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ShareX is a free and open source program that lets you capture or record any area of your screen and share it with a single press of a key. It also allows uploading images, text or other types of files to many supported destinations you can choose from.
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Suggestion: Pin to screen (from file) as a context menu option #7355

Open burneech opened 5 months ago

burneech commented 5 months ago

I had a good look around and couldn't find this option in the application or suggested here, so here it is (sorry if I still missed it somewhere). Also thank you @Jaex and everyone else for contributing to this great piece of software.

I often use the Edit with ShareX option in the context menu that shows when right clicking an image file. It would be great to also have a Pin to screen with ShareX option, something like this:

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This option would basically skip the following steps: Tools > Pin to screen... > Pin to screen from file... > Navigating to the image we would like to pin in the Open File dialog (Yes, the first three steps could be eliminated by using a Pin to screen (From file) hotkey, but the Open File dialog would always remain).

By having a Pin to screen option in the context menu, we would have a direct reference to the image that we want to pin, so this would eliminate the need for going through the Open File dialog, and the already existing logic of pinning an image to the screen from a file could then be executed.

thereddestdog commented 5 months ago

I would like this as well!

Combinacijus commented 5 months ago

As workaround you could setup "Pin to screen (From clipboard)" image

  1. Select file
  2. Ctrl+C
  3. <Your + Shortcut> Pin to screen (From clipboard)
burneech commented 5 months ago

As workaround you could setup "Pin to screen (From clipboard)" image

1. Select file

2. Ctrl+C

3. <Your + Shortcut> Pin to screen (From clipboard)

Yep, that's a great idea @Combinacijus, thanks for sharing!

To improve this workaround even further: I set my Pin to screen (From clipboard) hotkey to Ctrl + PrintScreen, which makes it feel like there are only these two steps:

1. Select file
2. Ctrl + C + PrintScreen