Getting a picture of the whole desktop

how do i get a picture of the whole desktop? also, how do those programs
(like 3dMark) do that fade-in thingy? i would think they would have to know
the origional contents of whats under them, and it’s obvious that they cache
it b/c if u open 3dmark and then open another app under their logo, it
flickers. how do you see what the desktop looks like?

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how do i get a picture of the whole desktop?

You can’t do it with SDL.

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-Sam Lantinga, Software Engineer, Blizzard Entertainment