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Last post Author Topic: LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - ScreenshotCaptor - v4.42.0 beta - July 21, 2022  (Read 1195864 times)

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Keeps "losing" the margins I set

I am running v3.08.01 in portable mode and my print margins/position (e.g. center, top-left, bottom-right, etc.) are not getting saved between sessions; but the units are saved correctly.  These settings are only maintained until I exit the application.  I originally used 0.5 inches for all margins, but I have also tried 2 cm.  In both cases, all margins were reset to 1 (with the appropriate units) when I restarted the app.

Is this by design or is it a bug?

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It's not by design and i thought it was fixed, but i will check again.

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Re: LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - ScreenshotCaptor - v3.08.01 - July 6, 2012
« Reply #377 on: October 12, 2012, 01:34 PM »
Thanks (post below)... I finally found it -- right where you noted!  (Funny how that works!)  Thanks very much!
« Last Edit: October 12, 2012, 02:01 PM by Sniper308, Reason: Found the setting I needed to change. »

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Re: LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - ScreenshotCaptor - v3.08.01 - July 6, 2012
« Reply #378 on: October 12, 2012, 01:40 PM »
Absolutely there is.  Uncheck the checkbox labeled "Play Capture Sound" on the "Post-Capture Options" tab:
Screenshot - 10_12_2012 , 1_39_04 PM.png

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Re: LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - ScreenshotCaptor - v3.08.01 - July 6, 2012
« Reply #379 on: December 29, 2012, 02:26 PM »
I am using v 3.08.01

Since I last updated to this version, I have seen an issue that happens very frequently.

1) Right-click on SC Tray Icon and select "Grab selected region".
2) Click the "Gear" on the SC selection frame, and select "Object selection mode".
3) Select the desired object (IE Client Window) and let SC auto-size the frame to the object.
(Typically, I size the IE window so there is no left-right (Horizontal) scrolling required)
4) Click the "Gear" on the SC selection frame, and select "Capture Object with AutoScroll Now"
5) SC (usually) goes through the motions of scrolling the IE window correctly.
6) If SC didn't scroll the window correctly, then the captured image is incomplete (as expected). Usually forcing the "Focus" to the desired IE window and repeating the capture fixes this.
7) If SC DID scroll the window correctly, sometimes it will capture the image correctly, but sometimes it won't. Sometimes, I can try over and over, many times, and I continually get an incorrect image capture.

This has happened once in a great while with previous versions of SC, but with this version of SC, it happens frequently... about half the time.

Usually, when it fails, what I see is that the first (Top) frame of the capture is correct, and the lower frames that are scrolled into view are all (or mostly all) present, but some "bits" of the first (Top) frame are superimposed (overlaid) on-top of most (or all) of the lower frames.

Sometimes, it is big chunks of the first frame, and sometimes it is little-bits from the first frame.

Here is an example...
Using AutoScroll capture:
SC-04-Objcap-04---Screenshot-2012-1229-1116.13-AM.pngLATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - ScreenshotCaptor - v4.42.0 beta - July 21, 2022


Using multiple Selected area captures and manually stitched together:
SC-Selected-Stitched---Screenshot-2012-1229-1124.16-AM.pngLATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - ScreenshotCaptor - v4.42.0 beta - July 21, 2022


Here is the URL for the captured page:
example-captured-page


Please let me know if you need additional examples.

I wasn't planning to try the Beta version just yet, but if you think it might help, I'll try it.


Also, a minor point... After using SC to capture an IE9 page, sometimes it will leave a blue outline around (inside) the client area of IE as shown in the previous examples, and here:
SC-4 corners-03.pngLATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - ScreenshotCaptor - v4.42.0 beta - July 21, 2022

This doesn't happen every time and I have seen it with previous versions of SC. Refreshing the IE page removes the blue outline.


