Doesn't capture transparent window, instead gets underlying screen

[tabletguy]

Using cFossSpeed (version 13 - latest paid) set in transparent mode, trying to capture the window of the running program, it, instead, captures the background screen

What it actually captured:

What I was trying to capture (I added the arrow afterwards by capturing with a different screen capture program)

Using current ShareX 16.01 on Windows 11 Pro 22H2, 32GB memory

[tabletguy]

It actually isn't even the screen background. I changed the background (right side monitor #2) to a very dark red in that section, and did another "window" capture. The resulting capture was the correct dimensions of the window, but was a white rectangle.

(It's invisible because it's white on white (Sorry!)

[Jaex]

It is possible to hide their own window from screenshots: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/winuser/nf-winuser-setwindowdisplayaffinity

So they could be doing it on purpose to not cover screenshots.

[tabletguy]

I was easily able to do a screenshot with another program -- no changes to the settings. It's only ShareX that couldn't do the screenshot.

To be clear, I wasn't complaining about not getting the Windows background. I was pointing out that ShareX did not get the CFos window even though I selected it directly from the menu.

On Mon, Apr 1, 2024 at 4:25 PM Jaex @.***> wrote:

It is possible to hide their own window from screenshots:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/winuser/nf-winuser-setwindowdisplayaffinity

So they must be doing it on purpose to not cover screenshots.

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