Author Topic: LATEST MiniCap VERSION INFO THREAD - v1.42.01 - Jun 27, 2022 (Read 226499 times)

mouser · « **Reply #50 on:** May 03, 2010, 08:04 PM »

I have posted a beta update with new vista/win7 semi-transparent aero glass capture:
https://www.donation...eta/MiniCapSetup.exe

v1.20.01 - 5/3/10

[Feature] Updated with latest Screenshot Captor capture code.
MajorFeature] Completely re-rewritten new method for capturing Aero Glass themed Semi-transparent windows on Vista and Windows 7. Based on an approach described by Ian Griffiths (http://www.interact-...7/01/30/recoveralpha), with several tweaks for automatic border detection and improved color handling. A new options tab ("Windows Capturing") was added to control the various options for it. Note that by default SC will preserve the entire transparency recovered from the window; this will allow you to composite the screenshot in graphics editing software with it's original semi-transparent regions and effects. By default SC will attempt to remove the shadow effect imparted by Aero, but you can change this via commandline options.
[BugFix] Was refusing to capture certain windows like Google Chrome; errors in capturing are now reported better.

v1.18.01 - 12/25/2009

Added commandline options for grayscale and black+white conversion.

moffitt · « **Reply #51 on:** October 28, 2010, 05:10 PM »

Hello there, dont you think I should do a trial on the program to see if I would use it, then if so would be happy to donate. Running the donation blurb so early leaves an opinion that the writer(obviously very talented) is more interested in the income than the use of the program. I think the donation splash should come up at least a week after the download. thanks.

mouser · « **Reply #52 on:** October 28, 2010, 05:23 PM »

moffitt -- welcome to the site and thank you for taking the time to post.

First, i think you must be talking about Screenshot Captor, because i don't think MiniCap has any blurb or nag or anything. at least not to my memory.

If you are talking about Screenshot Captor (the big brother of MiniCap), then the situation is a bit harder to explain. My big apps, like Screenshot Captor, pop up a quick welcome message the first time you run them, and then will start to ask you to download a *FREE* license key after about 10 days; to get that you just come to our site and visit the license key page. Once you put that in you shouldn't be reminded again or see any sign whatsoever for 6 months, at which point you can drop by the page again for a new key.

I know it's confusing, but the attempt is not to nag people to force them to donate -- but to try to at least get people to realize that our site survives only through the donations of users, and to make sure they don't at least visit our site to learn that if they are going to use our software.

nkormanik · « **Reply #53 on:** August 25, 2011, 06:23 PM »

My mind is swimming with so many MiniCap options here.

Would someone please put together the code for the following?

-- Hit a hotkey, say PrntScrn

-- Take snap of entire single monitor

-- Save to folder: c:\snaps\

-- Save in png format

-- Use the following date/time format for file naming: yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss

-- Make a nice distinct audible sound so that I have confidence a screenshot was actually snapped (allow user to select some wav file, such as a camera click of choice -- wav file is located at c:\sounds\camera.wav)

-- Stay "resident" so that I can hit PrntScrn again after while

End result:
c:\snaps\2011-08-25 16:23:37.png
c:\snaps\2011-08-25 19:04:52.png
c:\snaps\2011-08-25 21:18:01.png
c:\snaps\2011-08-26 00:48:29.png
etc...

Thanks much!

Nicholas

P.S. -- would doing what is requested above be better with big brother ScreenShot Captor?

mouser · « **Reply #54 on:** August 25, 2011, 06:24 PM »

You want Screenshot Captor, it will do everything you are requesting easily.