Kevin

Running Windows 7 Home Premium x64 w/Media Center
Capturing from IE9 x64

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Re: LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - ScreenshotCaptor - v3.08.01 - July 6, 2012
« Reply #380 on: February 18, 2013, 07:53 AM »
SSC red fixed region boundary lines make a slightly too small area - episodic bug?
When you press Shift+Ctrl+Prt Sc, red fixed region boundary lines automatically appear as a rectangle around the active window.
Sometimes these image boundary lines make for a slightly smaller area than that of the object selected.
This has only happened twice to me and is so far not something that I can deliberately invoke:
This is the image captured when the boundary lines made a slightly smaller area than that of the object selected:

SSC 01 - truncated NOT OK - 2013-1-29 Image 2038.jpgLATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - ScreenshotCaptor - v4.42.0 beta - July 21, 2022

Image captured via OneNote capture.

SSC 02 - what it truncated - 2013-1-29 Image 2039.jpgLATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - ScreenshotCaptor - v4.42.0 beta - July 21, 2022

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Thank you to everyone who helped beta test; version 4 has now been released:

v4.0 - March 26, 2013
  • [MajorFeature] Freehand painting/annotations; Like objects, can be edited after save.
  • [MajorFeature] New (dockable) QuickCapture bar.
  • [MajorFeature] Undo available for most object manipulation actions.
  • [MajorFeature] You can now specify custom comment in post-capture pop-up dialog; option to add caption for this comment and/or store it in image comments.
  • [MajorFeature] You can now capture shots from webcams (see Capture menu).
  • [MajorFeature] New super-easy-to-use built-in image host uploader (currently supports imm.io and imageshack [supports user accounts], more to come); you can still configure the use of ShareX or others if you prefer; warning given on first upload.
  • [Feature] You can now save and load your entire configuration settings to/from different files, to make it easy to switch between groups of settings [see new menubar on options dialog]
  • [Feature] You can now save all selected images to an animated GIF file.
  • [Feature] Added Quick Expand Canvas item in Edit menu for quickly expanding the canvas around the image, which can be useful for adding annotations, etc.
  • [Feature] You can now define your own custom list of preset sizes that will be available in all resizing/regionsizeselection dialogs and menus (thumbnailer, resizer, etc.).
  • [Feature] Resizing and selection options can now work by percentages; you can also include percentage based resizing presets.
  • [Feature] The last directory and file format used in the SaveAs dialog are now remembered; defaults to PNG format.
  • [Feature] When moving old files into the archive directory, ScreenshotCaptor now shows a summary balloon tray message.
  • [Feature] Active window selection and information capture is now smarter about choosing a window or sub-window within the capture region if capturing an area that does not include a foreground active window, or especially if performing an arbitrary region capture.  New option (See Window Capturing 1 options tab) to control this.
  • [Feature] Added more color options for captions (see Automatic Captions tab in options to set defaults); better captions during printing.
  • [Feature] You can now nudge objects in the same variety of ways you can use to adjust selection (use ctrl,shift,alt and arrow keys to move, grow, shrink); faster object nudging.
  • [Feature] Selecting and adjusting objects now shows their position and size in status bar -- makes it easier to do fine adjustments.
  • [Feature] Now provides tip on how to speed up saving with many objects and semi-transparency when GDI+ option is off.
  • [Feature] New option to flatten transparency during normal saving (PNG images will not exhibit transparency but will preserve it internally for editing).
  • [Feature] Added Edit menu item to copy current (or selected) image files to clipboard as shell file objects (useful for pasting in email programs, etc.).
  • [Feature] You can now drop files onto the main window and you will be prompted to make some choices (copy or move files into Screenshot directory, add image files as objects onto current image, or switch to the dropped file and path).
  • [Feature] Added option to check for updates at startup.
  • [Feature] In addition to creating animated gifs, you can now display them in SC and easily extract frames (works same as for video files).
  • [Feature] Added complete selection mode button to toolbar (lasso, freehand, magic wand, etc.)
  • [Feature] Added new options for handling large captions (enlarge size of caption box to accomodate wrapped text, auto-reduce font size).
  • [Feature] New option in interface tab to use chessboard pattern for background -- useful for working with transparent images (especially with transparent borders).
  • [Feature] Added new specialfx operation to remove text/noise inside selection region.
  • [Feature] You can now right-click on any clipart object and have it applied as a (tiled) background watermark; you can right-click clipart or frames and choose to view a preview in external viewer.
  • [Feature] Added blendmode property to bitmap objects.
  • [Feature] New option to tell SC not to save active window internal meta data to file comment meta data; useful if you are using images with an application that extracts and uses file comment meta data.
  • [Feature] New buttons added to toolbar (copy to clipboard, select/resize preset sizes, etc.)
  • [Feature] You can now configure what toolbar buttons to show.
