Can i take a screenshot and save it NOT as BMP ?

I made a simple stuff here so the player can take screen-shots, but its a little slow (takes some time to save the image) and the image is really big ! (like 1.37Mbs)
Is there another faster and better way to take screenshots ?
Saving as .PNG would be really better.

Thanx.

There is a PNG saver DLL in the code archives. It's far from perfect but might suffice for what you want.

thanks, ill take a look :)

looks like the link is broken...

Try again here.

thanks. Working fine now. The delay to take the screen shot still there, but now we have PNG images.
Too bad only the DLLs takes more than 500kbs..

i dont think you can avoid the delay
infact using image compression probably adds to the time

the image is compressed on disc only
once its on screen the screen is a 24/32bit uncompressed bitmap

how about saving the image to a temp file then on exit print them out.
when i was trying a demo where the player walked around the level taking photo's this way was a nightmare with slight pause all the time. Instead i made it so pictures were saved on level exit.

Any storage of a full screen of pixels for saving now, or later will result in a delay.

Now then, store the minimal information you need to **recreate the same screen on-exit** and you might be talking a couple of hundred bytes rather than a couple of hundred Kb!

look at this!

Function screenshot()
if keyhit(88)

temps_depart_capture = MilliSecs()
iFileNumber% = 0
Repeat
iFileNumber = iFileNumber + 1
sFileName$ = "Captures\Screenshot" + String$("0", 3 - Len(Str$(iFileNumber))) + iFileNumber + ".bmp"
Until Not(FileType(sFileName))
SaveBuffer FrontBuffer(), sFileName
G_temps_de_pause = MilliSecs() - temps_depart_capture

endif
End Function