Take a Shot! - yet another screenshot utility...
Yeah, puppy spoils me - always giving me the functionality I want (that's why i stick with Puppy!).
Question: - when you have highlighted the desired region in mtpaint are you able to use the shift+ctrl+X shortcut to crop? (Not sure if that is a global mtpaint shortcut or if it is just the way my clipboard is modified)
Question: - when you have highlighted the desired region in mtpaint are you able to use the shift+ctrl+X shortcut to crop? (Not sure if that is a global mtpaint shortcut or if it is just the way my clipboard is modified)
Hello greengeek.greengeek wrote:Yeah, puppy spoils me - always giving me the functionality I want (that's why i stick with Puppy!).
Question: - when you have highlighted the desired region in mtpaint are you able to use the shift+ctrl+X shortcut to crop? (Not sure if that is a global mtpaint shortcut or if it is just the way my clipboard is modified)
Yes.
The key combo for this operation is shown in the Image sub-menu vis-a-vis
"Crop". I tested it, and it works fine.
BFN.
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I don't understand your question. TAS already offers the choice to take a shot of the whole screen, a single window or a region. No need for mtpaint.greengeek wrote:The question is could TAS be expanded with a button that bypasses the mtpaint programme and lets the user select a rectangle (or circle) straight off the desktop (like "clipping tool" in Windows)?
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What for? It is already saved to the directory and filename you specified in the main dialog. You don't have to select Edit, you can simply exitgreengeek wrote:Once you have used TAS to capture a region of the screen - would it be possible to add a "save as" button instead of having to select "Edit" and go via mtpaint?
Ok, I'll put my finger between the tree and the bark... being fully aware
that it is quite dangerous to get on the bad side of MochiMoppei...
Can anybody prove -- I mean with lots of evidence, a proper how-to and
explanations! -- that the region function works in TAS? It never worked
for me. Which is why I suggested to greengeek that he use mtpaint for that.
Mind you, TAS remains a superior utility even with a limp region function.
Awaiting my own demotion!
TIA! (I'm a masochist at heart...)
that it is quite dangerous to get on the bad side of MochiMoppei...
Can anybody prove -- I mean with lots of evidence, a proper how-to and
explanations! -- that the region function works in TAS? It never worked
for me. Which is why I suggested to greengeek that he use mtpaint for that.
Mind you, TAS remains a superior utility even with a limp region function.
Awaiting my own demotion!
TIA! (I'm a masochist at heart...)
musher0
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Screenshot was taken with region function. It works as per instructions.
Click it says, not drag (which is what you would do in other applications). The "release mouse button" might be confusing. Don't know how to click without releasing the mouse button. Probably SFR's desperate attempt to keep users from dragging.
Click it says, not drag (which is what you would do in other applications). The "release mouse button" might be confusing. Don't know how to click without releasing the mouse button. Probably SFR's desperate attempt to keep users from dragging.
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I'll be happy to translate SFR's instruction for you, but your are the professional translator here, not me. If you feel that the text is too demanding you should get in contact with SFR and work on a better version. Or ask greengeek, he finally got it. An explanation in proper and native English might earn him a promotion
MochiMoppel wrote:Screenshot was taken with region function. It works as per instructions.
Click it says, not drag (which is what you would do in other applications). The "release mouse button" might be confusing. Don't know how to click without releasing the mouse button. Probably SFR's desperate attempt to keep users from dragging.
Gaawwwd dam#! I feel like a blithering idiot....all this time I thought TAS had gone into "dis-repair" and "has-been" status because it could not do a "region" shot, and thus made myself move on using PupSnap/Scrot and/or the cumbersome mtpaint workaround. But here I read this thread and I was performing the TAS region function wrong. Argh at myself.... Thank you, Musher, for asking the question, and thank you Mochi for answering. I gotta say in my defense, this business of "click top-left, then click bottom-right" I probably never would have figured out on my own----mainly because sometimes I am too stupid or stubborn to read the documentation & instructions
Region...
Well guys, since there's no dedicated utility for this task in practically any Puppy, I had to do it in a tricky way using 'xwininfo' and 'getcurpos' utilities, like this:
It works, but the drawback is the unusual and unintuitive manner of selecting.
As far as I know TAS is the only shell-based screenshot application/frontend that has this functionality at all...
Anyway, in Fatdog, which comes with xrectsel installed OOTB, TAS (v1.12+) can select a region with dragging, as usual.
If anyone would like to try it, the attached is statically linked, 32bit binary, which (theoretically) should work in any x86 and x64 Puppy.
Just unpack, make executable and copy it to /usr/local/bin or similar location.
Greetings!
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xwininfo >/dev/null && getcurpos
As far as I know TAS is the only shell-based screenshot application/frontend that has this functionality at all...
Anyway, in Fatdog, which comes with xrectsel installed OOTB, TAS (v1.12+) can select a region with dragging, as usual.
If anyone would like to try it, the attached is statically linked, 32bit binary, which (theoretically) should work in any x86 and x64 Puppy.
Just unpack, make executable and copy it to /usr/local/bin or similar location.
Greetings!
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Re: Region...
I do not know about "any" but in slacko and xenial 32 and 64 bit versions works just fine.SFR wrote:If anyone would like to try it, the attached is statically linked, 32bit binary, which (theoretically) should work in any x86 and x64 Puppy.
Just unpack make it executable and copySFR wrote:Just unpack and copy it to /usr/local/bin or similar location.
(the static file is small but still 10+ times bigger that the dynamic one so puppy builders might consider compiling it)
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Hello all.
Here you go:
xrectsel for 32-bits,
freshly compiled from source on Slim Slacko 6 (glibc 2.17)
and
offered as a pet archive.
Enjoy!
Here you go:
xrectsel for 32-bits,
freshly compiled from source on Slim Slacko 6 (glibc 2.17)
and
offered as a pet archive.
Enjoy!
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