MiniCap is when you don't want it to stay resident and don't want to trigger capture via hotkey.

mouser · « **Reply #55 on:** August 28, 2011, 02:56 PM »

Minor Update:

v1.24.01 - Aug 28, 2011

[MinorFeature] Updated with current Screenshot Captor semi-transparent window Aero capture abilities
[MinorFeature] Better reporting of failure-to-save-file errors.

v1.23.01 - Oct 21, 2010

[MinorFeature] The file extension (.exe) is removed from the captured application filename ($fullfilename$)
[MinorFeature] You can now use $uniquenum0$ instead of $uniquenum$ if you want to force a counter name always even if not needed to avoid conflict with existing file.

v1.21.01 - 6/7/10

[BugFix] The -exit commandline option was not being obeyed if user used -print but didn't save.

sulasno · « **Reply #56 on:** August 29, 2011, 08:42 AM »

small bug in the Help file

-capturescreeen

· Capture current screen

there's an extra "e" in capturescreeen

ashish128 · « **Reply #57 on:** September 22, 2011, 02:22 AM »

Thank you a lot dear mouser. The utility is great, For even people like me who seldom take a shot, and it made me feel so good while using it. Thanks again.

Just one point, (I am not sure if it is proper way to request or not or if this a bug or something).
Could you please set the focus on "Filename" window when -promptsave is used. I tried to take a screenshot and name it but it requires (manual) shifting of focus to the window before I could write into it (or even press "enter key" to confirm the suggested name).

one exception to this is when I take screen shot of a window which is "maximized" and is above all.

Thanks again for a great software.

Ashish Sharma

mouser · « **Reply #58 on:** November 13, 2011, 04:28 PM »

Minor update to add -dpi option.

Shpirny · « **Reply #59 on:** December 09, 2011, 02:28 AM »

Thanks for the great program. I take it and very happy.
Call it from your script directly to a printer (command:-capturescreeen -print -exit).
But I can not save print settings. By default, field = 1 and ednitsy measurement = inches. With each new call to put out these values. I've got to 0, and centimeters. Where are these options? In the registry and miniсap.ini I have not found.

Sorry for my English.

mouser · « **Reply #60 on:** December 11, 2011, 04:37 AM »

Hi Srpirny,

Sorry for the delay in replying -- i've spent the last couple of weeks working non-stop on a new program and I'm a bit behind in other things.
I will try to add ability to pass the print settings via commandline.

mouser · « **Reply #61 on:** November 29, 2013, 04:17 AM »

Minor release:

v1.28.01 - Nov 29, 2013

[MinorFeature] Added -capsound commandline option to play sound after capture.
[Major Feature] Updated with latest Screenshot Captor scrolling window capture code.
[Feature] Now offering both installer and portable zip downloads; executables and installer are now signed.

Nod5 · « **Reply #62 on:** December 05, 2013, 05:12 AM »

Hi mouser. In v1.28 the red caption bar flickers quickly on my Win7 X64 system even when the mouse pointer does not move.

mouser · « **Reply #63 on:** December 06, 2013, 05:00 PM »

I'll check into it on win7.

Nod5 · « **Reply #64 on:** December 09, 2013, 11:57 AM »

No need. Because I can't reproduce the problem myself now. The culprit earlier was likely something else I had running at the same time. Will post back if it happens again.

mouser · « **Reply #65 on:** December 09, 2013, 12:10 PM »

The culprit earlier was likely something else I had running at the same time. Will post back if it happens again.

makes sense -- probably something fighting with minicap for foreground focus.

AbteriX · « **Reply #66 on:** July 17, 2014, 12:32 AM »

Today I had an use for a command line screenshot tool, and MiniCap worked great! Thanks Jesse

Especial the possibility to specify a window by its name was pretty welcome, as so I could work in another window in the meantime.

