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[Feature Request] Turn off cleartype for capture, reactivate afterwards

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AStroP:
Hi!

First of all - and i must repeat myself, as i already said that for some of your other tools  :Thmbsup: - many thanx for this wonderful piece of software. One of my favorite tools at all!
Just one little thingy I miss. Would it be feasable to disable cleartype (or font smoothing in general) temporarily for the screenshot and reactivate it afterwards? On my TFT i usually work with cleartype enabled but these screenshots don't look very nice when viewed on a "normal" (or should i say old?  :))  CRT. I hope, i haven't simply missed this feature while searching through the inexplorable depths of the preferences.

Mouse, probably you already know that, but maybe i can save you a couple of minutes with these links:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/97142/en-us
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms724947.aspx
http://vbforums.com/showthread.php?t=491091

Apparently one has to use the SystemParametersInfo API. The relevant functions seem to be SPI_GETFONTSMOOTHING, SPI_SETFONTSMOOTHING, SPI_GETFONTSMOOTHINGTYPE, SPI_SETFONTSMOOTHINGTYPE.

Hope it can be done. At first glance it doesn't look too complicated, but i know, in reality usually things are different. :)

Andreas

AStroP:
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Mouse, probably you ...
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-AStroP (December 01, 2007, 01:55 PM)
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$&?§$!! Of course I meant to say "Mouser"! :-[ Sorry!

mouser:
this is not a bad idea..

an alternative solution would be to make options so you can tell sc to execute a commandline tool before it takes a screenshot, and then another afterwards.

that would let you use a commandline tool to turn off and on cleartype, or do anything else of a similar nature.

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