:

MyFunction()
{
...
...

hwnd = GetDesktopWindow();
...
...
}

This is the error I get:
error C2440: '=' : cannot convert from 'class CWnd *' to 'struct
HWND__ *'

??? HOWEVER, this is a portion of the help page describing
"GetDesktopWindow()": (VC++ 6.0)
/*************************************************************************************************************/

The GetDesktopWindow function returns a handle to the desktop window.
The desktop window covers the entire screen. The desktop window is the
area on top of which all icons and other windows are painted.

HWND GetDesktopWindow(VOID)

Parameters.....
/*************************************************************************************************************/

Thanks for anyone's help......

[Check Abdoul]

Hi...
You are calling the GetDesktopWindow() of CWnd base class. ( which
returns a pointer to CWnd ).

Instead what you wanted is the SDK's function. So qualify it with
the scope qualifier.

That is use ::GetDesktopWindow() instead of GetDesktopWindow()

Cheers
Check Abdoul
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"jm" <j...@none.com> wrote in message news:398EEFAF...@none.com...

[Adrian O' Neill]

Hi,
Try GetDesktopWindow()->GetSafeHwnd();

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Adrian O' Neill
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[ass]

You should use "::GetDesktopWindow" to obtaine a HWND
or your hwnd must be of CWnd type.