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Coding Snacks represent the best of DonationCoder.

On a special section of our forum, anyone can post an idea for a small custom utility/program.

Coders who hang out on our forum keep an eye out for interesting requests and when they see one that catches their interest, they code it and release it to the public for free.

People who find the tools useful are encouraged to donate directly to the coders to show their appreciation.

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Screenshot Captor shines when it comes to processing a captured screen. MWSnap was only able to save it in various formats while Mouser's software can add elements to the screen before saving it. It is nevertheless possible to simply save it and use it that way. Users who like to add text, images or objects to screenshots on the other hand will find all the tools they need to do just that.. The screen capture software should be the right application for anyone who takes screenshots regularly. Users who process their screenshots afterwards will find all the tools they need to do just that without the need to install an image editor to do so.
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Coding Snack: Photo Downloader Kiosk

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Hello,

My robotics team runs a tournament every year for younger kids.  An idea of mine for this year's tournament is to have a continually running slideshow of pictures on one of the projectors.  It would be great if I could have a computer set up with a media reader where people (coaches, spectators, etc) could insert a card and download their pictures to the computer to be immediately added to the slideshow.  So, here's my idea:

a kiosk-like program that allows a user to download all or some photos from a memory card (I've got one of those read-all-card-types readers that maps to four drives) to a folder that I specify in a config file (probably on a networked computer e.g. \\mycomp\slideshow\) in a datetime-stamped folder (to avoid name conflicts) with a minimum of user effort.  Kind of like one of those photo kiosks that can be found at Walgreens, etc, but much simpler.  Just a spash screen, a photo-select screen for once the user has inserted a memory card, a copying screen, and a done screen.  Or something.

I am a programmer, and if nobody is interested I will code this myself, so don't spend a lot of time on it.  But, the members of this forum are much more talented than I am and so I'm sure you could whip something up easier than I could.

Thanks, Nick

Click here to read about and download the utility written by DC member to do this..



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