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Screenshot Captor / Re: Screenshot Captor - How to improve image quality?
« Last post by mouser on April 29, 2019, 01:36 PM »
Now, if you find that when SC displays a large image by fitting it on your screen for display that it seems too blurry for your tastes, you can adjust the algorithm used for that on the Interface Option tab:
Screenshot - 4_29_2019 , 1_33_31 PM.png

The description on that tab will explain it a bit to you.  Again, your options there ONLY effect how screenshot captor displays images in its window when they are too big to fit on screen.  They do *not* effect the quality of the captured screenshot, which will always be perfect when you share it, mail it, print it, etc.

So again, the quality of the saved image is always going to be 100% lossless perfect copy of your screen when saved to disk and manipulated.  If there is any bluriness it is an artifact of the algorithm used to shrink the image temporarily in order to display it at a smaller size. 
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Screenshot Captor / Re: Screenshot Captor - How to improve image quality?
« Last post by mouser on April 29, 2019, 01:32 PM »
Now, as for quality of screenshot, there are a couple of things to note:

First, make sure you are saving in PNG format for screenshots (the only exception to this would be if you are capturing mostly photographs and want small file sizes).

PNG is a LOSSLESS format, which means that the image will be an EXACT copy of what you see on the screen, with no blurriness or loss of quality.

HOWEVER, what does confuse people sometimes is that when a large image (say of your whole desktop) is DISPLAYED on the screen and has to be reduced in size, there are different ways to display the smaller version of the screenshot which may look more or less blurry on the screen.

It's important to realize this is only effecting the quality of the DISPLAY of the image at that size, not the inherent quality of the stored image.

You can see that by clicking on the upper right of the Screenshot Captor main window and going to 100% zoom, which will show you the original image quality, rather than the image reduced in size for display.
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Screenshot Captor / Re: Screenshot Captor - How to improve image quality?
« Last post by mouser on April 29, 2019, 01:28 PM »
The DPI setting (as it says on that dialog in the description) does *NOT* effect quality of captured or saved images, it only effects printing.  The default values for that dialog in Screenshot captor are as follows and can be left as is:
Screenshot - 4_29_2019 , 1_28_24 PM.png
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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: CLIPBOARD HELP+SPELL LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - v2.45.0 beta - Apr 28, 2019
« Last post by mouser on April 29, 2019, 12:43 AM »
 :up:
and remind me if you have any pending feature requests...
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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: CLIPBOARD HELP+SPELL LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - v2.45.0 - Apr 28, 2019
« Last post by mouser on April 28, 2019, 09:56 AM »
Beta v2.45 Apr 28, 2019

Download:

v2.45.1 - Apr 27, 2019
  • [MinorImprovement] Excerpt of last clip is now shown in print menu item caption
  • [BugFix] Crash could occur if manually editing a clip field and then typing something in search bar
  • [Feature] You can now specify a list of applications to monitor the keyboard from, with all others being ignored.
  • [MinorImprovement] Minor optimizations/improvements to last active window information.
  • [Feature] You can now set a hotkey to copy the text under the cursor (by triggering a Ctrl+C) and then APPENDING it to last clip.  Useful for building up clips.
  • [BugFix] Sometimes the text put on the clipboard from an ignored application could be stored after switching to another application.
  • [MinorImprovement] Clarified instructions on Capture Options about last active window.
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Find And Run Robot / Re: Use of Variables inside Aliases
« Last post by mouser on April 26, 2019, 06:18 PM »
There are also alternative ways to do what you want, that might be less advanced but easier to maintain.
For example, FARR is very happy to let you make lists of items, either in an alias or even in a separate file, and then filter based on them.

So if you make an alias called "users" that just had a list of your users and their associated web urls like:
Code: Text [Select]
  1. alice | http://www.mypage.com/user/1
  2. bob | http://www.mypage.com/user/2
  3. etc.

The advantage of doing it that "simpler" way is that you could type "users" and see a list of all your user urls, and then type "users b" to have it start filtering only users starting with b, or just type "users bob" and hit enter without thinking.  This also has the advantage of being less sensitive to spelling errors and helping you remember user names, etc.

There may be cases where using complex variables and regular expressions make sense, but it may be that sometimes just using a simple list of labeled results is cleaner.  You could also put that list in a text file and tell farr alias to grab the list from the text file so you could more easily update it outside of farr..
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Find And Run Robot / Re: Use of Variables inside Aliases
« Last post by mouser on April 26, 2019, 06:13 PM »
Hi Xavi_8m, and welcome to the site  :Thmbsup:

I'm glad you are liking FARR -- you sure jumped right into the advanced stuff :)
I think I should be able to fix your problem -- sounds like it's just a matter of the order that FARR replaces variables and regex values, and that regex $$n values should be resolved first.
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Developer's Corner / Re: HTML Webpage to show slides; e.g. <video ...> <source ...> ... </video>
« Last post by mouser on April 25, 2019, 10:57 PM »
I see, let me, does the slide show have transitions that move the images during transitions, or is is just a solid image appears and then eventually switches to another one without any transition (fade, slide, etc.).
If this is the case, you should be able to find some mp4 or other video codec that compresses it well.
But if you have transitions between the images, then any video format you use is likely to result in a significantly bigger file.

In that case (or if you just want a more flexible and efficient and less burdensome for the users approach) your solution would be to find an html/javascript script designed to run the slideshow that you can upload with your images.
In this case, the html/javascript will be serving the same function as irfanview does on your local pc.
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LaunchBar Commander / Re: Visual Corruption
« Last post by mouser on April 24, 2019, 04:57 PM »
I wonder if it could be an issue with the driver for your graphics card, which might need an update..  Normally the chance of this is pretty slim, but it can happen.. It's worth checking if there is an updated driver for your graphics card, or if you have any other advanced software that could be messing with the screen (e.g. remote desktop software, etc.).
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LaunchBar Commander / Re: Visual Corruption
« Last post by mouser on April 24, 2019, 12:42 PM »
The version update is not important -- it just means you have the latest and I haven't bothered updating the web page version listed yet.

