Brian Scott

Scott Hansleman talked about Cropper during his GrokTalk at TechEd. It is also listed on his Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List now. The video of the GrokTalk should be available soon at the GrokTalk site...

http://blogs.geekdojo.net/brian/articles/Cropper.aspx Cropper is a great screen capture utility. ...

Very cool alternative to [Shft]+[PrintScreen]: Cropper Lots of options, very classy and it’s freeware… What is not to love!...

So Gerry posted about Sean's posts about commercials, etc.  Lot's of interesting stuff there --...

Love it. Thank you!

I am such a big fan of Cropper!  The latest release has exposed a plugin interface that allows developers...

Just finished up a new plugin for Cropper. More details and downloads can be found at: http://paltman.com/blogs/blog/archive/2005/07/09/10.aspx.

Patrick has created a great new plug-in for Cropper 1.6 Beta. It posts the screenshot to TinyPic (a free image hosting service) and places the url to the image on the clipboard...

I'm so pleased, I finally got my new computer at work. Now the migration begins.
Here's the list of...

I had some ideas for further development, and since I've got my free-time coding plate full up, I thought I'd post them here instead of just doing them myself.

1) quick and easy way to take a full screen shot using cropper (eg: a menu option which would maximize the window).

1.a) Maybe a different hotkey could just automatically take a full screenshot, and use the cropper window for the thumbnail

1.b) Ability to reposition the thumbnail sub-window somewhere other than the middle (ideally, make it as easy to drag & resize as the main window)

2) how about specifying an overlay that could be applied to the thumbnail and/or the main image, so I could, for instance, put a png file with my URL in it and have it applied as a sort-of watermark to the main image, or specify a "frame" with a transparent center to be applied to the thumbnail (this is the only reason you'd need to support the overlay in Cropper, instead of plugins: for the frame to specify the proportions of the thumbnail)

3) keep the window on-screen (snap to the monitor edge and don't go past)

3.a) drag holding shift to snap to the edges of other windows on screen (yeah, that's harder, I know ;) )

i love cropper and recommend it often, i think a "timer" feature would be cool for taking screenshots when you would like the cursor included (and right click context menus etc). what do you think?

Seems that you're not capturing partially transparent (aka: alpha blended) windows?

Assuming that you're using BitBlt, you need to change the last parameter from SRCCOPY to SRCCOPY | CAPTUREBLT ... where CAPTUREBLT = 1073741824

You are right Joel. I never even thought about that. Thanks for bringing it up.

OK lets start off with some cool tools,

i unashamedly tell you that almost all of these tools came from the 10 ...

I need to take a screen shot of a program with the alternate menu up and highlighted. Is there a way to do this in Cropper. Thanks in advance.

How could I capture layered/transparent windows?

Hi, Is it possible to take a full screen shot with copper ?

The next version will have a fullscreen option along with other options for taking screenshots.

Layered windows are more difficult. Since Cropper is also a lyered window, If I just add the bit to capture layered windows, the Cropper form also shows in the screenshot.

I am trying to work out a good solution. Making the form invisible at the time of a capture works, but it is a little annoying for it to blink off and on for every capture.

What about combining this with OpenSMTP to provide a means of sending your capture to someone? This would be a great team tool if done that way.

Really brilliant program!!! Cheer!!!! Small note:: can't the files image generated by version 1.6, be any more to download on http://imageshack.us/, why? Thank you still.

Your file type "Png" is not allowed. It's the same whit Jepg....

niobium, I'm not sure what you mean. Image shack accepts both png and jpeg images according to the file type list on the main page.

I am such a big fan of Cropper!  The latest release has exposed a plugin interface that allows developers...

Newb question: how/where do you install output plug-in?

Suggestion for future release: Add a context menu item for "Open Cropper Output Folder". To save screen real estate, I don't have my output folder on the desktop. This would be a nice feature so that I could quickly get to that folder, though.

Good idea.

By now you may have heard about Cropper by Brian Scott (I've even mentioned it before).  It's a...

Każdy programista podczas codziennej pracy używa jakichś narzędzi. Ja polecam właśnie te...

