I am interested in ‘capturing’ screens in order to include in documentation. I suppose that I could use the OnFlush event. Is there a way to write the display byte array to a BMP file (or GIF or JPG)?
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Write to bitmap file is easy, you may just need add 54 bytes bmp header.
For GIF or JPG, we only support read and decode, not encode from array.
@trichins has a great idea here. Can we add something to the media NuGet to support making bitmaps?
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yes, we can.
Up vote on this too. Being able to grab quality images for documents would be good. Taking shots from an SLR on a tripod doesn’t give the best image.
The ideal way is to grab these via the USB port? Is this possible?
If image buffer is available could a version of VNC server be created to allows remote access to the device screen?
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You can do VNC today. I love the idea.
Is VNC already in TinyCLR? 
No but I was hoping you are the one to add 
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skeller, have you made a VNC server yet? 
Gus, do you plan to support jpeg or png encoding in TinyCLR 2 ?
As a stretch goal, yes. We need a serious commercial need for any feature to be added at a priority.
and VNC Server - stretch goal?
We have not seen a single serious commercial inquiry about this. But I personally would love to see it.
Great! Now we need a champion to jump in and port to TinyCLR
I am not getting the OnFlush event. How do I enable it ?
Please see the example for SPI display
http://docs.ghielectronics.com/software/tinyclr/tutorials/displays.html
http://docs.ghielectronics.com/software/tinyclr/tutorials/graphics.html
I have reviewed the tutorials. I see the OnFlushEvent handler shown. But somewhere, I need to "register’ my handler?
Can’t find the SPI display example