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Very Nice

Requests :
- Ask to create destination directory if it doesn't exist
- Open destination folder option
- Show GUI option in Tray menu


Bugs :
- Preview didn't work when the script was run for the first time (was there but the window was not tall enough to display it)
- Region only works once. After that the script must be restarted to select a different region. However, Capture Redo will capture the same region of the screen again until a different capture option has been used.

What AHK version are you using? You must have the latest. If you don't this might explain the region problem.

User can select a path with the FolderSelect dialog and also add new folders. I prefer it that way, since it prevents wrong spellings of existing paths. These missspellings would otherwise lead to multiple paths which should be identical. If you want you can set the edit field read only.
Secondly it is a lot of code if you want capture if the user has added a complete path e.g. C:\t\s\u\v\w\x, where all folders do not exist. Then AHK would have to go through all of them and create them individually.
Could you suggest a code freagment with feedback to the user that does this nicely?

I do not understand, could you please clarify?

I do not what to make the Tray menu too big, so I just put the basic stuff in there. The options have to be set in the GUI.

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1.0.38.00



A Button or menu option to open the folder that contains the captured images. If I was to capture a few images it would be great to have quick access to where they are stored when finshed instead of having to open explorer and browse to the folder manually .


I can understand that but If I want to change te path and/or filename I cannot seem to get to the gui unless I choose to capture something or choose Options then click cancel.

you'll need 1.0.38.02

That is a good idea. Whould it be ok, to have a button that opens the path in the explorer. Or would it need more options? What would be a good caption for that button? "Go"? "Dest."? "Open"?
I would place it next to the Options button.

Good point, I will add a tray menu to show the Gui.

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I have updated the first post:
050912: New tray option to show Gui (thanks corrupt)
050912: New Gui button and tray option to open destination (thanks corrupt)

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Thanks toralf . I updated to the latest version of AHK (1.0.38.03), updated to your latest version and now Region now seems to work great. Thanks for adding a couple of the suggested options also. This script is very handy .

Very nice script...

I changed the start of the script a bit, to try to get the path to IrfanView if installed, couldn't find no useable registry information to check for. The next step would be to offer the option of downloading and installing IrfanView if not found, which can be done silent with command line commands...:



Two questions:

- Could you add built in Help?
- Would it be possible to do all this without IrfanView? With dll-calls maybe?

Thank you for the suggestion. but I will not add this to the script, since I assume that the user already has Irfanview installed.

I do not know on what help is needed. I tried to make everything selfexplaining. If not, let me know.

Yes, I assume it is possible. But I didn't want to reinvent the wheel, and since IrfanView has a lot of options, why should I do it? If you have further questions have a talk with shimanov or see the topic on "drag a frame on screen" it contains some examples on how it would be possible.

Thanks

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The following registry keys should be present in all default (or otherwise) installs of IrfanView. You may consider checking these keys, before asking a user to manually select the location of the program.



Hope this is helpful.

Great tool.
another suggestion.
png format with 0-9 compression option?

q: script seems to work even though Effects.dll is not in the same directory asi_view32.exe.

This is not possible, since IrfanView doesn't support it as an commandline option.

It will work if you do not use all options the script provides. I do not remember exactly for which options it is needed, but I guess it was for sharpen and contrast.

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Hi Toralf


you missed the important lines:

I created two new variables B_ScreenWidth and B_ScreenHeight with the
Sysget command. They hold the width and heiight of the virtual, multi-monitor screen. I changed all further references of A_Screen.... to B_Screen... in your script.

this is the answer from Irfan:

I will wait for the new Irfanview version, adapt your actual version of the script, and post again here.

Thanks HPS,

You are right I didn't see the SysGet.

It is great that you contacted Irfan and that they fix it.

Thank you for the follow up.

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Hi Toralf,

I have implemented some nice ( for me ) features

hard coded:
- Show Easycopy in Tray toggles show/hide
- edit button to open the last saved file in Irfanview

configurable:
- do not show Gui after capture
- do not show Gui on startup
- show/hide Gui by single click on tray icon
hide by right click on titlebar ( instead of rollup/down )
- open button shows irfanview thumbnails instead of folder


I have used HyperSnap as screencopy program until now,
and I am accustomed to these features.

moved up before " ;tray menu " :


adapted code snippets :

Could you please send me your complete code? I'll add it to the first post.
Have you also implemented the multi screen capture?

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