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Developer's Corner / Re: Who wants to experience C# depths of hell and evilness? (directx code)

« Last post by mouser on February 10, 2012, 02:56 AM »

Full screen directx capture from SC is now working.. barely.  Stay tuned.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Who wants to experience C# depths of hell and evilness? (directx code)

« Last post by mouser on February 09, 2012, 10:00 PM »

Update:

It looks like the c# code actually did work after a reboot after the gac global assembly cache registration.

SO although it's an ugly process to register the assemblies and reboot, I am going to see if I can't hook this into Screenshot Captor as a first test of DirectX capturing.

Stay tuned.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Screenshot Captor Idea - Monitor other folders and steal images from them

« Last post by mouser on February 09, 2012, 09:53 PM »

Interesting idea.

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Screenshot Captor / Screenshot Captor Idea - Monitor other folders and steal images from them

« Last post by mouser on February 09, 2012, 09:40 PM »

I had a fun idea which wouldn't be hard to implement but I'm not sure if there is any real use for it.

The idea was to let you configure some directories that Screenshot Captor will watch -- and when it sees a new image file in any of those directories it would move (or copy) it into the Screenshot Captor Screenshot directory.

Anyone have any actual real use for this (as opposed to simply thinking it sounds like a fun idea)?

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Screenshot Captor Fails to capture X-Plane screenshots

« Last post by mouser on February 09, 2012, 08:51 PM »

Something is very odd -- I've tried Gadwin Printscreen and found absolutely no improvement of it in terms of capturing directx full screen stuff.  So something else must be going on.

Can you explain how you are capturing the image of x-plane in the case where it fails with screenshot captor but works with the other tool?

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Hotkey to 'Restore Main Window?'

« Last post by mouser on February 09, 2012, 02:12 PM »

I was wondering if anyone would spot that.. Good eyes there..

I posted an update here.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Who wants to experience C# depths of hell and evilness? (directx code)

« Last post by mouser on February 09, 2012, 02:11 PM »

Update:

I spent all day on directX capture stuff and basically got my a** kicked by it.  I thought that I had come up with a clever technique to grab directX windows, but it turns out that it just won't work for full screen directX apps, which is the only one thing that's important since SC will capture windowed directx fine.  SO in short we are back to this hook injection code I linked to above.  It should theoretically work to do the job, but is a bit nasty and requires registered a global assembly (like registering a system DLL); What would be really ideal is for someone to convert that C# code to C++..

Anyway, what I ended up doing is adding a kind of protocol to interface a 3rd party commandline screenshot grabbing tool, which SC will invoke and then grab the resulting screenshot and treat it like one of it's own (put it in right directory, name it properly, do post processing on it, show post-cap dialog if appropriate, handle hotkey stuff for it, etc.).  SO.. basically what I have now is a placeholder for a fullscreen directx commandline capture tool, ready to drop one in as soon as someone codes it. [As an aside this functionality could also be used for some different 3rd party "capture" tool if someone wanted to write one to do something like capture from a remote device, etc.).

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Hotkey to 'Restore Main Window?'

« Last post by mouser on February 09, 2012, 12:28 PM »

You can set a hotkey for it, here:

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FlipSuite and Flipbook Printer / Re: Suggests to improve Flipsuite

« Last post by mouser on February 09, 2012, 12:25 PM »

welcome to the site giovpres.

some good ideas.

i do want to add some special effects/enhancements for improving color and maybe adding some effects.
subtitle .srt file i dont know about that.. but i am planning on adding some text overlay options.. maybe some scrolling text.
and i do want to add a way to specify a background "frame" shape.
i did add a feature a while ago for double sided printing to put 2 flipbooks on either side.

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General Software Discussion / Re: screenshot of big windows

« Last post by mouser on February 09, 2012, 12:21 PM »

Note: I did not pay kalos or tomos for these posts 

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Release: Color Warlock

« Last post by mouser on February 08, 2012, 02:31 PM »

very nice.  love the dynamic color swatches.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Who wants to experience C# depths of hell and evilness? (directx code)

« Last post by mouser on February 08, 2012, 02:16 AM »

None of those methods do what needs to be done to capture direct x.
It's quite confusing -- but the DIRECTX methods of screen capture (which the codeproject tutorial does) is not the same as capturing from a running directx app.

To do the later you need to inject a dll into the target process and reroute directx rendering functions.  And it has to be done differently for different directx versions..

The first link I posted has everything that *should* be needed to make it work.. If it could be made to work..


Don't get me wrong, I'd *MUCH* rather have C++ code than C# for this, but i haven't found any good code for c++.   Converting this code to C++ might still be the best way to go..

