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Screenshot Captor / Re: What buttons should be in Screenshot Captor post-capture dialog?

« Last post by mouser on February 24, 2013, 06:57 PM »

I uploaded a new beta that has preliminary support for this -- it's not perfect but it's good enough for us to see if we like it.
Currently there are no options for what to do with a custom caption -- it will ALWAYS be added to the comment field AND added as an explicit caption object to the image (and included in any printed caption that would have printed by default).

Let me know what you think.

I plan to have an option to let you customize whether to just add it to image comment field and not add an explicit caption object.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: What buttons should be in Screenshot Captor post-capture dialog?

« Last post by mouser on February 24, 2013, 06:05 PM »

Neat idea.

Having a way to quick-add a caption from this form is intriguing.. One could imagine adding a caption, or adding "comments" (the notes at bottom of main screen embedded into images), or a combo.. only question is whether there is a clean simple way to do it..

I could add a one line edit box with an option somewhere else about what to do with this text if the user provides it; options being "add it to image comments" or "add a caption with this text".

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Screenshot Captor / Re: What buttons should be in Screenshot Captor post-capture dialog?

« Last post by mouser on February 24, 2013, 05:07 PM »

The hardest part about this is that different people have different needs -- no way to please everyone.

But i'm trying to think who would be using the post-capture dialog most often, and i think hardcore SC users are not likely to be using it.. Therefore I'm trying to focus on providing the most common easy to understand features for casual users, and have it serve as a good gentle first introduction to the program.

I think having the Clipboard items as a menu made sense because there are now 3 options there instead of two, and made no sense to have 3 buttons.

The help menu is more like a "More.." menu, and i may rename it to that and put other things in it.  Right now there is Help file, Link to forum, link to open Options dialog.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: What buttons should be in Screenshot Captor post-capture dialog?

« Last post by mouser on February 24, 2013, 05:02 PM »

Here is my latest attempt:


You can download the new beta here.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Screenshot Captor 3.17 Beta Test - Feb 23, 2013 - Feedback Wanted

« Last post by mouser on February 24, 2013, 01:38 PM »

but if you take the Win7 Taskbar into the screenshot there's still this selection.

but it's selecting the taskbar area right? in other words its highlighting the taskbar?

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Screenshot Captor 3.17 Beta Test - Feb 23, 2013 - Feedback Wanted

« Last post by mouser on February 24, 2013, 01:08 PM »

Ok I think i see the problem you were experiencing; i've uploaded a new beta version (same url), can you give it a try and see if it's fixed?

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Screenshot Captor 3.17 Beta Test - Feb 23, 2013 - Feedback Wanted

« Last post by mouser on February 24, 2013, 11:54 AM »

Ok this sounds like a bug i really need to fix.. i will look into it but please don't let me forget to fix it.

I thought since it's the "area" mode screenshot captor shouldn't consider windows and the active window at all and just grab what's under the cursor?

this has been changed so that SC will still try to do this -- but in your case it sounds like its not detecting a valid region.

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General Software Discussion / Re: forum password suggestion

« Last post by mouser on February 24, 2013, 11:21 AM »

You are right about the 8 character password reminder -- it's annoying how it is now.

Hide email address -- i think i need to change the text for that -- we actually ignore that field and ALWAYS HIDE email addresses no matter what -- you cannot expose your email address even if you try.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Screenshot Captor 3.17 Beta Test - Feb 23, 2013 - Feedback Wanted

« Last post by mouser on February 24, 2013, 10:54 AM »

It should be trying to highlight the active window or window under the cursor.. does that make sense in terms of what it is selecting?

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Screenshot Captor / Re: having trouble with undo

« Last post by mouser on February 24, 2013, 08:36 AM »

Hi aparante.

Download the new beta from here, it has better undo support for objects and more bugfixes.

You can discard all changes from "File -> Discard changes since last file save" menu.

I'm not sure I understand what happened with crop.. I wonder if you aren't using Double-Clicks of the mouse when you should be using single clicks? It kind of sounds that way from your descriptions.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: What buttons should be in Screenshot Captor post-capture dialog?

« Last post by mouser on February 23, 2013, 10:50 PM »

I suppose if this really is going to be a dialog used by new users, a "Help Me!" button that took them to the forum here might not be a terrible idea..

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Screenshot Captor / What buttons should be in Screenshot Captor post-capture dialog?

« Last post by mouser on February 23, 2013, 10:34 PM »

Im trying to decide which few buttons should be in the post-capture popup dialog.
Personally I don't use it, but I understand it can be especially important to new users who might be scared by the main interface.

Here's the current dialog:


What I plan to do is remove the Thumbnail button as it's not so important; and i think i'll compress the clipboard options into one button with a drop down selection; that will allow several different clipboard copy options (copy image, copy file path, copy file object) into one button.

I could leave it at that and just remove a row of buttons -- that would have the advantage of being even less intimidating.

But I could also add one or two more rows of 2 buttons each (any more than that and I think users will feel overwhelmed).

Any suggestions?