The corruption issue is strange.  Does it doesn't matter which skin you are using?
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Developer's Corner / Red Dead Redemption 2 - Long Article on What Went Wrong
« Last post by mouser on April 24, 2019, 09:56 AM »
Really long interesting article on Read Dead Redemption 2, a much awaited video game (I thought the original was one of the top 10 video games I had ever played).

The most brain-shattering example happens when you play dominoes. You can see neither the board nor your hand from the main default screen while playing dominoes. And I have a big TV, so please, it’s not the TV. But the game is designed so you can zoom in on the board, then zoom out, and then zoom back in on your hand. It’s designed to mimic what it would actually feel like to be realistically playing dominoes.

Not only is this a really obstinate decision, but the board view is actually worthless because the view of your hand is even better and closer than the view that shows you the board. That means you have to hold the left trigger basically the entire time you play to properly see the board. This is a ridiculous choice to me, on every level, because it so readily creates an exhausting experience.


from osnews.com
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Screenshot Captor / Re: Settings on Unavailable Network Drive
« Last post by mouser on April 23, 2019, 03:51 PM »
 :up:
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Screenshot Captor / Re: Settings on Unavailable Network Drive
« Last post by mouser on April 23, 2019, 01:23 PM »
I don't mind using a different (local) directory for storing my settings, but how can I change the default location for the ScreenshotCaptor.ini file?

Edit the ConfigDir.ini file in the installation location of Screenshot Captor -- there you can specify the location where you want your Screenshot Captor settings file (ScreenshotCaptor.ini) and related files to be stored.

Let me know if that helps!
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Developer's Corner / Re: Node.js Learning Resources?
« Last post by mouser on April 22, 2019, 01:46 PM »
I'm going to start work on a node.js game idea soon :)
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Developer's Corner / Re: HTML Webpage to show slides; e.g. <video ...> <source ...> ... </videeo>
« Last post by mouser on April 20, 2019, 07:22 PM »
scr is just an exe file with a different extension.
and exe files are executable, there is no universal way to convert them.
however, it is very unlikely that the exe itself has video or image files embedded in it. there is probably a directory of images or video somewhere else on your disk the the program installs and loads.
(this is assuming of course that the screensaver/exe is showing video or images and not dynamic graphics).
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Living Room / Re: What books are you reading?
« Last post by mouser on April 19, 2019, 10:23 PM »
Principles of Economics by Mankiw
https://www.amazon.c...Mankiw/dp/128516587X
Screenshot - 4_19_2019 , 10_22_18 PM.png

Each page makes sense, but when I close the book and look around I still find it hard to understand how anyone is making any money.
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DC Member Programs and Projects / Re: Unping all the links!
« Last post by mouser on April 19, 2019, 10:03 AM »
oh nice!
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Screenshot Captor / Re: Grab windows object misfit
« Last post by mouser on April 19, 2019, 01:27 AM »
 :up:
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Screenshot Captor / Re: Grab windows object misfit
« Last post by mouser on April 18, 2019, 03:12 PM »
Can you try this beta:
https://www.donation...nshotCaptorSetup.exe
or portable.
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Screenshot Captor / Re: Grab windows object misfit
« Last post by mouser on April 18, 2019, 12:32 PM »
Yes, I was hoping that would be the case.  Should make it fairly easy for me to do a fix for the red box object capture of window forms.
Thanks for your help tracking down the problem -- I should have an update in the next few days.  :up:
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Screenshot Captor / Re: Grab windows object misfit
« Last post by mouser on April 17, 2019, 03:38 PM »
Ok that's helpful -- I'll see if I can't fix this. I seem to remember windows api providing information about window border size based on the theme -- I think that might be the solution.

I thought of another question.  If you select that window and use the ACTIVE WINDOW CAPTURE mode instead of the red box object mode, what does the capture look like in that case?
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Screenshot Captor / Re: Grab windows object misfit
« Last post by mouser on April 17, 2019, 12:30 PM »
Ok, sounds like I might need to look into whether on Windows 10 I need to adjust for the border size of windows..
If you capture a smaller object than a window, like a button or a text box, the size seems correct?
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Living Room / Nice long hacker article on jailbreaking a car head unit
« Last post by mouser on April 17, 2019, 07:02 AM »
Some of us enjoy reading a good man versus machine detective story.
This is a long description of the process of getting access to the software running the head unit (audio, navigation, etc.) in his car.

Back in June, I purchased a new car: the 2018 Subaru Crosstrek. This vehicle has an interesting head unit that's locked down and running a proprietary, non-Android operating system. Let's root it. If this was Android, we could most likely find plenty of pre-existing PoCs and gain root rather trivially as most vehicle manufacturers never seem to update Android. Because this isn't an old Android version, we'll have to put a little more work in than usual.


from https://hackaday.com...eaking-a-subaru-qnx/
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Screenshot Captor / Re: Grab windows object misfit
« Last post by mouser on April 17, 2019, 05:50 AM »
Can you make sure you are using the latest version of SC and then give me some more details about how the resulting capture is too big?
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General Software Discussion / Re: I know this has been done but not sure where to find it quickly.
« Last post by mouser on April 16, 2019, 01:33 PM »
free tool: WinMerge, compare the folders show only differences.
http://winmerge.org

(For those who do regular comparisons of files and folders, I'm a big fan of the commercial app Beyond Compare)
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