I used this batch to capture a screenshot every ten seconds (while I was still working in another app, great!):

_everyXSeconds.cmd

Code: Text [Select]

@ECHO OFF
CD %~dp0
 
SET myfilename=shot_$uniquenum$.png
SET stopatname=shot_234.png
 
:loop
        start "" MiniCap.exe -save %myfilename% -captureappbyname myapptocapture.exe -exit -compress 1
        
        REM use ping on WinXP
        rem ping 127.0.0.1 -n 11 >nul
        REM use timeout.exe on Win7
        timeout /T 10 >NUL
        
 
REM break condition after 234 shots:
rem IF NOT EXIST %stopatname% goto :loop 
        
REM continuous loop, close the DOS-Box itself to stop the capturing:
goto :loop

UPDATE, change stop condition mode:

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@ECHO OFF
 
REM U S E R    S E T T I N G S:
SET myfilename=shot_$uniquenum$.png
SET AppnameToCapture=msword.exe
 
 
 
REM T H E    C O D E:
CD %~dp0
SET counter=0
:loop
        start "" MiniCap.exe -save %myfilename% -captureAppByName %AppnameToCapture%  -compress 1 -noFocus -exit
        
        REM stop for ten seconds, then loop again
        REM use ping on WinXP
        rem ping 127.0.0.1 -n 11 >nul
        REM use timeout.exe on Win7
        timeout /T 10 >NUL
 
 
        REM break condition, stop after twenty shots:
        SET /A counter+=1
        IF %counter%==20 EXIT
rem continuous loop
GOTO loop

mouser · « **Reply #67 on:** July 17, 2014, 12:49 AM »

Excellent

hail2u · « **Reply #68 on:** August 08, 2014, 11:43 AM »

I really enjoyed with MiniCap. But there seems little bug around `-captureredregselect` command-line option. When I capture with this option and set rectangle area 320 width and 200 height, I get width 319 and height 199 image (1px smaller than specified size). Please fix this!

mouser · « **Reply #69 on:** August 08, 2014, 12:07 PM »

Hi hail2u!

This was a bug in a recent Screenshot Captor, so I just need to rebuild MiniCap and it should be fixed. I've been delayed releasing some updates recently, but I will really try to get it done this weekend.

mouser · « **Reply #70 on:** August 11, 2014, 08:34 AM »

Can you guys try the new MiniCap (v1.30) beta:

v1.30.01 - Aug 10, 2014 - what's new

[BugFix] Region capture sizes were off by one.
[MinorFeature] Main window now shows on taskbar (when main window is shown).
[MinorFeature] Image dimensions are now shown on main window.
[MinorFeature] Selection is cleared after new captures.
[BugFix] Image starts out blank if MiniCap launched with no commandline parameters.
[Feature] Updated with new scrolling capture code from big brother tool Screenshot Captor.
[MinorFeature] Previous foreground window is restored after exit.

hail2u · « **Reply #71 on:** August 12, 2014, 06:15 PM »

Thanks! I have confirmed bug that mentioned above was fixed.

“Previous foreground window is restored after exit.” is very nice.

mouser · « **Reply #72 on:** August 12, 2014, 09:57 PM »

Excellent!

mouser · « **Reply #73 on:** August 18, 2014, 08:16 AM »

v1.31.01 - Aug 17, 2014

[BugFix] Region capture sizes were off by one.
[MinorFeature] Main window now shows on taskbar (when main window is shown).
[MinorFeature] Image dimensions are now shown on main window.
[MinorFeature] Selection is cleared after new captures.
[BugFix] Image starts out blank if MiniCap launched with no commandline parameters.
[Feature] Updated with new scrolling capture code from big brother tool Screenshot Captor.
[MinorFeature] Previous foreground window is restored after exit.
[Feature] New commandline option to embed (exif) comment in file (gif, png, jpg, pdf, tiff, but not .bmp format).
[Feature] New commandline option to not focus a target window when doing a window capture.

Nod5 · « **Reply #74 on:** March 14, 2015, 10:05 AM »

I have an issue with minicap on my laptop (high DPI screen but I've set it to 1920x1080).
When I start minicap with the -captureregselect parameter the screen is zoomed in a bit and the right/bottom side of the screen out of view. This means I can't screencap regions in the right/bottom part of the screen.

Once the minicap process ends the screen zooms back into the correct resolution again.

-captureredregselect works as expected and doesn't zoom in, but I prefer the more minimal -captureregselect