Snapshop 2.1 Beta

[eesau]

Nice, I was just looking for a screen recorder the other day. I gave this a quick go and it seemed to work pretty well, so good job!

[eddy]

Nice job

[electrochrisso]

Looks good, thanks for making.
Small problem. When I download the file Snapshop_2.0_US it has htm extension, when I change this to rar the file opens ok, is this intended, or just a glitch at my end.

[Lord]

Nice toy!

But doesn't work with a second monitor.
You can move the "camera" to the second
monitor but get only a black picture.
My second monitor is placed left of main
monitor and has coordinates -1280 to -1
in x-axis.

[electrochrisso]

That's strange, which Browser? Even a Right-Click -> Save As... will download the File regularly.

Strange Indeed.
This happens with Opera, even with rightclick > save to download folder. I tried IE and it was ok, next I download an rar file in Opera from the purearea and it has the rar extention like it should, then I tried another rar file from your site and the same thing, I am not sure if it is Opera just on my machine or its a thing between Opera and your server in general.
The only other thing I could try is download another file from your server with a different extension to rar and see what happens, if you can give me a link to try.

[Deluxe0321]

OT:
This is caused by the Server/Script and is not Operas fault.

Response Header while trying to download http://www.mevedia.de/system/files/priv ... ee-1.0.rar

Code: Select all

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2013 06:49:42 GMT
Server: Apache
Expires: Sun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT
Etag: "1366440582"
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="GIFK_Free-1.0.rar" << FileName defined
Cache-Control: private
Last-Modified: Sat, 20 Apr 2013 06:49:42 GMT
Content-Length: 632204
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1  << This is a text/html file

Content-Type is higher "evaluated" than the filename itself.
There are two possibilitys now, strip the Content-Type tag or include the correct mime-type ( http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_mime.html ).

[USCode]

Good work. Was this done with just native PB cross-platform commands or did you have to resort to using any platform-specific API?

[luis]

I gave it a very quick try.
I liked it very much, the sizeable camera with all the tools on top, the fact I can save the camera properties on file, It's really nice.
Seems to have really many interface-bugs tough, but since you are about to release the 3 soon probably it's better to wait for that one before reporting any.
The 2.1 save only in gif format right ?
Will there be the possibility to save audio too using another format (I saw you mentioned avi) or this is intended for animated gif only ?
Anyway really nice with great possibilities.
With audio too it would be something I would really like to use.

[luis]

Could you describe those Interface-Bugs? There shouldn't be any on Vista or later

I quickly tried but I cannot reproduce them right now, obviously

Going by memory this is what happened:

1) add camera
2) move the camera around and put it on position (on a youtube video)
3) resize the camera window to get the whole video
4) click on the properties to see them (blackish window at the right), close the properties
5) start recording clicking on the button floating on top of the the window
6) at this point I moved the mouse and the window (it was still in edit mode somehow, same color) moved around with me (while the video was recording it seems)
7) I had to kill the program to free the mouse from the "follower" window

Then I tried again using the F8 to record instead of clicking and worked.

Another strange thing happened when I finished recording but I don't remember how I got it: re-enabling the editing of the window and then moving it around it left some ghost of itself (windows without the tooltip on the tops), and clicking on them didn't do anything. Again I quit.
But I don't remember the exact steps involved.

And as I said, now doesn't happen, problem is now I tend to do different things since I know a little about the program compared to the first time.
I'll try once more with the same initial spirit (let's try this program I never saw before) to see if I can reproduce them again.

I use win7 x64

[luis]

Best Bug-Reports, are Bug-Reports on the same System as mine - and i can't reproduce these Issues.

I found a sequence that makes it happen every time:

1) Run the program
2) tools -> add camera
3) click on the properties to see them (blackish window at the right)
5) select the option motion -> frame rate optimized
6) start recording clicking with the mouse on the floating button
7) at this point moving the mouse the white window follows it instead of staying in place

If I click F8 to exit from recording mode I can at least close the program, even if doing so one time out of three simply crashed ("this program closed unexpectedly").

[luis]

"Frame-Rate optimized" is already a Motion . If you use the Motion you can only stop recording by pressing the Hotkey.

I don't understand. Is it normal you can move the window around while you are recording ?
I though you had to select an area and then record that area.
If it's normal then it's not a bug, simply I don't understand the program.
I'm guessing because without an helpfile I don't know what the program is supposed to do, only what I thought it was supposed to do.
I though "motion" and "frame rate optimized" were terms somewhat associated to the way the program analyze the screen to create the frames.

Ahhhh, I tried again... it's meant to record while moving too... so motion is an in "camera motion". I understand. So it was my fault for not understanding it, I'm sorry, it's not a bug.

It crashes after pressing F8 to stop recording?

After the sequence I described yes, trying to click on the main window to close it. But it does happen rarely, not everytime.

I'll try again see if I can see a pattern.

EDIT: I can tell you that when happens does not show the message "there are files in the gallery", it crashes before showing it.
Happens sometimes, but I don't see a sequence where it happens consistently.
Uhmm... I'm using a virtual screen manager (VirtuaWin). Can be interfering ?
Tried to close and then relaunch VirtuaWin. Tried your program again many times and doesn't crash anymore on exit.
I have some rules defined in VirtuaWin to dispatch automatically windows to different virtual screens based on their classes, so maybe there is a possibility, but I never had any problem before. Don't know.