Capture Area

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What new or enhanced feature are you proposing?
Smart Capture
   1) Would like to see smart captures of windows or area.  e.g in Firebug in firefox you have "click an element in the page to inspect" it know what area of the windows.
   2) Also have the ability to auto scroll in a region where the capturing is taking.

What goal would this enhancement help you achieve?
    No more cropping or piece together area and make it easy to capture certain part/area of the screen/application.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by eml.pa...@gmail.com on 17 Sep 2012 at 3:26

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I think the user here is asking for:

1) capturing of specific HTML areas, as in Firebug's highlight. I think this 
feature would be clunky and bloated, but it could be worth a try.

2) Automatically scroll a window so you can capture contents longer or wider 
than your window, such as long posts, etc. While I think this would be 
incredibly useful, I also think it might go against the way screenshots are 
currently taken.

Original comment by mopqu...@gmail.com on 30 Sep 2012 at 12:33

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1) I was giving an example of Firebug's highlight, could you apply that to the 
application or capture window?  Another example would be Microsoft Syp++, using 
the "finder tool" to capture the highlighted area.

2) I think it's still nice to have, once this tool implemented to only capture 
certain area only (possible future request).

Thank you for the hard work in making this tool what it is today and available 
for everyone.

Original comment by eml.pa...@gmail.com on 2 Oct 2012 at 2:39

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For 1) I still don't know what you mean. For 2) I believe ShareX/mod both use 
the current image from the display driver to take apart -- i.e. they don't 
actually know what they're taking screenshots of, and could not scroll a 
window, click something, etc. Assuming you want to use this for web pages, 
there are browser plugins that do this.

Either way, 2 is a feature request for ShareX, not ShareXmod: 
https://code.google.com/p/sharex/issues/ Please try to explain in different 
words what you mean for 1.

Original comment by mopqu...@gmail.com on 21 Mar 2013 at 11:13

• Changed state: Incomplete
• Added labels: Priority-Low
• Removed labels: Priority-Medium

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Hello,
    Yes, this has been a long time... Please delete the request, I found
Snagit does it.

Original comment by eml.pa...@gmail.com on 22 Mar 2013 at 1:29

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I'm still curious as to what request 1 was in the first place. Even if we go 
back to the premise of a smart capture, windows aren't made of DOM elements 
like they are in browsers. I'm not sure what you'd expect to click to get the 
"smart capture" parts. Which part does Snagit do, 1, or 2?

Anyhow, 2 is still possibly a feature request, I just don't know if mcored 
would want to add it, or if it would conflict with the way things work now. 
I'll mark this as accepted for now, and get his input on 2. In the meantime, 
explaining 1 would be helpful.

Original comment by mopqu...@gmail.com on 22 Mar 2013 at 4:17

• Changed state: Accepted

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Hi,
   To honest it hard to expland, they do have a trail version to download...
http://www.techsmith.com/download/snagit/default.asp

Original comment by eml.pa...@gmail.com on 22 Mar 2013 at 4:22

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Do you mean that you can hover an area with the mouse, and it will attempt to 
guess the full area you're trying to snapshot? Does this only work with web 
pages, or windows, too, or what? I appreciate the link, but I really don't want 
to install another program.

Original comment by mopqu...@gmail.com on 22 Mar 2013 at 4:24

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Yes, it attempt to guess the area you're trying to snapshot.  It work on
all (widnow, webpages, apps).

Original comment by eml.pa...@gmail.com on 22 Mar 2013 at 4:26

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I guess I should give some example, like toolbar, titlebar, menu, etc.

Original comment by eml.pa...@gmail.com on 22 Mar 2013 at 4:28

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Alrighty. I'll consider these both enhancement requests, and see what mcored 
thinks. I like the ideas now that I understand them. Anyhow, thanks you 
explaining. =]

Original comment by mopqu...@gmail.com on 22 Mar 2013 at 4:29

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Sorry, there is an excellent guide on how to precisely capture Shapes using 
keyboard arrows and mouse: 
https://code.google.com/p/sharex/wiki/CapturingShapes

This is like mopquill said beyond SoW for this FOSS project. 

Original comment by mcored on 1 Apr 2013 at 7:41

• Changed state: WontFix

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That means that if you're still interested in having this, I'd recommend 
reporting them and seeing if flexy wants to add them to ShareX. Changes made in 
ShareX will cascade into ShareXmod over time.

Original comment by mopqu...@gmail.com on 1 Apr 2013 at 10:57