  • [Feature] You can now "remember" (or clear) the currently selection region embedded in an image for subsequent use; see the Edit->Selection menu.
  • [Improvement] Major revamping of icons throughout the application by DC member Carroll D. (hamradio); Improvements to organization of menus.
  • [Improvement] Improved alpha transparency rendering when saving images or printing; especially useful when objects are over transparent or semitransparent areas.
  • [Improvement] Objects are now in front of paint layer.
  • [Improvement] Added new option to use GDI+ libraries for alternate implementation of alpha blending and transparency (may be significantly faster when using many objects).
  • [Improvement] Creating new blank image was not clearing transparency info; now uses transparency setting from resize dialog to decide whether to make new image pure opaque or pure transparent.
  • [Improvement] Faster saving when image does not have transparency.
  • [Improvement] Arrow text can now be edited in memo mode, which is more convenient for editing larger multi-line text.
  • [Improvement] Launching of second copy now highlights the tray icon.
  • [Improvement] Last used clipart directory is now remembered between runs.
  • [Improvement] Added more caption options, both in auto captions and in interactive caption dialog.
  • [Improvement] Text boxes can now specify custom border line widths;
  • [Improvement] Post-capture pop-up dialog now prints print-captions.
  • [Improvement] Better print captions for small images.
  • [Improvement] Post-capture pop-up dialog button improvements; remembers position better.
  • [Improvement] Re-organized option dialogs for better readability.
  • [Improvement] New options for post-capture dialog including options on where to show form, whether to show print previews, etc.
  • [Improvement] Added new post-cap option to copy file shell object to clipboard.
  • [Improvement] Repeat region capture will now repeat a caption of the region of the screen selected by a previous *object* capture.
  • [Improvement] Some operations that changed directories was not forcing save of dirty file first.
  • [Improvement] You can drag a folder onto the main window to instruct Screenshot Captor to switch to that directory.
  • [Improvement] Improved application startup time.
  • [Improvement] Added some tooltip hints to some controls.
  • [Improvement] SaveAs folder and format now remembered and used in all places where SaveAs dialog is shown.
  • [Improvement] SaveAs will now use default filename template, and default to a uniquified safe filename.
  • [Improvement] Added option to enable/disable the retrieval of URLs from browsers, and a note about possible slowdowns when doing so; disabled Firefox URL retrieval option by default since it can cause serious capture slowdowns.
  • [Improvement] The Moveto/Goto folder list is now kept in canonical state, handles blank lines, and has a new option to automatically add new folders to it, like a Most-recently-used list.
  • [Improvement] Setup program will now offer to launch Screenshot Captor after installation, even on Windows vista/7/8.
  • [Improvement] Better thumbnail panel sizing; no more horizontal scrollbar.
  • [Improvement] Faster saving of partially transparent images with objects.
  • [Improvement] When switching out of object mode, if an object was selected, it's bounding region becomes selected in normal mode; especially useful for applying effects.
  • [Improvement] If user tries to select a region in Object selection mode containing no objects, SC automatically switches to region selection mode and selects region.
  • [Improvement] Double-clicking an object in region-select mode will now switch to object mode and select the object under cursor; double-clicking in object mode toggles you back to normal region-select mode.
  • [Improvement] The Watermarking submenu of the SpecialFx menu now shows all files in the clipart directory with watermark in their path or name, plus all files in user watermark directory; this makes it easier for addon clipart to include watermarks; see also feature for quickly applying any clipart object as watermark.
  • [Improvement] Improved external tool configuration dialog.
  • [Improvement] Removed old clipart directory; packaged now with DC member App103's nice clipart; moved old clipart into a separate addon download; removed separted Masks directory and rearranged Frames directory.
  • [Improvement] Clicking on a clipart item shows it's full path in statubar.
  • [Improvement] SC now creates a MyClipart and MyFrames directories in the user-writable SC folder where configuration settings are stored, and adds this to the clipart (and watermark) and frame folder list.
  • [Improvement] SC no longer switches out of object mode when saving.
  • [Improvement] Ctrl+A in thumbnail file panel now only selects files (not folders).
  • [Improvement] SaveAs dialogs now have more advanced options that can be chosen for some image file formats.
  • [Improvement] Better tracking of object manipulation for undo actions; better reporting of undo actions and indications of where in undo stack you are (shown on statusbar); larger undo buffer (from 10 to 100).
  • [Improvement] Ctrl+A in object mode now selects all objects.
  • [Improvement] Grab Workspace item is now not shown in tray or quickcap bar if running on single monitor system.
  • [Improvement] Added color-modification options for clipart (see button at bottom of clipart object panel).
  • [Change] Improved menu item names.
  • [Change] Confirmation request when flattening objects to background.
  • [Change] SaveAs dialog now tries to do a faster preview in images with many objects.
  • [Change] Changed ordering of top toolbar buttons.
  • [Change] SC no longer tries to delete objects that are cropped out.
