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Screenshot Captor / Re: After each capturing main window is appears despite "stay minimized" is chosen

« Last post by mouser on September 06, 2013, 09:07 AM »

SC window open in the background.
I take screenshot and SC window jumps to foreground (the screenshot is fine)

I should have said that i'm still working on perfecting this and haven't got it perfect.  what should happen now though is if there was another program that was focused and in front of SC, then SC should appear behind it after the capture in that case, though it will jump in front of others.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: problem resizing caption box / object

« Last post by mouser on September 06, 2013, 02:20 AM »

I can see the frustration of using the caption feature -- it's not really easy to resize the caption box once it is created, due to the nature of it -- it's basically creating a text box and resizing the canvas as a one time thing, not doing it dynamically as you adjust the caption.  I'll consider something more dynamic, though it wouldn't be trivial to implement so don't hold your breath.  It's possible that a specialty "modify caption size" menu item would be more feasible (though admittedly not ideal).

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Screenshot Captor / Re: problem resizing caption box / object

« Last post by mouser on September 06, 2013, 02:17 AM »

Thanks Tomos - I see now the expand canvas ONLY works if you select an object 1st, then click expand canvas.
But what you show is "resizing", not expand canvas.  Resizing most objects works OK for me.

this is me being inconsistent in naming things.  the tool that tomos showed, labeled resize canvas, is EXPANDING the canvas.

You'll also find a new "Quick Expand Canvas" on the main edit menu.

Cathie when you say:

I see now the expand canvas ONLY works if you select an object 1st, then click expand canvas.

that sounds like you are talking about the menu item under the Object menu labeled "Expand canvas to fit objects" which is a function used specifically when your objects are outside the bounds of the images.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: problem resizing caption box / object

« Last post by mouser on September 06, 2013, 02:14 AM »

NOTE that sometimes it has a red 'O' overlaid on the arrow, sometimes not (I'm not sure what the difference is).

it gets the 'O' as soon as you add any objects in the screenshot that can be edited.  that is, it alerts you when there are objects present on the file you are viewing.  it's a reminder to help remind you to press it to edit them.

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Living Room / Re: I'm ready to join the HTPC (home theater pc) revolution - what to get?

« Last post by mouser on September 06, 2013, 02:12 AM »

I checked out xbmc and jriver and both look really nice.

I prefer the way Jriver has a theatre more and a more traditional mode, and in general i think i like jriver better for standard stuff (movies, audio), BUT xbmc seems to be packed to the brim with addons and fun stuff that can be added.. so it's a very tough choice.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Modification request_change some toolbar icons that are nearly identical

« Last post by mouser on September 05, 2013, 11:39 PM »

Having some more differentiated icons is not a bad idea.. I might ask dc member Hamradio to look into it -- he has made a bunch of really great icons for SC.
If you find any good 16x16 free icons you think are better for something specific, let me know.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: greyscale + negative for Auto Print

« Last post by mouser on September 05, 2013, 10:43 PM »

Option now available in the newly uploaded beta.
Download here: https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=35886.0

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Screenshot Captor / Re: After each capturing main window is appears despite "stay minimized" is chosen

« Last post by mouser on September 05, 2013, 10:43 PM »

Please redownload the new beta, all these problems should be fixed now:
https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=35886.0

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Screenshot Captor Early Beta Release: v4.6.4 Beta - Sep 11, 2013

« Last post by mouser on September 05, 2013, 10:41 PM »

One thing that often confuses me:
If you choose the style of the start-/endpoint *before" you actually draw the line, at the first line the endpoint is unaffected from the setting.

thanks xbeta -- that bug is now on my todo list.
hopefully fixed in new upload.

Did you happen to see my post above about enabling use of hte arrow keys and changing the cross hair and box color during selection?

bubba, let's discuss in a separate thread.

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Multi Photo Quotes / Re: Add video panels to MultiPhotoQuotes?

« Last post by mouser on September 05, 2013, 04:34 PM »

Anyone?

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Screenshot Captor / Re: greyscale + negative for Auto Print

« Last post by mouser on September 04, 2013, 05:06 PM »

Forgot about that feature -- on the scanner toolbar it is.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: greyscale + negative for Auto Print

« Last post by mouser on September 04, 2013, 04:13 PM »

hmm, that's an interesting idea.

i certainly could add an option to invert colors when printing.

and i could add an option to auto-grayscale while printing -- but i wonder if there is any point in doing that since a laser printer driver must have it's own function for doing that?

