Getting Screenshots

[jsedlak]

To get screenshots of your or a game follow these instructions...

Open the project.
In Solution Explorer, right click on Solution and add a Project.
Select Windows Game Project, type in a name and hit ok.
Remove Game1.cs and Program.cs from the project.
Change any Project Properties to mimick those of the Zune game project.

Now the important part... right click on the project and hit Add -> Existing Item. For each item in the Zune project do this and hit the Down Arrow on the Add button and select "Add As Link".

Now in Game1.cs or whatever it is called add this code to the constructor...

#if WINDOWS
            graphics.PreferredBackBufferHeight = 320;
            graphics.PreferredBackBufferWidth = 240;
#endif

Build and run the game.

If you have errors, you may be able to solve them by wrapping the code in

#if ZUNE
#endif

This is especially true for the Media namespace.



Then just copy+paste a screengrab into an image editor.

[Tiptup300]

Doesn't always work, sometimes your using a zune-only library.

[jsedlak]

Originally Posted by Tiptup300

Doesn't always work, sometimes your using a zune-only library.

Hence reading the last part dealing with putting "#if ZUNE ... #endif" into code that is Zune only.

Anything dealing with graphics should be 1-1 between the two platforms.

[Tiptup300]

No, if you make a zune-library, it only works for zune games, if you use a windows-library, it only works with windows games.

[jsedlak]

Originally Posted by Tiptup300

No, if you make a zune-library, it only works for zune games, if you use a windows-library, it only works with windows games.

Ah, well you can use the same procedure to convert a library as well. It is how Thrust is maintained. My Zune library projects do nothing more than link to files in the Windows projects. I then add tags for platform specific code.