  • [Change] When you change screenshot directories, the "Autocreate JUNK folder" option is disabled, as is the "Auto move old files" option.
  • [Change] Options dialog now has an "Apply" button to test apply any pending options changes.
  • [Change] The internal file comment that specifies last active window region is now written at END of file comment meta data, and is only written if its non-empty.
  • [BugFix] Updated ScDx ScreenshotCaptor DirectX capture addon (separate download).
  • [BugFix] Last non-public beta release was not using unique %num% counters.
  • [BugFix] Capturing windows file explorer was not seeing window title (path).
  • [BugFix] Captions were not sometimes leaving a pixel wide gap at bottom and right of image.
  • [BugFix] Improved flattening of objects and saving of standard file formats with objects+paint.
  • [BugFix] Nudging objects was not marking image as changed; nudging objects is now much faster.
  • [BugFix] Object arrows could reverse direction when image was resized or cropped or objects nudged; changing canvas size could sometimes lose arrow objects.
  • [BugFix] Save selected region as new file was not working right.
  • [BugFix] Functions to select region around objects and expand canvas around objects were not working right.
  • [BugFix] Copy image to clipboard was not properly handling object layering.
  • [BugFix] Fixing bug where application would forget it's non-maximized size+position on screen between runs.
  • [BugFix] When antialiasing enabled, highlight boxes and text memos had a thin colored border even if border option for the object was disabled.
  • [BugFix] Sometimes when changing zoom it would not reapply antialias settings.
  • [BugFix] Sometimes font setting was being reset to default.
  • [BugFix] Finally found and fixed bug that was occasionally causing some preferences (like object defaults) to be reset to defaults between runs.
  • [BugFix] Improved border width around memos; effect of changing memo properties is now immediately visible.
  • [BugFix] MoveTo folder list was corrupting long file paths.
  • [BugFix] Hitting 'c' in region capture mode to set cursor position was sometimes leaving corruption overlayed on capture.
  • [BugFix] When loading low-depth PNG files (or perhaps other non-png files), any alpha transparency added to background would not be saved.
  • [BugFix] Some operations involving selection of files behaved erratically if thumbnail panel was configured to be hidden.
  • [BugFix] Rotating bitmaps now respects aspect ratios.
  • [BugFix] Top labels for zoom percentages were overlapping on large-text setups.
  • [BugFix] Program was never saving changes on exit, regardless of the option to do so.
  • [BugFix] Arrow objects could sometimes be created where the lines would be invisible.
  • [BugFix] Fixed floating point exception that could occur if bitmap object was resized to 0 height or width.
  • [BugFix] SC was not releasing hotkeys when you are on hotkeys configuration page, making it hard to reassign hotkeys; they are now disabled when on this tab.
  • [BugFix] When scanning, scan DPI information was not always being saved in the resulting PNG file, which could cause printable page size to be wrong if image files were manipulated or combined at a later time.
  • [BugFix] Some of the MoveALL and DeleteALL menu items were not always affecting all files if some were selected and some were not.
  • [BugFix] Print margins, alignment, gamma, were not being saved between runs.
  • [BugFix] When moving/copying/renaming files between folders entirely within the thumbnail browser panel (not using SC menus), the .object files associated with images were not accompanying image files.
  • [BugFix] SaveAs dialog was not displaying the "remove metadata?" checkbox on all Save As invocations.
  • [BugFix] Redo was not working on object manipulations.
  • [BugFix] Fixed bug where post-capture form could leave a remnant taskbar entry on closing [thanks app!]
  • [BugFix] Fixed some cases where main SC window was either hiding or grabbing focus after a capture when it shouldn't.
  • [BugFix] Fixed problems with shutting down on windows 7 and higher during reboots or upgrades.
  • [MajorFeature] Preliminary support for playing video files and extracting frames from them; and integration with Easy Screencast Recorder.
  • [MajorFeature] First draft of new (optional) onscreen quick capture bar.  The look+feel of this will change dramatically in future versions.
  • [MinorFeature] Will now autodetect and work with SharexMod in addition to ShareX (they are based on same codebase and the differences are not super clear).
  • [InterfaceChange] New hierarchical organization of options dialog.
  • [BugFix] When capturing the active window and main form was visible, SC sometimes failed to properly grab it; SC now does a better job of grabbing last active window, with less delay in reactivating it.
  • [BugFix] Scrolling capture dialog could hide behind main window.
  • [MinorImprovement] Scrolling capture dialog now has help button that links to online scrolling capture tutorial video.
  • [Improvement] Small performance improvement in dragging selection (can still be slow to update tweaking selection size when zoomed out and resize filter is enabled).
  • [BugFix] Scrolling the clipart (or frame) thumbnail panel very quickly could result in error about "List Index Out of Bounds".
  • [Feature] Added new %numinc% field with a resetable persistent counter in options (see File Naming Template tab).
  • [BugFix] Zoom and Navigation panel could be inadvertently scaled by mouse wheel.
  • [BugFix] Minor spelling errors on tooltip hints corrected.
  • [MinorChange] Ctrl+A now should work in comment memo to select all text.
  • [Change] Full filename (not short version) is now sent to ShareX uploader tool.

