Screen Grab on Win7: Impossible defaults

[lukaschristmann]

Default Configuration for Screen Grab appears to be the "Win8 Desktop Duplication" which isn't available on Win7. The config items to change this so the tool can work with Win7 are hidden behind the "expert" mode switch. There is no way to tell you're having a configuration problem without opening expert mode (and then realizing that the api probably isn't available on Win7...

My ideas on how to solve this:

• Check for Windows version on selecting "screen grab" mode and
  • display a Dialog to tell the user what to do
  • just change the setting
• move the setting out of the "expert zone"

[psieg]

The majority of people use something newer than Windows 7 now and it reaches end of life early next year. Desktop duplication is a sane default for most users, and most users don't need to tweak the grabber, so only option one makes sense. Due to the userbase I feel it's not worth the effort for me, but anyone is welcome to submit a PR.