temporarily saving the screen

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Jim T
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'// Draw scene
....

'// store backbuffer in Pixmap
Local pm:TPixmap = GrabPixmap(0, 0, GraphicsWidth(), GraphicsHeight());

// or store in an Image'
Local img:TImage = createImage( GraphicsWidth(), GraphicsHeight(), 1, FILTEREDIMAGE | MASKEDIMAGE | DYNAMICIMAGE );
GrabImage(img, x, y );


Note that drawing a full screen-sized Pixmap to the screen is pretty damn slow. You may be better off using the Image method. Problem here is that the PixelFormat for the Image may not match the PixelFormat of the BackBuffer. This will produce some very odd colouring errors. I only get this error when using the DirectX7 driver though. OpenGL seems to work fine.