How to take screenshot in OpenGL

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This piece of code captures the OpenGL window and export to a BMP file. You must have FreeImage library to run it.

// Make the BYTE array, factor of 3 because it's RBG.
BYTE* pixels = new BYTE[3 * width * height];

glReadPixels(0, 0, width, height, GL_RGB, GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE, pixels);

// Convert to FreeImage format & save to file
FIBITMAP* image = FreeImage_ConvertFromRawBits(pixels, width, height, 3 * width, 24, 0x0000FF, 0xFF0000, 0x00FF00, false);
FreeImage_Save(FIF_BMP, image, "C:/test.bmp", 0);

// Free resources
FreeImage_Unload(image);
delete [] pixels;

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