How can I do Screen Recording ?

[SherTeks]

Hi All,

Is there any MFC support for performing desktop screen recording activities
like mouse movement, text selection etc (basically anything done on the desktop)

Or

Is there any other way to accomplish the task

Regards,
Shermil

[dc_2000]

Is there any MFC support for performing desktop screen recording activities
like mouse movement, text selection etc (basically anything done on the desktop)

Not that I know of.

It's quite doable, you'll just have to make screenshots of the desktop every so often and isolate the part under the mouse pointer. But, why do you want to "mess with it" when there is so much software out there that can do it quite professionally.

[SherTeks]

why do you want to "mess with it" when there is so much software out there that can do it quite professionally

Because I would want to have an integrated code in my application that does the screen recording of all activities done on my application

Can you link me to some pages that provides samples of what you have said regarding implementing screen recording?

Thanks

[dc_2000]

Well, did you think about recording it differently (not into a video file)?
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/DLL/eventrecorder.aspx

Otherwise, I don't think you'll find a ready sample for that. What you need to do is straightforward: you get a screenshot of the desktop once every half-second or so, and then compact it into any of the video formats: most popular are .swf and .avi, but .mov, etc. will work too. It's quite a challenge to do all that if you don't know that stuff, that is why I recommended using someone else's program for that.

[carl666]

Use journal hooks, see MSDN samples