Not sure you can access internal picture of drawing area, but if you need to copy it's content I suggest you do it other way around. That is, do all drawing to picture and copy the ready picture to drawing area.
Draw.Begin(hMyPic) Draw. ... what ever ... Draw.End() Or: hMyPic = Picture.Load(...) Or however you have made content to drawing area. When the pic is ready, you just put it on drawing area: Draw.Begin(daChart) '' <--- use this only if drawing area property cached = true Draw.Picture(hMyPic, 0, 0) Draw.End() Jussi On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 6:50 AM, Louis W. Adams, Jr. < louiswadam...@charter.net> wrote: > > Taking a screenshot to get the DrawingArea contents seems to be a very > ugly > method to me. > > I think it's ugly too, but I'm the only one using the programs I write so > I'm the only one offended. I'm a GAMBUS newbie, and I've been very > confused > by posts that explain the proper way to convert the internal picture of a > drawing area control into an image file. Picture versus Image. Paint > versus Draw. Drawing Area control versus Picture Box control versus > ImageView control. Maybe someday I'll understand. For right now > Screenshot > works for me. > > Lou > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://gambas.8142.n7.nabble.com/Drawing-Area-Location-in-Screenshot-Depends-on-Window-Location-on-Desktop-tp45541p45561.html > Sent from the gambas-user mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Managing the Performance of Cloud-Based Applications > Take advantage of what the Cloud has to offer - Avoid Common Pitfalls. > Read the Whitepaper. > > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=121051231&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > Gambas-user mailing list > Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Managing the Performance of Cloud-Based Applications Take advantage of what the Cloud has to offer - Avoid Common Pitfalls. Read the Whitepaper. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=121051231&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Gambas-user mailing list Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user