NickeManarin / ScreenToGif

🎬 ScreenToGif allows you to record a selected area of your screen, edit and save it as a gif or video.
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[Bug] The Recorder frame is extremely difficult to see when the screen has white/light content #1327

Open raindropsfromsky opened 2 months ago

raindropsfromsky commented 2 months ago

Describe the bug A clear and concise description of what the bug is.

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

  1. Open any application that has a white screen (e.g. a pdf reader, Text editor, etc.).
  2. Launch ScreenToGif
  3. Click on Recodring
  4. Try to locate the recorder window (it is nearly impossible to detect) [BUG] image
  5. Now launch any application with a dark theme (e.g. a browser). Repeat steps 3-4. This time it is much easier to set the recording frame.

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Expected behavior The recording frame should be easily recognizable regardless of the screen content. (e.g. render it with auto-contrast, or show its borders with "marching ants" (as InkScape shows)

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pawlos commented 1 month ago

@raindropsfromsky not a solution, but there are different color schemes available. You can try Medium or Dark, to see if that makes the frame might be a bit more visible for you depending on a case.

raindropsfromsky commented 1 month ago

@pawlos No matter what theme you select, the problem still remains! (I have both types of apps, with light and dark themes. So capturing some of them is always difficult.)

See the example below! image

The best solution is to have a auto-cotrasting border, or a moving border (marching ants).