I saw a few comments regarding capturing transparent windows... any progress on getting this working?

Thanks

There is a problem with allowing Cropper in its current form to capture transparent windows. Cropper itself is transparent and shows up in the capture. With more people using it, Cropper is expanding beyond my original purpose for creating it. I do want to keep expanding it for those other ways of using it though.

I am working on different ways to get captures, most of which would allow capturing transparent forms.

Using the current form, the only way to do it is to blink the form off during the capture. It gets a little annoying and does not look very good. I could add it as an option if users really wanted it.

The additional capture methods will include more traditional methods such as Alt-PrtScr like ability with the ease of use of Cropper. Those would include the ability to capture transparent forms.

I'm looking through the Windows API documentation for a way to capture all of the desktop, including transparent forms, while excluding the current form from. If someone knows how, drop me a note.

Thanks for the update...

I am confident many would [gratefully] accept any such minor side effects such as flicker to capture all windows as seen including transparents. With that said, <-- implores for a switch to "capture ghosts and what-not" ;)

knuckle-touch

Great piece of kit!

cursor and rollover effects capture would be a nice touch.
"Save As" would be another nice option as it would save me from having to keep track of the captures when renaming them.
Thumbnail crop, perhaps? But i guess I can do a another grab for it.

Thanks all the same.

Hi Soup,

The save As type of functionality is something in the works. I'm not sure what you mean by "rollover effects capture" or "thumbnail crop". Could you elaborate?

There is now a new version of the plugin available from Scott Isaacs that will work with version 1.6...

If you can add support to draw circles on the captured images (like SnagIt), it would be a killer.

In reference to requests made by Scott Isaacs for improvements to the initial release of my Cropper plug-in...

Recently, I jumped back into developing some plugins for Brian's Cropper screenshot tool.&amp;nbsp; For a...

Since the advent of .NET, everyone is talking about XCOPY deployment. XCOPY deployment means that the applications are distributabe without a setup routine. Just copy the file(s) where you want them and that's it. We are being told that this is much easier and saver than the previous non-.NET approaches...

Cropper is a screen capture utility written in C# on the Microsoft .Net platform. It makes it fast and easy to grab parts of your screen. [via]...

If you are ever looking for a quick cut-n-paste tool; check out Cropper in C#.&amp;nbsp; I've used it quite...

Aqui v&#227;o os primeiros cinco aplicativos de uma lista longa...
Notepad2 - Alguns recursos a mais do que...

awsome cant be installed with .net 2.0 kudos

Brian- this is a great utility; I'd love to see how you did this. Your release notes say the source is included, but I don't see it in the installer version. Can you post it for us? Or email me directly if you prefer. Thanks again for your work!
-Jack
rkaiser@gmail.com

P.S. To comment on the above post, I had no problems installing this with .NET 2.0.

Cute tool. What about using external language files, so it can be translated in various languages?

Recently, I jumped back into developing some plugins for Brian's Cropper screenshot tool.&amp;nbsp; For a...

I'd like to have an improvement on this shiny software: i always need to draw small red arrows and rectangles to point things in my screenshots, so i rely upon WisePixel's HandySnap previous beta (and free ^_^) version.
Can anyone please develop an open-source plugin for adding arrows and rectangles?

this is the best screenshot utility I've ever used in the Windows environment!

Sometimes the best way to tell someone something is to show them. I use print screen several times throughout...

I love the improvements since 1.6 (esp. the "Browse" menu option). Now I have another suggestion.

I have Cropper in my Startup folder. Everytime it starts, I set it to "Always on Top", then I hide it.

Can the current setting for "on top" and "hidden" also be stored in the config and set when loaded?

You would save me 4 whole clicks per morning, making me a much more productive person. :)

Thanks Scott. The next version already has more options and they are saved in the config, including "Always on Top". I'll add hidden in there also. Hmmm... maybe an always start option too.

Nice product. It may have a problem. I used it to capture screen portions about 400x500 in size to the clipboard then paste them into MS Publisher (MS Office 2000 running on Win2K with all updates installed).
Publisher kept crashing and at one point crashed everytime I attempted the paste. I finally cured this by first pasting into MS Paint, then doing Edit Copy in Paint before pasting into Publisher.

