How to read the screen pixels?

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Starting with your code and omitting error checking …

// Create a BITMAPINFO specifying the format you want the pixels in.
// To keep this simple, we'll use 32-bits per pixel (the high byte isn't
// used).
BITMAPINFO bmi = {0};
bmi.bmiHeader.biSize = sizeof(bmi.bmiHeader);
bmi.bmiHeader.biWidth = nScreenWidth;
bmi.bmiHeader.biHeight = nScreenHeight;
bmi.bmiHeader.biPlanes = 1;
bmi.bmiHeader.biBitCount = 32;
bmi.bmiHeader.biCompression = BI_RGB;

// Allocate a buffer to receive the pixel data.
RGBQUAD *pPixels = new RGBQUAD[nScreenWidth * nScreenHeight];

// Call GetDIBits to copy the bits from the device dependent bitmap
// into the buffer allocated above, using the pixel format you
// chose in the BITMAPINFO.
::GetDIBits(hCaptureDC,
            hCaptureBitmap,
            0,  // starting scanline
            nScreenHeight,  // scanlines to copy
            pPixels,  // buffer for your copy of the pixels
            &bmi,  // format you want the data in
            DIB_RGB_COLORS);  // actual pixels, not palette references

// You can now access the raw pixel data in pPixels.  Note that they are
// stored from the bottom scanline to the top, so pPixels[0] is the lower
// left pixel, pPixels[1] is the next pixel to the right,
// pPixels[nScreenWidth] is the first pixel on the second row from the
// bottom, etc.

// Don't forget to free the pixel buffer.
delete [] pPixels;

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