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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: CHS at first launch always starts up selecting the last but one oldest

« Last post by mouser on September 10, 2013, 05:10 PM »

Hmm interesting point -- I guess CHS is just starting up and going to the LAST clip in the table which if you sort by default field, will be the last entry in the table.

But you must have it sorted with newest at top, causing the phenomena you describe.. You could simply click on the Modified column to sort with last entries at the bottom, but maybe you prefer newest at top?

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Measure sizes

« Last post by mouser on September 10, 2013, 04:58 PM »

Let's have further SC discussion of rulers on this thread.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Display Ruler in Zoom

« Last post by mouser on September 10, 2013, 04:58 PM »

Let's have further SC discussion of rulers on this thread.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: SSC 4.30_Few UI questions

« Last post by mouser on September 10, 2013, 04:57 PM »

Let's have further SC discussion of rulers on this thread.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: The Great Screenshot Captor Ruler Debate Thread

« Last post by mouser on September 10, 2013, 04:55 PM »

We have been debating the value of adding some sort of ruler functionality to Screenshot Captor in a few threads.

There are people who believe rulers would be very useful, and there are others, like me, who don't yet understand the usefulness of them.

I'm hoping we can consolidate the discussion into this thread, and focus on what actual tasks are being done that might benefit from some kind of ruler functionality, and then decide what kind of optional tool i can add to SC that would best help people perform these tasks.

This might mean adding rulers (fixed or floating?) or adding some kind of special panel with extra information, or a customizable grid, etc.

Or it may simply mean finding an external ruler/measuring tool and creating a helpful .sctool entry for it to make it super easy for people to use from within Screenshot Captor.


I think the first step is for people who want "rulers" to help me understand what kind of rulers they think would be useful and what kinds of tasks they would use them for inside SC; and let's try to think outside the box and figure out if a ruler is what is really needed or if something else might help even more with these tasks..

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Feature Requests For Region Captures - Use Arrow Keys and Solid Region Lines

« Last post by mouser on September 10, 2013, 04:51 PM »

Keyboard shortcut nudging sounds reasonable, though its a little bit odd to be doing it while the cursor is under mouse control..

You can of course nudge using keyboard from within SC editor, but thats because you are nudging selection size when its NOT under mouse control.

I continue to believe that if you need to do precise selection and operation, your best best is to just do a rough region capture, and then do your precise selection work INSIDE of SC, where you have full access to nudging, zoom, undo, etc.

So we're talking about nudging the location of the cursor right? Not nudging the starting location selected when left mouse was held down?

Related tip: Did you know that in region selection capture if you change your mind about starting location of capture after youve held down the left mouse, you can hit space bar to reset the starting point to current cursor location.

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I'm open to trying to make the crosshairs more visible, though going to a solid line does raise visibility problems of its own in terms of melting into the background as you say, so i'm not sure about that, but maybe i can try an option to have a "solid" line that uses inverse color to the background.  Won't quite be solid but might be better that dashed for some people?

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Configurable taskbar buttons ?

« Last post by mouser on September 10, 2013, 04:40 PM »

So you'd like to choose options for when you click on the tray icon with a left-click, right-click, double-click?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Lost my key

« Last post by mouser on September 10, 2013, 04:17 PM »

Hi Rich!

I removed your email address since you never want to post an email address publicly unless you are prepared to deal with spam robots seeing it and sending you spam.

Anyone who loses a license key can always email me personally and i will resend it ([email protected]).

But in your case it's even easier, since the forum recognizes you as a wonderful supporting member of the site you can always get your license key instantly just by visiting this page: https://www.donation...r.com/Keys/index.php

Let me know if you need further assistance!

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Screenshot Captor / Re: The Great Screenshot Captor Ruler Debate Thread

« Last post by mouser on September 10, 2013, 03:24 PM »

Well that's sort of what i was proposing for an optional special top panel that would only be shown when you want it -- it would have big text showing exact cursor position, selection size, and some of these control for custom grid.  It would be a sort of "Precise Control" panel, designed to be toggled on when you need to do precise work.  It might also remind you of the keyboard shortcuts for nudging the selection size.

I see it showing:

1. Large font text showing current cursor position in pixels and inches (or cm)
2. Large font text showing selection size in pixels and inches (or cm)
3. Checkbox to enable full-image-size crosshairs.
4. Combobox to set grid mode (None, by size, by divisions).
5. Control to adjust grid horizontal gridsize.
6. Control to adjust grid vertical gridsize.
7. Controls to adjust origin of grid.

Other things it could show:
8. Exact distance of cursor from Right hand and Bottom of image? (would make it easier to get exact middle, etc.)

Now this is a fair amount of work so there's no point in me implementing this unless a bunch of people think it would be useful -- it's certainly not something i would use -- at least not when working with screenshots.  But I'm not against implementing it as an optional thing if people think it would be useful and they don't have any other pet features they want implemented first..

It would also mean you would trade off some image screen space to get this top panel -- you'd lose maybe 75-100 pixels of vertical height that used to be used to show the image.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: greyscale + negative for Auto Print

« Last post by mouser on September 10, 2013, 02:43 PM »

Glad the inverted colors are working.

