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Author Topic: commandline screenshot options  (Read 9793 times)

mouser

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commandline screenshot options
« on: January 21, 2006, 11:09 PM »
thanks to a company who put up some money for this, i'm going to be releasing a little minicap utility for commandline invocation of non-interactive screenshots.

i'm looking for any suggestions of features to add.

[EDITED - i removed the details here since they are now documented in the official announcement of MiniCap, see below]

MiniCap has now been released for beta testing:

https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=2179.0
« Last Edit: January 24, 2006, 06:47 PM by mouser »

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Re: commandline screenshot options
« Reply #1 on: January 22, 2006, 12:47 PM »
Hm, maybe
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Re: commandline screenshot options
« Reply #2 on: January 22, 2006, 01:40 PM »
I'd like to see a simple file open command.  Sometimes I want to add annotations to images other than screenshots.  Of course, it is possible to add any image to the default screenshot folder, but a file open would be easier. 

Need to be able to adjust line width on text boxes like you can on arrows. 

Other than that, you might want to compare your program to SnagIt to see features you migh add. 

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Re: commandline screenshot options
« Reply #3 on: January 22, 2006, 01:49 PM »
GeorgeH wrote:
> I'd like to see a simple file open command.

We talk here about an command line tool. :-)
There would be no graphical user interface like an file open dialog.

If you look for an app like SnagIt
you can try the full blow Screenshot Captor at
https://www.donation...hotcaptor/index.html

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Re: commandline screenshot options
« Reply #4 on: January 22, 2006, 04:43 PM »
stefan is right (by the way screenshot captor does have a quickie "add image to current screenshot", see last item on file menu).

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Re: commandline screenshot options
« Reply #5 on: January 23, 2006, 10:34 PM »
wow this is great!
cant wait for this to release!

I can use nnCron (my favorite task scheduler) to invoke this once every 10 mins or something in order to achieve my "work log with screenshots" idea that I had posted over here

thanks mouser!!   :Thmbsup:

1 question:  will this program be fast?  can it run in low priority (maybe prio could be a commandline switch) so as not to interfere with the foreground app?

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Re: commandline screenshot options
« Reply #6 on: January 23, 2006, 10:44 PM »
i think it would almost certainly be more efficient and speedy if the program itself was made to stay in memory and take a snapshot every 10 minutes, rather than relaunching the exe every 10 minutes.  if you were doing it once an hour or once a day, that might be different, but the program is not so small that you would really want to relaunch the exe every 10 minutes.

but youll surely be able to find a tiny ms visual c++ app that does nothing but capture screenshot of desktop and save it, which would be suitable for your task and nncron.   even though minicap is smaller than screenshot captor, it's still not super small.

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Re: commandline screenshot options
« Reply #7 on: January 23, 2006, 10:50 PM »
well so far the only thing I've found is this:

http://www.svet-soft.com/cap.shtml

it costs $39 but may be worth it.. I am going to try the demo version.

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Re: commandline screenshot options
« Reply #8 on: January 23, 2006, 11:28 PM »
wow.. that's a lot of money for something like that.
i would wait for minicap this week, and keep looking.

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Re: commandline screenshot options
« Reply #9 on: January 24, 2006, 06:47 PM »
minicap is now available for betatesting (see post at top of section).

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Re: commandline screenshot options
« Reply #10 on: January 24, 2006, 06:53 PM »
Thanks mouser!! downloading now.......  :Thmbsup: