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Screenshot Captor / Re: Scrolling Capture Deluxe Thread

« Last post by mouser on January 25, 2012, 09:32 PM »

Minor update -- function to grab all child controls now implemented.

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Living Room / Re: Google Ends Privacy

« Last post by mouser on January 25, 2012, 02:36 PM »

It's hard for me to get worked up about these privacy issues.. I'm not sure why, they just don't seem to bother me.

Now I happen to think google is out of control and harmful for other reasons i have written about -- and believe that their greed and need to dig their nails deep into every thing in order to ensure they can never be dislodged from their position as an unstoppable advertising machine is disgusting.  But the privacy stuff is the least of my concerns..

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Living Room / Re: All-In-One Multi-Touch Computers - Thoughts?

« Last post by mouser on January 25, 2012, 01:34 PM »

Can't ask her because of

I don't know.. does seem like if the computer is for her you might at least try to ask her if she would prefer a laptop or a desktop.  if you know you are going to get a desktop, then there is no real harm in getting an all-in-one touch screen pc for her -- for the extra bucks it seems like you might as well, for your planned use.  but what 40hz says about a laptop being a better fit for many people is really true, so i wouldn't dismiss that choice.. a laptop is after all the ultimate all-in-one.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Scrolling Capture Deluxe Thread

« Last post by mouser on January 25, 2012, 01:01 PM »

like adding an option to "capture all children windows/controls"

I know this is something people have asked for before.. i wonder if there are people still want this?

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Living Room / Re: All-In-One Multi-Touch Computers - Thoughts?

« Last post by mouser on January 25, 2012, 12:56 PM »

What 40hz says resonates with me.  The all-in-one touch computers seem like a great gadget to have on display for public use -- i want to mount one on my wall.  But I find it hard to imagine actually using the touch features when actually sitting down to use the computer.  Touch interface works well on an ipad or phone -- where what you are doing is playing and noodling about -- but not as a main computer.  just my 2 cents.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Scrolling Capture Deluxe Thread

« Last post by mouser on January 25, 2012, 11:52 AM »

Tip:  I've found that firefox (and maybe other tools) sometimes fails to scroll unless you click on the web page background before beginning the actually automatic scrolling process.  I'm going to try to figure out why and fix but just a heads up you may have to do this manually if you find it not scrolling.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Scrolling Capture Deluxe Thread

« Last post by mouser on January 25, 2012, 10:36 AM »

Ath, that is a good idea, but my first instinct is to minimize the options and features of that red box window that follows the cursor around, just because i worry about it being confusing.  Let's see if my new version is adequate.

New beta of Screenshot Captor is up that uses the new Scrolling Capture system:

https://www.donation...nshotCaptorSetup.exe

The new system is also used to capture "objects" even when you don't want to do scrolling.

In order to make workflow efficient, instead of the fun introductory dialog that was shown in the first scrolling capture implementation -- now you get the red box right away, and after you select an object you get a dialog.



One improvement in workflow is that it's now easier to understand how to do multiple OBJECT captures in a row -- useful if you want to grab various regions of a window -- and there is natural place for me to add features on window objects -- like adding an option to "capture all children windows", on the post-object-selection dialog.

Let me know what you think!

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Scrolling Capture Deluxe Thread

« Last post by mouser on January 24, 2012, 05:10 PM »

Why not keep the current selection method, and replace the old Scrolling capture with the New And Improved! Scrolling capture? Should leave any previous workflow the same, imho.

Yeah i guess that's mostly what i was suggesting.. The only change would be like so:

OLD METHOD:

Trigger an object/scrolling capture, see red box, move red box to where you want it, click for object capture, or shift+ctrl+click for scrolling capture, or menu for text capture.

NEW PROPOSED METHOD:

Trigger an object/scrolling capture, see red box, move red box to where you want it, click to select.  Then get presented with a dialog with your 3 choices of copy object/region previously selected, or do a scrolling capture of the region previously selected, or do a text capture of the object selected.

ANOTHER POSSIBILITY:

Trigger an object/scrolling capture, then get presented with a dialog with your 3 choices of copy object/region, or do a scrolling capture , or do a text capture, then get shown red box to position.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Scrolling Capture Deluxe Thread

« Last post by mouser on January 24, 2012, 04:51 PM »

Ok it's time for me to roll the scrolling capture code into Screenshot Captor itself.. Now i just have to decide how to deal with non-scrolling object capture..

In current SC, when you want to capture an object or scrolling object, you trigger object captor and then click differently if you want a scrolling capture.

