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nkormanik

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Capture Only Grabs Upper-Left Portion of Screen
« on: February 12, 2021, 02:05 PM »
Tried as many different settings as I could think of in Preferences.

No matter what, only Upper-Left portion of screen gets captured.  Around 70% of the entire screen.

Any suggestions?

Thanks!

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Re: Capture Only Grabs Upper-Left Portion of Screen
« Reply #1 on: February 15, 2021, 02:40 PM »
This happened to me recently --it was as if SC was being confused by the monitor dimensions.
What mode of capture are you performing that this happens?

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Re: Capture Only Grabs Upper-Left Portion of Screen
« Reply #2 on: February 15, 2021, 03:05 PM »
Is it possible that this is related to having multiple monitors, and one is set at 125% resolution?

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Re: Capture Only Grabs Upper-Left Portion of Screen
« Reply #3 on: February 15, 2021, 03:52 PM »
For sure it is related to this problem.
There seem to be two interacting issues/solutions.. So I have a beta that fixes one half of the problem, but then causes another half of a problem to return.
The two problems seem to be related to the program tricking itself about monitor resolutions.  So in the first problem, its not capturing the entire monitor sometimes; and in the second problem its zooming the screen when you do a region capture.

I think I can work on a fix this week and hope to solve this once and for all.

But I'd like to make sure I understand nkormanik's problem -- whether its happening on a normal window or workspace capture, or a selected region drag+capture operation.

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Re: Capture Only Grabs Upper-Left Portion of Screen
« Reply #4 on: February 15, 2021, 08:24 PM »
Can you try this beta:
Download beta version (4.41.0 BETA) from here (or portable).
« Last Edit: February 16, 2021, 03:26 AM by mouser »

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Re: Capture Only Grabs Upper-Left Portion of Screen
« Reply #5 on: February 17, 2021, 01:31 AM »
Anyone with problems having the screen zoom in when you do a selected-region capture or similar bugs care to try this beta?

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Re: Capture Only Grabs Upper-Left Portion of Screen
« Reply #6 on: February 17, 2021, 08:38 AM »
I'm presently using only one monitor with my main computer.  UHD.  Windows increases zoom to 125%.  Always capture whole monitor.  (Easier to edit down the capture as wanted with another edit program.)

Interestingly another of mouser's programs "Automatic Screenshotter" works perfectly.  Terrific program.  Takes a pic of entire monitor every so many minutes (seconds, etc.).  Captures are named according to YOUR preferences.  (As with Screenshot Captor.)  That alone is a huge advantage over those capture programs that don't let YOU choose the filenames.

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Re: Capture Only Grabs Upper-Left Portion of Screen
« Reply #7 on: February 17, 2021, 05:58 PM »
I don't quite understand.  Are you saying the new beta of Screenshot Captor still has a problem? Can you explain the problem more?

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Re: Capture Only Grabs Upper-Left Portion of Screen
« Reply #8 on: February 17, 2021, 07:49 PM »
I tried the above beta (portable one) on my two monitor setup.  The screens are different sizes, so I tried it with the tops lined up, then the bottoms lined up.  Also tried it with one (then the other) at 125%.  Used "region capture" each time.    I was capturing both monitors each time.  It worked without any problems.  A+

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Re: Capture Only Grabs Upper-Left Portion of Screen
« Reply #9 on: February 17, 2021, 11:19 PM »
:Thmbsup: :Thmbsup:

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Re: Capture Only Grabs Upper-Left Portion of Screen
« Reply #10 on: March 19, 2021, 12:18 PM »
Still the same here.  Only upper-left portion of screen gets captured.

Maybe my settings/preferences are wrong??

Thanks.

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Re: Capture Only Grabs Upper-Left Portion of Screen
« Reply #11 on: March 19, 2021, 01:01 PM »
Did you try the new 4.41 beta above?

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Re: Capture Only Grabs Upper-Left Portion of Screen
« Reply #12 on: March 19, 2021, 02:49 PM »
I have the 4-41b in daily use.
My UWHD-Screen is captured completely without problems (3440 x 1440) with scale 100%.

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Re: Capture Only Grabs Upper-Left Portion of Screen
« Reply #13 on: March 19, 2021, 10:44 PM »
Yes, latest beta.  No luck.

Wonder what it could be.

Your other program, Automatic Screenshotter, takes full desktop/workstation pics.

I've looked and looked through settings, and think all the settings are fine.

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Re: Capture Only Grabs Upper-Left Portion of Screen
« Reply #14 on: March 19, 2021, 11:46 PM »
Can you try unpacking the portable version in another folder and running that version, just so we can see if a new copy behaves the same?
(make sure normal version is not running).

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