Screencap rather slow

[GoogleCodeExporter]

Hi,

i don't know whether it's me being picky, but i'm encountering the a 
performance-problem, when i'm actually taking the screenshot.

When i click the "Screenshot -> as..." menu button it takes about 3 or 4 
seconds until the screen turns dark and i can actually select an area  for the 
shot.
After the selection the screenshot is taken and uploaded very fast, that works 
fine.

I wonder if this is a general behaviour or just a problem of my setup.

By the way i use a 2 monitor setup, so maybe the plugin has it's problems 
calculating the overlay.

Greetings and a nice evening. :>

Pidgin version: 2.7.10
Purple library version (libpurple): 2.7.10
Operating System: Windows 7

Original issue reported on code.google.com by sockenkl...@gmail.com on 15 Mar 2011 at 10:58

[GoogleCodeExporter]

Hello and sorry for the late answer,

It is not configuration related problem, the plugin stores the pixel data using 
a single loop, and applies the dark effect with a single loop too. No 
parallelization is used... that's one of the several things I should do to 
improve the speed.

Waiting for a better release, you can try to disable the "dark" effect from the 
config dialog.

Original comment by these.rberger@gmail.com on 1 Apr 2011 at 9:30

• Changed state: Accepted

[GoogleCodeExporter]

I have this issues as well. I disabled the dark effect but it didn't help at 
all.

Original comment by ohmyja...@gmail.com on 18 Jan 2014 at 4:05