Handy Screen Shot Utility

DispatchDragon · Post by **DispatchDragon** » 06 Dec 2006, 16:17

Thank You John

As Garry says Ive been using Snapper for so long - and it takes me
half my time removing the default location/altitude stuff

Leif

Post by **Garry Russell** » 06 Dec 2006, 16:19

Cheers guys..I give em all a try.....Dan thanks, I am in no hurry so whenever.

Thanks

Gets a bit tiresome having to load into ARC each shot.

Gary

DanKH · Post by **DanKH** » 06 Dec 2006, 16:25

I take all my screenies with "CBM" (that's the name)

Like I said I works just as the Print Screen button does (and only with graphical files) and saves it instantly in the predefined folder.

The naming of the file is the name of the process your in (eg. fs.exe or whatever) concatenated with a timestamp. (works with all application and the desktop or whatever, Exactly like the Print Screen)

So while you're flying, take as many snapshots as you like, and do the graphical editing afterwards....It is "As Easy As It Gets"....

Somewhat like using a digital camera, you only use the good pictures, the rest you throw away ;-)

Well that must be enough advertizing

Post by **Garry Russell** » 06 Dec 2006, 16:26

Sounds like my kinda thing Dan

Garry

DanKH · Post by **DanKH** » 06 Dec 2006, 16:28

I would believe so.

Remember all good programmers are lazy, and hence their programs tends to do life a bit easy every time...;-)

Sorry for hi-jacking the thread and turn it into an advertisement.....I just thought of grabbed me..;-)

JohnWillimas · Post by **JohnWillimas** » 06 Dec 2006, 16:37

Phew!!! What a lot of traffic in just under the hour.

One thing I liked about YAFFScreen - not tried any of the others - is the fact that it will resize pictures as they are taken, if you wish, so you can run at 1280x1024 and produce 800x640 screen shots which meet formum limits....

Post by **RAF_Quantum** » 06 Dec 2006, 16:44

Hmm, just tried YAF and it's OK but I have a dual monitor set-up and it won't crop like Snapper, which is a feature I like. Snapper would be great if it would remember your settings between sessions. Yours sounds interesting Dan, will it crop so that it just takes the shot of one monitor?

Rgds

John

DanKH · Post by **DanKH** » 06 Dec 2006, 16:48

As I said, It works exactly like the Print Screen button does.

If you run full screen it takes full screen, if you run windowed, it contains what you see on your monitor.

Using ALT-Print Scrn on a windowed application takes a snap of the active window...

Just like Print Screen.

The only thing is that you don't have to save the snap manually until after wards.

DanKH · Post by **DanKH** » 06 Dec 2006, 16:49

JohnWillimas wrote:you can run at 1280x1024 and produce 800x640 screen shots which meet formum limits....

That sound like a good idea, maybe I should implement that....

speedbird591 · Post by **speedbird591** » 06 Dec 2006, 18:57

But Dan, wouldn't it be better to save the original at a larger size in case I asked you to send me a copy for my background collection? You can reduce later for a forum shot but you can't do it the other way round.

Ian