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Author Topic: How do I manually scroll webpage while selecting rectangle?  (Read 9,730 times)

Evolvei

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I want to manually scroll a page down after selecting the top width of the rectangle to capture the entire rectangle that extends below visual area.

I am not looking for an alternate way to do this. I want to manually scroll while selecting rectangle.

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Re: How do I manually scroll webpage while selecting rectangle?
« Reply #1 on: March 30, 2014, 09:12 PM »
I want to do pretty much same thing, whether manual or automatic, to get one continuous rectangle - in my case, entire window scrolled from top to bottom, with no page breaks.  I have played with v.4.8 for a couple hours and can't seem to configure correctly to get desired result. 

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Re: How do I manually scroll webpage while selecting rectangle?
« Reply #2 on: March 30, 2014, 09:23 PM »
You can select manual scrolling mode from the scrolling capture page, but it's not very well developed and can be a real pain.

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Re: How do I manually scroll webpage while selecting rectangle?
« Reply #3 on: April 02, 2014, 05:07 PM »
Hi, mouser.
I tried that option to get a scrolling window.  And it did it.

From floating bar: I hit ctrl and rightclick to get menu, then Select Object, and the hit option 3 to Begin a Scrolling Window Capture on this Object - and yes it does scroll all way to bottom and produce a single image.  The image shows several breaks all along it (like window captures, one after another).  I prefer the image without showing bars or breaks.  If I can only get this result, I can learn to live with it. 

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Re: How do I manually scroll webpage while selecting rectangle?
« Reply #4 on: April 02, 2014, 05:12 PM »
have you checked out the videos on performing scrolling captures? Sometimes they can help show you the different options for automatically stitching together scrolling window captures:

http://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=29821.msg277095#msg277095

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Re: How do I manually scroll webpage while selecting rectangle?
« Reply #5 on: April 22, 2014, 07:43 PM »
As we speak I am completely revamping the "manual" method of performing a scrolling capture, to make it a viable option for tricky circumstances where automatic scrolling fails.

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Re: How do I manually scroll webpage while selecting rectangle?
« Reply #6 on: April 23, 2014, 09:58 PM »
The new beta (4.8.4) now has a completely revamped Manual Scrolling Capture system, that should make it a lot less painful to use SC to capture a window which you the user manually scroll the contents of.

Let me know what you think.

Video demonstration of new manual scrolling is here: http://www.donationcoder.com/screencasts/dc/3ds/sc29/sc29.html
« Last Edit: April 25, 2014, 07:10 PM by mouser »

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