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Congratulations on Version 4 Mouser.  :beerchug:
It has to feel good for you to get there. That's one looooong list of new features, improvements and fixes.

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Thanks very much bob -- I couldn't have done it without you and the other beta testers -- and app103 and hamradio especially.
It's a weight off my shoulders.

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By the way:
I've uploaded the whirlwind tour video for the new version 4:

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Congratulations!  And thank you.   :Thmbsup:

SC 4.0 has already received a good review from ghacks.net here.

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 :Thmbsup:
...and Thanks Too!

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Thanks folks!

One thing I'd like to ask people who use and like Screenshot Captor, is if you see it on a software listing site or on a review without recent user comments -- please consider adding a comment/review and letting people know it's a good program.  It helps to let readers know that there are people who like it and it's sad when i see a listing for SC without a user comment in years.

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Not a review but an update on the XYplorer forum.
Thread on different screenshot programs used by members.

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Thanks for this latest release.
Some nifty new features that I am still exploring here...
Sorry to report that I seem to be able to make SSC crash repeatedly by deleting the file icons (for capture files that I want to delete) down the LHS of the main screen.
The first time it did it, there was a message with an access violation error.
After that it just kept crashing with the same message:
[Window Title]
Screenshot Captor

[Main Instruction]
Screenshot Captor has stopped working

[Content]
A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Windows will close the program and notify you if a solution is available.

[Close program]

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Hi Ian.

Can you tell me in what manner you deleted the files? did you select them and hit the delete key, or use right click menu, or use the File -> Delete selected item.  What Operating System do you have?

Can you reliably reproduce the problem? Any clues you could give me as to when it happens and when it doesn't would be greatly appreciated.
« Last Edit: March 29, 2013, 12:28 PM by mouser »

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OS = Win7-64 Home Premium.
I was using SSC to capture screenshots of the Windows Calculator, and I deleted those I did not want by clicking on the file icon in the LHS of the window, and then using the Delete key. Crash.
Restarted SSC, did another delete. Crash. Rinse and repeat.
After the third or fourth successive crash, I captured the error message (as in my post above).

I just did it again to check (2013-03-30 0646hrs). Started up SSC (after its last crash), took a screenshot of the calculator; deleted the screenshot file. Exact same result. Crashes a couple of seconds right after the Delete action.
So, yes, it looks like I can reproduce it consistently.
I can't explain it.
There's nothing else buggy in my system, and I am using all my other usual applications just fine.

