stopping screen capture

[khaldoun KASSEM]

Hi to all

Is there any methode to stop "print screen".

thank you

khaldoun

[AlionSolutions]

Hi,
got no time now to verify the following but maybe it might help you:

Windows keeps a list of so called printer-jobs somewhere. I think all print-jobs inited by print-screen are also enqueued there. Otherwise a cuurent print-job, which is initiated by an application like Word etc. might be broken if someone initiates a print-screen.

I read somewhere, that there are Win32-API-Functions for creating, stopping and deleting print-jobs.

I didn't try something like that myself, bt it should be just a suggestion.

Greets

Juergen

[galathaea]

The simplest way I know of is to just OpenClipboard (without closing it back up), since that will tie up the clipboard so Windows can't use it for the capture. It may not be what you want if you need other applications to use the clipboard. And be aware that this does not stop other screen capture methods.

[khaldoun KASSEM]

Thank you
I'll test it

[Yves M]

Or you might install a global keyboard hook for that key, so that the Print Screen key doesn't actually do anything.

See this article for an introduction on keyboard hooks