I could keep that the same way, or i could have it pop up a dialog as soon as you say you want to do an object/scrolling capture asking which type.. But that could slow down the workflow.  On the other hand, I dont want to make it separate functions triggered by separate hotkeys..

I could have a multi-step process where first you select an object/region using a single method -- and then get asked whether you want to: 1) just copy the image of the object, or 2) begin a scrolling capture of the object, or 3) capture text of object.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Screenshot Captor - Watermarking Tool

« Last post by mouser on January 24, 2012, 09:33 AM »

that's terrific -- can I add it to the default SC install?

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Scrolling capture is not working

« Last post by mouser on January 23, 2012, 03:43 PM »

Any news on the new scrolling feature?

hell yes there is.

i've spent a week full time working on a complete rewrite of the most advanced scrolling capture in existence.  beta test is here:
https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=29550.0

it still has some improvements needed, especially in ease-of-use.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Screenshot Captor - Watermarking Tool

« Last post by mouser on January 23, 2012, 10:29 AM »

I think the main purpose of watermarking will be for people to add their own custom watermarking images, but does anyone have a good collection of public domain images that might be suitable for watermarking? (Like "Confidential", etc.).

If anyone wants to try the beta:
https://www.donation...nshotCaptorSetup.exe

Watermarking options are in the Special Effects options tab, and you apply a watermark from the SpecialFx menu.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Capturing partial screen area

« Last post by mouser on January 22, 2012, 09:18 PM »

sounds like you want to do a repeat-region capture, after you do the first one.
and turn on cursor capture from system tray.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Capturing partial screen area

« Last post by mouser on January 22, 2012, 08:28 PM »

Can you elaborate a little more what you want to do?

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Screenshot Captor / Screenshot Captor - Watermarking Tool

« Last post by mouser on January 22, 2012, 05:27 PM »

New watermarking function:

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Screenshot Captor Splice Tool

« Last post by mouser on January 20, 2012, 09:19 PM »

Obviously you have some options for the new ragged edge effect:







But again, more interesting than the BORDER effects is the fact that you can easily SPLICE OUT regions and have the ragged effect in the spliced-out region, as shown in a previous post.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Screenshot Captor Splice Tool

« Last post by mouser on January 20, 2012, 07:02 PM »

As mentioned above, crop can now be performed with some border effects:

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Screenshot Captor Splice Tool

« Last post by mouser on January 20, 2012, 01:48 PM »

New Splice effect teaser:





Now when you have to splice out something you should be able to at least make it look nice

These edge effects will work at the edge too of course, if you just need to crop:

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Developer's Corner / Re: The most insane review of Visual Studio 2010 I've ever read...

« Last post by mouser on January 20, 2012, 11:13 AM »

brilliant.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Screenshot Captor Splice Tool

« Last post by mouser on January 19, 2012, 04:11 PM »

New splice effects coming soon

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Living Room / Re: Sorry, This Post Has Been Censored

« Last post by mouser on January 19, 2012, 03:42 PM »

I think this nails it:

http://boingboing.ne...ssigs-salt-talk.html

"Lessig said the type of corruption rampant in the US Congress is not the old type of bribery, where congressional representatives had safes in their offices to hold the cash they received for voting in certain directions. That is now illegal and eliminated. This new type of corruption is more subtle, indirect and harder to outlaw…. the real money to be made in Congress is the relative fortune to be made as a lobbyist after leaving office. The differential in wages between a staff member and a lobbyist has escalated a hundred fold in the past 40 years. Now 43% of staff go on to become lobbyists. The promise of a well-paying job working for corporate interests later is enough to warp voting now."

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Scrolling Capture Deluxe Thread

« Last post by mouser on January 19, 2012, 03:11 PM »

Thank you very much for posting that walkthrough ewemoa!  

One suggested modification to your workflow:

Hit guess margins, THEN manually tweak them, THEN hit "guess overlaps"

Overlap guessing is based on margins, so tweaking them manually before guessing overlaps is advantageous.

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: A couple questions about Launchbar.

« Last post by mouser on January 19, 2012, 02:45 PM »

Regarding transparency -- have you tried the transparent background display option for the dock?

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: A couple questions about Launchbar.

« Last post by mouser on January 19, 2012, 02:01 PM »

Question 2: I set both the folder shortcuts to command node but now nothing happens when I click them

you need to put the directory in the field labeled "Application/Command"

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: A couple questions about Launchbar.

« Last post by mouser on January 19, 2012, 01:59 PM »

Is it possible to make the portion of the dock background that has icons to be a color while the unused portion of the dock background is transparent ?

This has been asked for by others -- this or to make the dock centered and only tall or wide enough to cover button area.  I am going to try to do this.