Author Topic: NANY - Image Capture and Upload Program (Read 76735 times)

TaoPhoenix · « **Reply #50 on:** January 04, 2014, 04:30 PM »

The history only saves upload URLs.... I can may it store saves/auto-saves also.... I am going to make it so you can choose the auto-save location, just have not got to that yet.

I'll take a look to see if I can pin down the error.

Thanks!
-c.gingerich (January 04, 2014, 04:28 PM)

Yep! The big missing item I can't get to work is to save the actual screenshot right into the clipboard (as well as on disk in the autosave!). Then I'd go back to the history and "right click to copy the URL" afterwards.

c.gingerich · « **Reply #51 on:** January 04, 2014, 04:35 PM »

So you would like it to auto-save to the disk as well as copy to the clipboard?

TaoPhoenix · « **Reply #52 on:** January 04, 2014, 08:44 PM »

So you would like it to auto-save to the disk as well as copy to the clipboard?
-c.gingerich (January 04, 2014, 04:35 PM)

Yep! The big use case is to be able to drill (and save) a bunch of fast screen shots in a selectable folder, and each time it copies to the clipboard, where the best ones go into a Sticky. If I needed to upload them and get the URL that's much more rare for me. If I needed that step I'd go select that in the options and stuff.

c.gingerich · « **Reply #53 on:** January 21, 2014, 08:29 AM »

This is crazy but IMM.IO has been down for weeks. I do hope they get back up and running again but if they do not I am afraid that ICUP will be down also.... well I guess I can just take out the upload part, but that was why I mainly wrote the app. Everything breaking down around me, story of my life....

c.gingerich · « **Reply #54 on:** January 31, 2014, 08:06 PM »

IMM.IO is down for good. I'm going to have to revisit my app and remove that bit...very sad.... It may take me a while as I am moving and still have a lot of packing planning. :-)

Cerberus™ · « **Reply #55 on:** March 11, 2014, 07:55 AM »

Oh! This program looks so good, exactly what I needed as a replacement of Zizorz. But the upload site has been discontinued. Do you think it would be possible to make the program upload to a different site? That would be so great! Or maybe even depend on Dropbox, if that makes it more stable?

c.gingerich · « **Reply #56 on:** March 11, 2014, 07:57 AM »

I do plan on updating this to either use a different site or just make it a plain screen cap program. Not sure yet.

Cerberus™ · « **Reply #57 on:** March 11, 2014, 09:30 AM »

Ok cool! If you manage to update it to use a different site, do let us know! I've been waiting for a proper replacement for Zizors for so long...

c.gingerich · « **Reply #58 on:** March 11, 2014, 11:14 AM »

I found a way that I can upload to Picasa/Google Photos. I know it is not a typical image sharing site, but I may be able to upload to google docs/drive also.

Cerberus™ · « **Reply #59 on:** March 11, 2014, 12:34 PM »

Oh! That's great! Thanks for looking into this. Question: when one has a link from Picasa or Drive, can one link directly to the image, so as to directly display the item in, say, a forum post that supports it?

c.gingerich · « **Reply #60 on:** March 11, 2014, 12:35 PM »

I think so. You have to share the image/file then you should be able to do that.

Cerberus™ · « **Reply #61 on:** March 11, 2014, 02:58 PM »

Oh, that's promising! If we can use a different Google account for that, it should be anonymous enough for those concerned about their privacy (so we wouldn't have to post all images linked to our main Google account that's open in the browser: if we did that, all of our forum posts would directly lead to our real e-mail/name).

IainB · « **Reply #62 on:** March 11, 2014, 03:46 PM »

I could be wrong, of course, but I had gathered that - post g+ - the Picasa storage was to be or had been merged/aggregated with Google drive. I have assiduously avoided g+ so am probably not in a good position to test this, either way.

Cerberus™ · « **Reply #63 on:** March 11, 2014, 04:25 PM »

Yes, but if you make a new account for this here program, the whole problem can be avoided. You can make it anonymous and block all anti-privacy options and such.

tomos · « **Reply #64 on:** March 11, 2014, 05:41 PM »

I wouldn't be too optimistic about the future of google and anonymity. Judging by their approach to YouTube/g+ anyways.

c.gingerich · « **Reply #65 on:** March 11, 2014, 08:04 PM »

Ok. I found a better service. I can connect to http://imgur.com so I am going to use that. It will work better with my application as you do not need to share the image files and I can save the URLs just like I was able to do with imm.io. I am going to start working on it as soon as I can. My life got very busy over the past few weeks but I'll do my best.

Cerberus™ · « **Reply #66 on:** March 12, 2014, 01:04 AM »

Yes!! Imgur is very good in my experience. I used to use a similar program that depended on Imgur, and Imgur was definitely not the weakest link there. I'm really looking forward to a new version of ICUP. But no hurry! All this you're doing is a favour to the Internet, and we will absolutely understand if it takes a while (or if you never get to it, even).

c.gingerich · « **Reply #67 on:** March 12, 2014, 08:33 PM »

Ok. It did not take that long to add Imgur.com support. The beta version is available for download at http://icup.pen.io.

Please give it a try and let me know what you think and please report any bugs.

Thanks!

This screenshot was taken using ICUP. http://i.imgur.com/uGPxJ8O.png

Cerberus™ · « **Reply #68 on:** March 13, 2014, 03:01 AM »

Wow, it works!! Thank you so much! It's really cool and convenient, I will use this every day. And you were so blazingly quick!

One small thing: it automatically installed the entire program to Documents and Settings\User\Application Data\ICUP on my Windows XP. When I changed the hotkey, I got some error messages. The location seemed odd anyway, so I moved the program by hand to Programs\ICUP, and then the errors stopped; now it's working perfectly. So perhaps it was looking for the .ini file in the wrong location?

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c.gingerich · « **Reply #69 on:** March 13, 2014, 11:36 AM »

I'm glad you like it, thanks!

Yeah. I have it "install" there b/c it is easier. I may change that and make a full installer once I take it out of beta.

Cerberus™ · « **Reply #70 on:** March 13, 2014, 11:59 AM »

If others don't get the error messages upon changing the hotkey whole keeping the program in \Application Data, then perhaps it is a peculiarity of my computer or of Windows XP. It doesn't matter much anyway.

c.gingerich · « **Reply #71 on:** March 13, 2014, 12:00 PM »

I think I am going to be making it a complete portable app now. No install at all and all data is saved in the same location as the main EXE.

Cerberus™ · « **Reply #72 on:** March 13, 2014, 12:33 PM »

Sounds OK. We can make a shortcut in Programs>Startup ourselves. You could use one of those programs that automatically create an installer, though, and store everything in %PROGRAMFILES%\ICUP . It's awfully convenient for new users to have everything set up automatically. But it doesn't really matter that much either way, I'd say.
I have used Inno in the past and it worked great: http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php

c.gingerich · « **Reply #73 on:** March 13, 2014, 01:09 PM »

Ok. New version 2.0.1.0. Now should be completely portable, no install. I even added an "Add to startup" (and "remove from startup") tray menu item.

Please give it a try and let me know any feedback. :-)

http://icup.pen.io

Cerberus™ · « **Reply #74 on:** March 13, 2014, 03:16 PM »

Cool! It all works as it should, I'm happy.