I think the old print settings used to be called "printop_" and you may still see those in the ini file; the new print settings are in the ini file under "EditStreamedPrintSettings" and should be non-blank.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: The Great Screenshot Captor Ruler Debate Thread

« Last post by mouser on September 10, 2013, 02:36 PM »

Would it be useful to have a mode where the cursor crosshairs draw full height and width lines? Much like in the region-capture mode?

And I'm still interested in hearing if people think being able to set up a custom grid with a custom size and origin would be useful.. Though please remember that SC is not trying to be a top-echelon illustration tool.

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Jibz's Tools / Web Pages that mention Dina

« Last post by mouser on September 10, 2013, 02:20 PM »

Long overdue to have a thread on this.

Here's a brand new website mentioning Dina and other Programming Fonts:

http://www.slant.co/...st-programming-fonts

Let them know why you love Dina 


What other pages mention Dina?

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Screenshot Captor / Re: The Great Screenshot Captor Ruler Debate Thread

« Last post by mouser on September 10, 2013, 10:02 AM »

I hate to beat a dead horse but i really do want to understand.  But when you say something like this:

As I was working on the page images though, I did wish for rulers in both axes...I was trying to ensure that each page ended up as the same height and width. This was quite difficult to do without rulers, and I ended up having to do everything by eye (using my visual judgement).

you have to understand that i don't get it.  i just don't understand how you are using the rulers, how they help, what you actually use them to do/see, whatever.  

right now when you make a selection it tells you the exact size of the selection.  I need someone to explain to me some concrete use cases for rulers so i can understand what purpose they solve.

everything i read here makes me think rulers are some magical sticks that you wave around an image and they magically make doing hard things super easy.

i'm not asking for someone to "prove" to me that they are useful, just explain to me how specifically they would be used in SC to help do some task so I can see if there isn't a better solution, or at the very least make sure that the rulers i implement serve this purpose.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: The Great Screenshot Captor Ruler Debate Thread

« Last post by mouser on September 10, 2013, 09:57 AM »

Thanks for the post Ian, seems a couple of different things here though.

It sounds like the rulers -- at least as i implemented them in the recent test (just along the top and side and not floating) would not have helped you.  Do you know about how the bottom statusbar of SC shows the current selection size? Would that have been what you wanted, to get an exact selection size?  You could have also saved the selection size so you could repeat it.  I'm sorry to be dense but i don't quite follow everything you are saying.

I do understand the basic task you are describing -- splicing out the overlaps of a scrolling capture on a page where it can't be done automatically.  but beyond that i didn't completely follow.

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General Software Discussion / Re: desktop coral resizing

« Last post by mouser on September 10, 2013, 09:51 AM »

In the system tray there is an icon for Desktop Coral (black and white dotted box if i remember correctly); you can access settings from there.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Problem with Preferences shortcut

« Last post by mouser on September 10, 2013, 09:15 AM »

Sounds like maybe I need to remove that shortcut (or make it customizable).

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JGPaiva's GridMove and Ahk Tools / Re: need help setting up grid with a large display

« Last post by mouser on September 09, 2013, 01:20 PM »

no worries, and welcome to the site.. just try to hang on until a gridmove expert sees this thread

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JGPaiva's GridMove and Ahk Tools / Re: need help setting up grid with a large display

« Last post by mouser on September 09, 2013, 11:50 AM »

I've moved this to the GridMove section.

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Post New Requests Here / MOVED: need help setting up grid with a large display

« Last post by mouser on September 09, 2013, 11:50 AM »

This topic has been moved to JGPaiva's Ahk Tools.

https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=36059.0

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Should SSC ask to save changes when there are none?

« Last post by mouser on September 09, 2013, 11:37 AM »

SC will not ask you if you want to save changes unless it thinks for some reason that some changes have been made.

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ProcessTamer / Re: Process Tamer - LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - v2.11.01 - Apr 23, 2009

« Last post by mouser on September 08, 2013, 11:37 PM »

An update is long over due everyone.. I haven't given up on it.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: The Great Screenshot Captor Ruler Debate Thread

« Last post by mouser on September 08, 2013, 09:51 PM »

I think we should approach this from the opposite angle.

Let's start out by saying that external ruler tools do this job fine, and so SC doesn't need one.
And then we can ask -- what *WOULD* be more useful?

That tasks do you use a ruler for -- can we add a tool to SC that would help you do that even more than a ruler would?  That's why i'm thinking along the lines of some custom mode, with a top info panel, and maybe a custom grid and crosshairs?  By custom grid i mean a grid where you could easily tweak the grid size and origin.
 

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Screenshot Captor / Re: The Great Screenshot Captor Ruler Debate Thread

« Last post by mouser on September 08, 2013, 07:25 PM »

Ok but Cathie is a user of the software -- she's taken the time to use it and test new versions.  Let's please let's not be insulting users and calling them names.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: The Great Screenshot Captor Ruler Debate Thread

« Last post by mouser on September 08, 2013, 07:07 PM »

Let me look into an optional top panel with clearer information about cusor position, selection size, and maybe some grid options.  Surely that's got to be more helpful than the rulers.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: The Great Screenshot Captor Ruler Debate Thread

« Last post by mouser on September 08, 2013, 07:04 PM »

just for the record, i think cathie's criticisms can be a bit harsh sometimes, but many of her points have some validity, and some have already led to some improvements.  So let's make sure we don't get *too* defensive (which is not to say i don't very much appreciate having SC be defended and praised, because i sure do!).