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Screenshot Captor 3.17 Beta Test - Feb 23, 2013 - Feedback Wanted

« Last post by mouser on February 23, 2013, 09:55 PM »

Latest update will let you save and restore settings files -- should make it a bit easier to switch between modes of operation.

TIP: Advanced users can manually edit saved settings files to have them only include a few options that they care about -- when you load those files any options not found in the file will be left alone.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Screenshot Captor 3.17 Beta Test - Feb 23, 2013 - Feedback Wanted

« Last post by mouser on February 23, 2013, 09:00 PM »

Yet a new version up with more bug fixes and minor features.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Screenshot Captor 3.17 Beta Test - Feb 22, 2013 - Feedback Wanted

« Last post by mouser on February 23, 2013, 08:18 PM »

you are right, it shouldn't be there -- just a copy and paste by me.  i will remove.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Screenshot Captor 3.17 Beta Test - Feb 22, 2013 - Feedback Wanted

« Last post by mouser on February 23, 2013, 07:16 PM »

cschw, the %num% field is only for filenames -- can't be used in comments.

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Community Giveaways / Re: 1 Copy of Left 4 Dead 2 giveaway :P *Open for another 21 hours *

« Last post by mouser on February 23, 2013, 04:45 PM »

It's the weekend, have some patience.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Screenshot Captor 3.17 Beta Test - Feb 22, 2013 - Feedback Wanted

« Last post by mouser on February 23, 2013, 02:38 PM »

Just a note about the new border fixes:  The graphics library can be aggressive about caching images, so you need to turn the border option on and off in order to see change of results.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Screenshot Captor 3.17 Beta Test - Feb 22, 2013 - Feedback Wanted

« Last post by mouser on February 23, 2013, 11:52 AM »

new version up, hopefully fixes the border color issue.
also i improved a weird maximization bug that was causing sc to forget the un-maximized size of its window.

let me know what other bugs you can find.

ps. check out the new arrow-text edit button -- should make it easier to put more text on your arrows.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Screenshot Captor 3.17 Beta Test - Feb 22, 2013 - Feedback Wanted

« Last post by mouser on February 23, 2013, 09:21 AM »

Thanks so much xcopy, that's a good bug that you caught.
Ath -- should I make the eraser use same size as paintbrush?

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JGPaiva's GridMove and Ahk Tools / Re: GridMove at github

« Last post by mouser on February 22, 2013, 03:56 PM »

Nice 

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Screenshot Captor 3.17 Beta Test - Feb 22, 2013 - Feedback Wanted

« Last post by mouser on February 22, 2013, 12:32 PM »

There are quite a few new little tweaking options in this beta, related to speed of file saving (and to a lesser extent) drawing and zooming, when dealing with images that have transparency information and many objects on screen at the same time.

To speed things up if you work with lots of objects you might want to experiment with:
1. Enabling the GDI+ library option on the Drawing Objects tab.
2. Enable flattening or assume opaque object backgrounds on Image File Format tab.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Screenshot Captor 3.16 Beta Test - Feb 20, 2013 - Feedback Wanted

« Last post by mouser on February 22, 2013, 12:03 PM »

Thanks everyone for the beta testing, it is really really appreciated.

I have uploaded a new version and tried to fix some of the bugs found above -- and made lots more tweaks.. again I hope i didn't break anything but wouldn't be surprised if i did, since there are so many moving parts when it comes to objects and transparency now..

So please do try the newly uploaded beta again.

And now to address some questions above.

Splice out should now mostly work on freehand paint player too.  what a pain(t).
Freehand paint flood feature -- the enclosing area must be a freehand paint drawn region.  You cannot flood fill an area defined by the normal background of the image.  I may try to add that as an option later.  It sounds like you were doing it right though, so please try again and let me know if its still not working.

Regarding multiple undos needed.. yes i'm afraid i don't have a good solution to that at this point.  Undo is still slightly wonky.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Just a feature idea

« Last post by mouser on February 22, 2013, 09:45 AM »

Hello mr toad and welcome to the site -- I'm glad you like it.

I think your idea is an excellent one -- on the global level though -- setting it per folder would be a bit overkill I think.

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Living Room / Show us a picture of your.. CAR!!!

« Last post by mouser on February 21, 2013, 06:18 PM »

I'm a long time city dweller, and have never owned a car..

In the last few years I have started driving again, and am lucky enough to be near a ZipCar location (zipcar is a great by-the-hour car sharing/rental thing).

I'm actually pretty thrilled with ZipCar but it's not the most convenient thing, and after spending over $700 in car rental last year, I'm starting to dream of buying a used car.

If I'm honest with myself I have to admit that a big chunk of wanting to buy a car is to have a new gadget to love, but the freedom would also be nice.

Now truth be told, I can't really afford a car so i'm just kind of day dreaming about one and browsing craigslist.

But it has made me start to get really curious about cars, and which cars people like, and if people are happy owning cars, etc.

And then it occurred to me that it would be fun to have a Car thread.  So please, post an actual (not stock) photo of your car, and tell me why you like it or don't like it...


ps.  If you have a spare car you want to donate and live near Illinois, drive it on down to my house!