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Desktop Screenshots for GameMaker

Capture part/whole screen/all screens inside or outside of your GM games · By YellowAfterlife

Without screens

A topic by GravityCiphers created Nov 23, 2023 Views: 108 Replies: 5
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Hello! Thank you for the great feature.

Well, there is question 
It's just that when capturing the screen, is there a way to capture it
without including the current window screen?

Developer

If you mean to capture the screen without the game window appearing on the capture, my smaller free extension has window_set_visible_w - you can hide the window, capture a screenshot, and show it again.

Thanks for your reply! First of all, 
I tried many things in the way you mentioned, but there is one problem, a
slight delay. To be precise, 
the principle of hiding the window is the same as what occurs when we close the window, 
but because of the slight delay that occurs at that time, it is difficult to provide screen effects. 
Is there any other way?
Developer

For that you would have to explain what exactly you are trying to accomplish.

I saw this extension and thought it would be possible to create a visual effect
that creates objects outside the screen

Developer

You can do some effects - e.g. the window hole in BLAWK is made using this extension (the game takes a screenshot when you start that level and keeps drawing from it).

But if you wanted to do something like inverting colors on a part of the screen in real-time, then no, you can’t quite do that, be it with this extension or in general - Windows only supports capturing part of the screen (which is everything you see, except for the mouse cursor) or a part of a window (which is what’s inside the window, except for the window title/borders)