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wtg



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PostPosted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 3:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Since this turned into a screen capture thread, might I suggest MW Snap. http://www.mirekw.com/winfreeware/mwsnap.html

It's freeware, been around forever and it works great. It'll automatically assign filenames - auto-numbering and including date and time stamps if desired - great for multiple successive captures, supports JPG saves and a variety of other image formats. It captures full-screen, active window, fixed area and mouse selectable area, as well as repeats last capture area.

It'll display an on-screen ruler for measuring pixel widths (vertically and horizontally), a color picker, a zoom tool and a window-info tool.

It's just a great app. Give it a try.
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Thalon



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PostPosted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 10:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
I've tried MW Snap now.
It's rather nice, but it doesn't offer to send the screenshot directly to clipboard. Sad
I do use this function often (every day several times for documentation-purposes).
Edit: I'm sorry. I found how to set it right. Nice app Smile

It does also have a bug that made me laughing:
1) Open the options-menu.
--> It's modal now, so main app is not clickable.
2) Change the option "Q Minimize on closing the main window using button [X]"
3) Overtake the action (not closing the window via OK)
--> Main app comes into front. You can interact with both windows now.

The following are resulting things of point 3):
4A) If you press the close-button of the main-app only a warning appears that it closes into tray instead of closing completely. If you set the check further clicks on the close-button do simply nothing.

4B) If you try to open the settings-window another time you'll get the following error-message:
Quote:
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MWSnap - Namenlos (side-note: means "Nameless")
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Cannot make a visible window modal.
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OK
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I've sent this bugreport to the developer Wink

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wtg



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PostPosted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 12:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Just to clarify Thalon's edit above - MW Snap can be configured to automatically copy the image snapshot to the clipboard.

One other thing I should point out about MW Snap: you can use it to take snapshots of things that normally close when they lose focus, such as some menus, certain drop-downs, tooltips, etc. There are a few controls that Windows' built-in screen capture abilities and some other capture apps don't seem to be able to capture, but that's not the case with MW Snap.
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 4:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Alan Stancliff wrote:
tonne wrote:
FastStone Captura is no longer freeware...


Here's how to save a very small-sized GIF of the dialog box with no extra software and with very little time and effort.
  1. Do a print screen. This copies your monitor content, including an image of the text message into the clipboard
  2. Open PAINT, the little utility present in every version of Windows
  3. Paste contents of clipboard into PAINT (<ctrl><v>). Paint automatically selects the entire image, and the select button is activated.
  4. Click the ERASE key. One clunky think about PAINT is that pasting something into a new document screen automatically selects the entire image and activates the SELECT tool by default. You want to deselect the image and activate the SELECT tool anew.
  5. So click the SELECT tool again and select just the portion of the image with the text message.
  6. Hit <ctrl><c>, copying just the part of the image with the text message to the clipboard.
  7. Go to FILE, click NEW. Click NO if prompted to save image. You will have a new blank PAINT document.
  8. Click on IMAGE, then ATTRIBUTES. A dialog will open asking what size the new image is. Put in a size much smaller than you need. Putting in 10 and 10 pixels will probably work.
  9. Paste with <ctrl><v>. The screen enlarges to accommodate the new picture size. If prompted with message asking if you want to enlarge screen to accommodate message, say YES.
  10. Click SAVE AS and save as GIF.

That will get you a pretty small file with no extra software needed


I've done this one MANY times {though just found out about the "alt-print scrn" through this thread today}. But to deselect the entire image all you have to do is hit the <Esc> key. That will deselect and keep the SELECT active. Also, if you've opened a new Paint for this process, simply select the portion you want, then do: ctrl-c, ctrl-z {to remove the entire image}, ctrl-v, then save it however you wish {I always end up adjusting the size with those little squares at the edges to fit my image before saving}.

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