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Screenshot Captor / Re: After each capturing main window is appears despite "stay minimized" is chosen

« Last post by mouser on September 04, 2013, 11:07 AM »

I will try to fix that too.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: After each capturing main window is appears despite "stay minimized" is chosen

« Last post by mouser on September 04, 2013, 10:20 AM »

Good discovery!
Right you are, i can confirm the bug.  That *is* annoying.

I shall fix -- should have a beta to test in next couple of days.

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T-Clock / Re: T-Clock 2010 (download)

« Last post by mouser on September 04, 2013, 10:00 AM »

Nice Thank you 

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Screenshot Captor / Re: After each capturing main window is appears despite "stay minimized" is chosen

« Last post by mouser on September 04, 2013, 08:41 AM »

That should not be.

Can you try the latest version?

And remember to minimize the program into the tray, and then do a capture.  If it's truly minimized in the tray before the capture, it should not be shown at all afterwards with that option.

Anyone else can verify?

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Living Room / Re: Head in the Clouds web comic by DC member -- a new favorite

« Last post by mouser on September 04, 2013, 08:09 AM »

I really miss the Head in the Clouds comic 

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General Software Discussion / Re: The very very best for contextual menus

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

FileMenuTools always looked very good to me (haven't tried it recently):
http://www.lopesoft.com/en/filemenutools

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Screenshot Captor / Re: After each capturing main window is appears despite "stay minimized" is chosen

« Last post by mouser on September 04, 2013, 08:05 AM »

Hi Barvetal.
To make sure we are on same page:

It only happens if the Screenshot Captor is actually on the screen (not in the tray), right?
That is, SC may not be in the foreground, but it's not minimized right?

The problem is caused because of this:

The "after capture minimized" option really should be called "after capture, don't restore from tray", because if the program was visible BEFORE the capture, it will be minimized in order to capture, and then SC will try to restore back to where it was BEFORE the capture.

However, the bug is that when it does that, it can appear in front of another window, even though it does not grab focus.

I will fix. Stay tuned for an update this week.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Export to single .txt files (adding date-time)

« Last post by mouser on September 04, 2013, 02:25 AM »

ok then I'll look into fixing this right away.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Export to single .txt files (adding date-time)

« Last post by mouser on September 04, 2013, 02:01 AM »

Ok looks like i need to go and check this out.
ClipText should be the full text of the clip.

One possibility is that the CSV output is not formatting items with newlines or quotes well, resulting in excel import being incomplete.

Could you check that actual txt file and see if ClipText is really blank?

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Export to single .txt files (adding date-time)

« Last post by mouser on September 03, 2013, 07:15 PM »

I'm not opposed to adding something like this.

However, I'd first like to make sure this is wrong:

Then again, in case of larger text clips only a small part is being transferred, viz ExcerptText only (the actual body is mostly skipped)

Because the first step should be to ensure that the current CSV style export is exporting ALL important data.  That way, it can always be parsed by a simple utility and searched and indexed, etc.

If what you say is true and it's not exporting all of the clip text, then that has to be my first priority to fix.

Can you check?

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: [Feature Request] Encryption? Password Protection?

« Last post by mouser on September 03, 2013, 07:12 PM »

It's a very good question, but i'm afraid rj has the most practical answer.

Which is that trying to add protection and encryption into CHS would not be easy, and would never be all that secure.

I may look into ways i can make the database on disk somewhat encrypted from naive eyes, the bottom line is that CHS is never going to be truly high security.

So, as rjbull describes, the best solution is to use a proper password utility, and instruct CHS to NEVER COPY text placed on the clipboard from such an app.

See also this thread:
https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=16431.0

It describes how CHS will ignore text that is placed onto the clipboard and tagged with an "IgnoreClip" security tag.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: floating point error - win 8 german

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

Can you try the beta version posted here:
https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=35886.0

The problem you are reporting I think was fixed in that release and had to do with moving the configuration file between computers of different locales.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Turn off INI backups

« Last post by mouser on September 03, 2013, 01:19 AM »

You said that it's using the backup instead of the latest -- is it possible instead that its merely resetting to all default options?
Second question: is it possible that this behavior only happens after restarting the computer?