Htmlsnapshot can capture image of an existing webbrowser control and save it into jpg, bmp, gif, png etc.
You need to pass the object instance of the webbrowser control (IDispatch in C++).
In VB6, you can do it like below:
Dim snap1 As HtmlSnap2.CHtmlSnap
Set snap1 = CreateObject(“HTMLSNAP2.HtmlSnap.1″)
snap1.SnapWebBrowser WebBrowser1.Object, “c:web.bmp”
snap1.Clear
We also provide C# demo with our trial version.
We just released a new version of html to image
It fixes an issue when capturing javascript enabled page such as the google map.
To record the “Stereo Mix” or “Wave Mix” on Vista with Audio Record Expert, you will need to enable the device first.
Read more on
http://www.downloadsquad.com/2007/01/15/how-to-enable-wave-out-recording-in-vista/
Our htmlsnapshot component is designed to convert html or text content into image.
If a URL is not text/htm content, the snapUrl method may fail.
To solve this issue, we add a new method called IsGoodUrlForSnap.
It will return 1 on the URL which is text/html content. It can be called like below:
snap.IsGoodUrlForSnap(“http://www.google.com“)
For more details, please visit the home page of htmlsnapshot
I tried it as well. But found it doesn’t work.
Virtual PC’s video card simulation is not supported by the default installation. I has to choose the “safe graphics” option to let it go. But when it comes to let me click the “install” icon on the desktop, I found the mouse doesn’t work…
So don’t waste time to try that. Use the free VMware server instead which I think it is much better than the free Virtual PC 2007
Today I tried to install Ubuntu Linux 7.04 onto VMware server which is free.
The installation process is easy and smooth. After that I met a problem on how to share the data with my windows machine which is using Vista.
After doing some search, I found two ways:
It is necessary to add the user to SMB password list.
Sudo smbpasswd -a username
tried
Run secpol.msc
Go to: Local Policies > Security Options
Find “Network Security: LAN Manager authentication level”
Change Setting from “Send NTLMv2 response only”
to”Send LM & NTLM – use NTLMv2 session security if negotiated”
Vista defaults to only send the more secure NTLMv2 protocol, which these NAS devices / Samba do not support.”
Finally tried a manual mount
sudo mount -t cifs -o username=user,password=pass //VistaIP/share /mnt/vista
It finally works.
By the way, Ubuntu has an easy way to update software on it. The command below can automatically download and install new software onto the system.
sudo apt-get install softwarename
Have fun with it. 
Our ActiveTTS component is a COM component. Using it in .Net needs some attention on how to release it.
.Net uses GC to release unused object. But for COM object, it is better to release it as soon as possible when it is not used.
The following example code shows how you release ActiveTTS object when it is done.
Dim i
For i = 0 To 1000
Try
Dim objActiveTTS As New TTSObj.CTextToSpeechClass
Dim strCode As String
objActiveTTS.SetCode(strCode)
objActiveTTS.SpeakToFile(“Hello world”, “d:tempxxxx.mp3″, TTSObj.TTSFLAG.TF_DEFAULT)
Marshal.ReleaseComObject(objActiveTTS)
Catch ex As Exception
End Try
Next
Marshal.ReleaseComObject is the key method.
Do you ever want to take a screen shot of a web page in your desktop or web application? HTML Snapshot ActiveX is a software component that can make html to image easier than ever before. It can download and parse web sites and save a screenshot of the page in GIF, JPG, JPEG, BMP, PNG, TIFF, WMF and EMF. You can choose to capture the entire page, or a thumbnail image of a specified size, and save it to a local folder.
The key benifits of using Html Snapshot are:
Html Snapshot has been used by thousands of enterprise customers since its first release in 2004. And it is being constantly improved by the company Guangming Software. Lot of new features and fixes are adding to the product.
Here below lists the high light features of the component.
Html Snapshot is free to try. Just try it out for FREE in your applications to convert html to image before purchase.
Related web links:
Guangming Software: http://www.guangmingsoft.net
Html Snapshot: http://www.guangmingsoft.net/htmlsnapshot/help.htm
Html Snapshot Download: http://www.guangmingsoft.net/htmlsnapshot/HtmlSnapSetup.exe
We released a new version of Audio record component.
The major update is that we update some underline audio encoders. Feel free to upgrade or try
Some times a URL is protected by autentication scheme such as http authentication or NTLM if you are in a windows domain network. It ususally asks user to input username and password so as to access the protected URLs by poping up a dialog.
Our Htmlsnapshot now supports authentication URLs with a method called SetAuthUserAndPasswd
‘demo how to capture a page with http authentication
Dim snap‘Create the Html Snapshot Object
Set snap = CreateObject(“HTMLSNAP2.HtmlSnap.1″)‘Set the time to wait for web page loading
snap.SetTimeOut CLng(200000)‘Begin to capture the web page
‘Note, change following to your url, user and password for test
snap.SetAuthUserAndPasswd “username”, “password”snap.SnapUrl “http://www.example.com“, “auth.jpg”
‘Free object
Set snap = Nothing