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How to capture given window into video in VBScript and VB6 with ByteScout Screen Capturing SDK

Tutorial on how to capture given window into video in VBScript and VB6

The sample source code below will teach you how to capture given window into video in VBScript and VB6. ByteScout Screen Capturing SDK can capture given window into video. It can be used from VBScript and VB6. ByteScout Screen Capturing SDK is the SDK for developers for quick implementation of screen video recording. The SDK records screen into video or into a series of screenshots. Can also record audio. Saves video into AVI,WMV and Google’s WebM. Output video quality, size, resolution or framerate can be adjusted easily. Provides additional tools for privacy features like blacking out on scren areas with sensitive information on screen right during recording. Supports web camera as input and can add instant text and images into video output.

The SDK samples like this one below explain how to quickly make your application do capture given window into video in VBScript and VB6 with the help of ByteScout Screen Capturing SDK. In your VBScript and VB6 project or application you may simply copy & paste the code and then run your app! Enjoy writing a code with ready-to-use sample VBScript and VB6 codes.

Trial version of ByteScout Screen Capturing SDK can be downloaded for free from our website. It also includes source code samples for VBScript and VB6 and other programming languages.

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CaptureGivenWindow.vbs
      
' create video capturer activex object Set capturer = CreateObject("BytescoutScreenCapturing.Capturer") ' set output video file name (WMV), you can also set to AVI capturer.OutputFileName = "GivenWindowCaptured.wmv" ' set capturing type to the caVisibleWindow=4 (captures from the window) or caWindow=1 (may flicker but captures from non-visible windows as well) capturer.CapturingType = 4 MsgBox "This script will record video from Internet Explorer for 10 seconds. Please run Internet Explorer and click OK" capturer.WindowToCapture = "Internet Explorer" ' set width of the output video capturer.OutputWidth = 640 ' set height of the output video capturer.OutputHeight = 480 ' set border type to show around captured area capturer.CaptureAreaBorderType = 2 ' CaptureAreaBorderType.cabtDashed; ' uncomment to enable recording of semitransparent or layered windows (Warning: may cause mouse cursor flickering) ' capturer.CaptureTransparentControls = true ' uncomment to set another output video compression method, Bytescout Lossless, DivX or MJPEG (if installed) ' you can use lossless video format, Bytescout Lossless Video Codec ' capturer.CurrentVideoCodecName = "Bytescout Lossless" ' run video capturing capturer.Run() ' IMPORTANT: if you want to check for some code if need to stop the recording then make sure you are ' using Thread.Sleep(1) inside the checking loop, so you have the loop like ' Do ' Thread.Sleep(1) ' While StopButtonNotClicked ' wait for 15 seconds (15000 msec) WScript.Sleep(15000) ' stop capturing capturer.Stop() ' destroy Capturer object so the video will be saved into the disk Set capturer = Nothing

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