One thing people could do to help me is see if scrolling capture works AFTER you go into your windows display settings and turn off Aero Glass theme (select something like Windows Basic theme).

cranio, what application were you trying to scrolling capture? notepad?

Doesn't work with notepad.
Just captures what appears in the window, minus the last line

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That is exactly what always happens to me when I try to capture a scrolling window in the browser - any browser. Notepad was the first time it didn't flash like that, though it messed up the numbers.

Thanks!

Jim

Ok so let me talk a little bit about my scrolling capture plans.

I have rewritten the scrolling capture code from scratch, and i currently have a FRAGILE version of it working with the new method.

I would appreciate those especially on windows 7 who tried the notepad test and it failed, to give this new alpha version a try:
http://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Mouser/screenshotcaptor/downloads/alpha/ScreenshotCaptor.zip

NOTE: This zip contains a replacement exe that you need to copy into your existing SC folder over your existing exe file -- it will not work if you just try to run it on its own because it lacks the other files SC needs to run..

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Now, do *not* expect this to work on all kinds of advanced windows like firefox, etc.  I'm more interested if it works on notepad and when/why not.

The old method used a windows api drawing trick to figure out where to stitch images; the new method uses what i believe most modern scrolling capture tools now use -- which is basically to align images based on overlapping content.

The current code does a reasonable job in lots of cases, but is not perfect.

So here is what I plan:

Rather than stitching on the fly with hard-to-configure options, I propose to add a serious best-in-class scrolling capture function to Screenshot Captor.

Basically when you select that you want to do a scrolling capture, a dialog will come up with some (remembered per application) options that will let you tweak various aspects of the scrolling capture attempt -- necessary since different programs need different techniques.  This will also allow user to customize some other options for the capture -- region area, max # of pages,

SC will then capture a large number of images to disk, and then stitch them together AFTER THE FACT, rather than on the fly.  This should enable one to do a much better job of automatic stitching, as well as allow post-capture tweaking of the stitching settings, which should let you tweak up any misalignment, etc. and choose to break up the stitched image into multiple images if it's too large, etc.

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So anyway, i'm going to play with this new on-the-fly stiching for a bit, and then return to write the deluxe scrolling capture later.

I'm a brand new user who downloaded Screenshot Captor on the strength of the recommendation by Gizmo's TechSupportAlert website.  I need the scrolling capability in order to capture application screens.  The first thing after completing the download (and donation) was a scrolling capture of Firefox.  The first time it was bad with duplicate images that didn't match up.  The second time it was worse -- it got hung and never stopped capturing. 

After reading the forum comments suggesting that scrolling was not a high priority, I was discouraged.  I'm glad to see that you're going to focus on this feature and I'd like to offer my encouragement to you in hopes that you'll get the scrolling working soon.  Good luck!

Craig

so, should we simply replace the exe in a current install?
Or does this work on it's own? OK it works on it's own I think:

no, it is a replacement exe -- it willonly work properly ifyou copy it over your existing installed version of screenshot captor.

Why it got doubled up:

Screenshot captor thinks the horizontal scrollbar is telling it that the image is multiple windows wide, so it's trying to scroll sideways and stitch horizontally as well as vertically.

But the line numbers are messing it up since those don't scroll.

The way to handle that is by giving the user more control to specify the region containing scrollable content.

That will come in the final Deluxe scrolling capture solution.

This is just the tip of the iceberg proof of concept.. The final scrolling capture will be top of class.

....my ISP vanished for >24hrs — charming!

The scrolling capture ate them?!?!       

Jim

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Non Aero - notepad - loses the bottom line.

do you mean it loses the bottom line from every page, or it does a successful scrolling capture but fails to grab the very last line in the file?

Actually, it's worse than I thought.
From a file of 534 lines I get this [attachthumb]

I'm beginning to see why you had deferred this 

I tried keeping SSC locked in place and moving the monitor up and down but that didn't work either. 

please don't say that it supports scrolling screen function- it doesn't.  List it as a beta feature, or something - up front, before users jump thru all hoops to use it.

i hear ya.. for a while it was a reliable feature.. then ff versions and win7 broke all that and it's been pretty unreliable for a while now.

i done much of the work for a completely new wonderful scrolling capture -- it's coming soon.