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That's great news that you can reproduce -- that should help me solve it if you continue to be willing to test.
Can you test the same kind of actions but using the File->Delete menus instead if the delete key? And let me know if you can get it to crash when you use those delete items on the menu, or if it only happens when using the delete key.

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Sorry, just got around to going to read DCF posts and saw your request ^.
This should be more helpful.
It just so happens that some of my screenshots of the Calculator are .bmp files (not sure how I did that - was by accident), and some are .png files.

To test things, I have just performed lots of deletions, and restored them from the Recycle Bin, and deleted them again, etc.
Results:
1. Deleting .bmp and/or .png (one or more at a time) from any of the menu File delete  choices does not seem to cause any problems, so far.

2. However, when deleting using the Delete key as before:
  • The crashes ONLY ever occur via this method.
  • The file(s) is(are) deleted (to Recycle Bin), and then SSC crashes.
  • However: SSC ONLY crashes when a .PNG file is deleted.
  • That is: SSC does not crash on a single/multiple .bmp file delete.
  • If a .bmp and a .png file are deleted together at the same time, then a SSC crash occurs. So it seem to be that the presence of a .PNG file in the deletions is what ensures the crash will occur.

That looks like progress, to me.

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Why isn't an announcement in either "Official Announcements"
or at least "DC Member Programs and Projects".
SC 4.0 certainly deserves the attention, it's a big upgrade and sets the standard higher for other screenshot capture software.

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Just spotted this (as a result of recommending the program to a colleague) on the main ScreenshotCaptor page:

Ability to embed textual comments in files or add attractiv captions to images and printouts.

Oddly, the missing 'e' attracted my attention, so maybe it's an attractive misspelling in more ways than one ;)
-- bests, Tim

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Thanks for the heads up oblivion.

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Several important fixes in latest release:

v4.3.0 - April 22, 2013
  • [Improvement] Clipboard toolbar button now includes some clipboard paste actions.
  • [Improvement] Save and open dialogs are now resizable.
  • [Improvement] Holding shift when triggering delete actions now bypasses recycle bin (conforms with standard windows behavior).
  • [Improvement] You can now set the custom character used to replace illegal filename characters (default is '_')
  • [Improvement+BugFix] Previously, the post-capture pop-up dialog operated on the image PRIOR to any alpha-transparency fixups that were applied to an active window capture; this could result in black areas around images that you copied to clipboard from within the postcapture dialog.  Now such operations are performed prior to display in the post-capture dialog -- Thanks BillS!
  • [Change] If you try to trigger an active window capture from system tray menu you now get a message explaining that you can't trigger it that way.
  • [BugFix] Previous version was deleting old settings files into the recycle bin.
  • [BugFix] Random or black 1-pixel sized borders could appear at bottom and/or right border of image if anti-aliasing is enabled and an object with shadows is placed near bottom of image.
  • [BugFix/Change] Mask files should now end in the extension of the mask file format ("e.g. hands.png.maskjpg" if the mask is in jpg format; you can also use maskpng and maskgif)

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Wow.  Mouser, I came back to download the latest and greatest as it's been a while since I've checked in and updated SC.  Your improvements are tremendous!  I totally love:
auto-upload to imageshack (no need for zloader anymore)
new/improved special effects (love the splce, glow, and others)
love the little toolbar option that docks to my top screen.  I'm typically a keyboard shortcut guy (yes, I know, we drive you batty), but the toolbar is there when I need and hidden when I don't.

To be honest, I ran into a few issues with the program a while ago and just never found the time to work with you to correct the crashes/issues.  I started using ShareXMod which I liked but missed one real key feature yours has is that it saves the screenshot and the objects separately......so I can find an old screenshot and change some of the embellishments I did in SC.  So I came back....to a brand new version of SC with oodles of goodies.  I've been using 4.0 (just updated to 4.3 today) without any of the errors I experienced before.....so I am a happy camper.  I'm sure you get lots of people who gush, but it never hurts to hear good things over and over.  I use screenshots at work daily, and your features make for a very nice professional screenshot.  There are a lot of tools out there in this arena, but since I've been a DC member, I found SC to always have the best features and a very responsive developer.