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Living Room / Re: IRLDD NYC - Martin and app103

« Last post by mouser on February 07, 2012, 11:21 PM »

Awesome 

Thanks for sharing the meeting with us 

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Developer's Corner / Who wants to experience C# depths of hell and evilness? (directx code)

« Last post by mouser on February 07, 2012, 11:01 PM »

So i spent a good portion of today trying to get this code to compile and work:
http://spazzarama.wo...-11-using-api-hooks/

I did eventually manage to get it to COMPILE AND RUN (but not work) on windows xp; trying to do so on win7 was an epic adventure in frustration and anger.

I swear I will never ever ever be able to comprehend how Microsoft managed to make .net building so insanely prone to such an evil convoluted hell of incompatible versions, insane dependency strangeness, UAC pain, and just a general all around insane mess of deployment and execution.  They took some very nice language design and made it a cesspool of evilness when you actually want to run the stuff.  I have said it a million times -- nothing that Microsoft does makes sense unless you assume that half the employees are saboteurs absolutely devoted like samurai to destroying the company.

Hell is other people's code.

ANYWAY.. I beg you not to embark on trying to get that code to actually build and work (that is capture directx screenshots) -- because i don't want to inflict the pain on you.  And I am warning you it requires dlls and installing an additional "assembly" (slimdx).

BUT..

If you do manage to get it to work please let me know, i'd love to modify this to be a standalone commandline c# directx window grabber that I could invoke from my Screenshot Captor tool.  (or even better, convert the code to c++).

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ProcessTamer / Re: 64bit process not being up in vista 64

« Last post by mouser on February 07, 2012, 07:18 PM »

Sounds like i need to make a new build of PT.

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ProcessTamer / Re: 64bit process not being up in vista 64

« Last post by mouser on February 07, 2012, 02:29 PM »

So it's not even being listed in the list of running processes in Process Tamer, even when you have the checkbox to only show >1% cpu processes?

Or are you saying it's being listed but not tamed?

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Screenshot Captor Fails to capture X-Plane screenshots

« Last post by mouser on February 06, 2012, 10:05 PM »

regarding this comment:

You can always grab/save a full screen using the game's built-in features, then open the image using ScreenShot Capture and do any editing/markup.

i just wanted to make a related point:

If any program ever puts a screenshot image file into Screenshot Captor's directory, it will be automatically detected by Screenshot Captor and you will be able to use it just as if it was taken by Screenshot Captor itself.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Links to Reviews and Comments - Add yours!

« Last post by mouser on February 06, 2012, 06:44 PM »

Thanks rg!! 

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: Launch Ignores Exe.Config

« Last post by mouser on February 06, 2012, 04:23 PM »

I have some new launching options that I need to put into place in LBC in the next release.  Hopefully that will fix things -- if not i'll have another look.

One thing you could try though is to create a .bat file that launches the app -- can you see if having LBC launch the .bat file solves the problem you are having? if so that would at least be a clue.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Screenshot Captor Fails to capture X-Plane screenshots

« Last post by mouser on February 06, 2012, 04:21 PM »

I could try to add some directx capturing code to screenshot captor.. I may do that.. But my understanding is that it's a messy area where lots can go wrong.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Screenshot Captor "best in class" on FreewareGenius

« Last post by mouser on February 06, 2012, 02:05 PM »

Thank you for the post and the kind words jaden.  It means a lot to me to hear people like the software and like DC.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Links to Reviews and Comments - Add yours!

« Last post by mouser on February 06, 2012, 01:02 PM »

And here comes Freeware Genius with a wonderful writeup of Version 3:
http://www.freewareg...ght-just-be-the-one/

The verdict: there are two or three free screenshot taking apps that are the best (PicPick comes to mind); but Screenshot Captor is undoubtedly the leader of the pack.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Links to Reviews and Comments - Add yours!

« Last post by mouser on February 06, 2012, 12:07 PM »

The SC Version 3 release got a nice big write up by Nick Peers at BetaNews today:
http://betanews.com/...ransparency-effects/

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Screenshot Captor / Re: LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - ScreenshotCaptor - v3.0 (!) - Feb 5, 2012

« Last post by mouser on February 06, 2012, 11:44 AM »

Undo doesn't work on blur splice effect -- On my todo list to fix.  I'll check into object position adjustment during splicing.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - ScreenshotCaptor - v3.0 (!) - Feb 5, 2012

« Last post by mouser on February 06, 2012, 12:32 AM »

does it happen reliably every time? or only rarely? any clues? i'm having a hard time reproducing it.
EDIT: ok i'm seeing it on win7.  working on it.

Ok i see the problem. Fixing.

Should be fixed now.  Would you mind re-downloading again and tell me if it's solved?