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Screenshot Captor / Re: SSC thinking it's first-run on Windows startup?

« on: January 20, 2011, 10:49 PM »

Do you think this weirdness could be related?

yes.  are you sure its actually running the copy that you are looking at?  is it possible you have ANOTHER copy of SC hiding somewhere?

-mouser (January 20, 2011, 10:24 PM)

Yes, that's the copy running.  The only one installed.

According to the ConfigDir.ini, the default is to store settings in the app folder, and I haven't told it otherwise.

im not sure what you mean by default in the app folder.. on windows vista and win 7 the default will be in your MyDocuments subdirectory.
that could be your problem.

you could try exiting, deleting the configdir.ini file and starting up screenshot captor and the screenshotcaptor.ini files, then restart. then exit.
then try to find the NEW screenshotcaptor.ini file created just then.

-mouser (January 20, 2011, 10:26 PM)

Ah, I was going by the comments in ConfigDir.ini:

// By default it is normally set to the program directory itself, meaning
//  that all configuration/ini/settings/preferences will be store here
//  with this ConfigDir.ini file

My guess is this installation folder has been around since XP, then Vista, then Win7.  Maybe having those old settings in the app directory is confusing things.  BTW the ScreenshotCaptor.ini in the My Documents folder is being successfully written.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: SSC thinking it's first-run on Windows startup?

« on: January 20, 2011, 10:16 PM »

Well, that setting is set to false.  Interesting, I assume you're persisting GUI control settings directly, and this is a checkbox somewhere in options?  When I opened the Options dialog to check, in the Startup/Shutdown section, I noticed neither Start with Windows or Start Minimized are checked -- yet it does start with Windows!  I've not added it manually to the Startup group or the registry, but it's there in HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run, even without these startup checkboxes checked.

Do you think this weirdness could be related?

The ScreenshotCaptor.ini file has a Last Modified date of November 18, 2008.  So I check the setting to startup with Windows and exited SSC, but the file modified date didn't change -- could it be writing the file elsewhere?  According to the ConfigDir.ini, the default is to store settings in the app folder, and I haven't told it otherwise.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: SSC thinking it's first-run on Windows startup?

« on: January 20, 2011, 09:57 PM »

hi dmorris,

It saves its first use flag in its settings file (ScreenshotCaptor.ini), so it sounds to me like its having trouble saving this file, or trying to save it to a wrong/protected location.

Did you by change move over your settings file from another pc, or do you use the ConfigDir.ini file to try to make the program portable?  

-mouser (January 20, 2011, 09:37 PM)

No, I've not moved or edited any config files by hand, nor tried to make it portable.  However it's very likely that my configuration files & install folder date back to other versions of Windows, probably back to my XP days since I've been using SSC a long time.  My apps are on another drive from my OS, so whenever I've upgraded OSes or PCs, I reinstall apps to their existing folders on the app drive, therefore some settings and files will be quite old if they're not overwritten.

And I'm running as an Admin account with UAC disabled, so there should be no protected file/registry areas.  Nothing is installed to Program Files anyway, my SSC is installed to D:\Tools\Graphics\ScreenshotCaptor.  I'm looking through ScreenshotCaptor.ini now -- which setting controls first-run?

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Screenshot Captor / SSC thinking it's first-run on Windows startup?

« on: January 20, 2011, 09:24 PM »

Maybe nobody else is seeing this as I don't see a report.  But about every 2nd or 3rd time I boot up (or 4th, or 5th, and sometimes several times in a row -- it varies), when the Windows desktop loads the SSC edit window pops up showing the last SS I took.  Then when I close it, the SSC balloon tip in the task tray pops up to "welcome" me to SSC, as if this was the first time I had installed it and rebooted.  It started doing this maybe 6-9 months ago?  Don't remember.  At first I didn't think much of it, but however many updates later it still does it, and it has become annoying.

Is it writing a "first run" registry entry somewhere that's getting hosed maybe?

I'm running Win7 Ultimate x64, btw.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Autoscroll capture still needs work

« on: January 19, 2009, 09:41 AM »

Well, I just tried again and can't reproduce the problem.   

All I can say is when I first reported it, I had tried numerous times with both browsers, resizing the browsers to different widths to change the height of the scrollable region, and it happened every time.  Don't know if SC was in some confused state that a reboot apparently cleared up, or if Gmail changed their dynamic code.

Either way, disregard the report for now.  If it happens again, I'll update this thread.  Thanks!

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Screenshot Captor / Autoscroll capture still needs work

« on: December 19, 2008, 11:29 AM »

Normally, SC works great.  It even works well for a lot of auto-scroll captures too.  I still get the ugly flashing black regions, but everything is restored after the capture.  However sometimes, and this bit me again today, it looks like it's going through the auto-scroll motions as it should, but the resulting capture is incorrect.

Today, I had reason to capture an image of my Spam folder view from GMail.  At first I thought it captured fine, but then looked closer and noticed otherwise.  After several attempts, I would always get one of two results:  either it would only capture the visible region and not the hidden region, or it captured the visible portion of the region, and the bottom few hundred pixels, but everything in between was missing.  To illustrate this latter case with some crude text, given a scrolling region laid out like so (with the bold lines being visible, the rest scrolled out of view):

AAAAA
BBBBB
CCCCC
DDDDD
EEEEE
FFFFF
GGGGG
HHHHH

what I get when i capture is something like

AAAAA
BBBBB
CCCCC
GGGGG
HHHHH

Make sense?  I suppose I could work up a graphic or post the actual screenshot, but I figured that would get the point across. 

BTW I tried it in both IE7 and FF3, running XP Pro SP3.  I also tried starting the capture from the bottom and middle of the scroll region.  Starting at the top usually resulted in only the top visible region captured.  Starting at bottom or middle gave the result with the middle content missing.

EDIT: Slight correction and clarification:  upon further examination, it always captures some of the very bottom of the region.  When I start the capture from the top of the region, it includes maybe the bottom 200 pixels (rough estimate) of the scroll region.  When starting at the bottom or middle, it captures maybe twice as much from the bottom, perhaps 400 pixels.  This is at a total vertical resolution of 1200 pixels.  In both cases everything between that and the topmost portion is missing.