problems grabbing a block of a starbase screen at the moment i m trying to grab a portion of a starbase screen and store it in an area of memory the data needs to be in a bit format which shouldn t be a problem as the app is running on a bit screen though i m not too fussy about the exact format i actually intend to write the data out as a tiff but that bits not the problem does anyone out there know how to grab a portion of the screen the block read call seems to grab the screen but not in bit colour whatever the screen window type i get byte per pixel thanks in advance martin martin preston m preston manchester ac uk computer graphics computer graphics unit manchester computing centre is just university of manchester a load of balls manchester u k m pl phone