Sometimes the best way to tell someone something is to show them. I use print screen several times throughout...

Sometimes the best way to tell someone something is to show them. I use print screen several times throughout...

Hi!

I started my post with few kind words like "YESSS! Excellent piece of s...!", but eventually ended up with little bit more lines.

Here's my $0.02



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> 5) Portable Cropper.... /../ cropper.portable /../

What about "Un/make portable" button :) (and possibly 'requires restart' note)

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May be a direct link to readme.htm in start menu
and in context menu too ["long help", "html help"... I don't know]

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> 7) S key captures.

Add note about "S" key to minihelp/html-help.

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One good hint to other users who activate capture with double click.

Most of us does not have "regular" 3 button mouse anymore. Instead of this we have 2 button with wheel-mouse. And you can dblclk with mouse wheel too - two

"wheel-clicks" equals dblclk, at least in this program [but not all programs do, some have special meaning for "one wheel click"].

Why I'm telling this is that double clicking with mouse wheel does not cause *ACCIDENTIAL* start of draging the capture box, which can happen with regular mouse clicks if cursor moves between two clicks (personally I managed to do it A LOT while testing Croppers abilities ;) Maybe it helps someone.

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This also brings me to another question: what about locking capture box?
* Resize lock
* Drag lock
* Both locks

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I notice that prompt box "got stuck" under capture box when "Always on top" was enabled.
Of course enter/esc resolves the "problem", but some "not so talented" users may freak out :D

It can be really bad when opacity is set to 90%. I tested it on my LCD monitor. If I'm not looking exactly across to my LCD (or sun is too bright), I may not have even a hunch about prompt box' existence.



BUT there is one issue more with prompt - it does not show up if capture box is hidden. So it stays open at the background.

And because it stayes open I thought that I could deliberately cause another issue.

And I did something bad - I hold "Prnt Scr" down for approx. 3 seconds to simulate "bad keyboard".

So what happened was that I managed to generate ~ 50 keystrokes ... resulting to ~800MB memory usage. Oh my good, I heard my computer swapping :)

I'm bad, aren't I? :D

So there are 2 ways to overcome this.

1) save image fist to temp file, release memory and wait after prompt to rename it later.
2) do not capture before previous image is saved.

Both ways have good and bad sides.


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Ability to crop "Prnt Scrn" captures (maybe even to different filename) according to capture box position, even if it is not visible.
This would give us that "Prnt Scrn" works as global hot key to "cropped capture" function.
It is useful when taking many-many captures form area that does not move [i.e. preview window in graphics programs]

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What about adding optional feature to show capture box coordinates while dragging or holding mouse down?
From time to time it can be helpful.

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I found one annoyance - {date} template.

{date} is formatted in "English way" (mm/dd/yyyy) which I have always found very annoying (and for very good reason.)

Sometimes German date is better (dd/mm/yyyy) sometimes not, but I definitely prefer Japanese date format (yyyy/mm/dd).

Why? It's all about filename sorting.

For example if we have file names like "2005-12-30 16-32-50.png" they filenames itself preserve "timeline" when showing files in file manager.


Additional date templates or maybe even separate {year} {month} {day} template ???
Automatic folders names like ...\2006\02\14\... mmm yummy :)

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Note about {increment} template. For some people it can be hard to understand correctly how it works, beacause it "seems" to behave differently under different circumstances.

I.e. if we use "static template" ("my_capture") or "dynamic template" ("my_capture_{date}_{time}") then the first template generates different increments immediately, while latter one generates different increments ONLY if we take more than one captures IN ONE SECOND.


So... in this program "increment" means "file name collision increment", NOT "logical increment".

One thing with "collision increment" is that can get too slow when we have thousands of files with same base name (so program has to scan file system to find next "empty slot").
I have encountered this problem couple of times with Microsoft Office - my temp folder contained thousands of temp-files like "tmp1234.tmp" "tmp1235.tmp" etc etc [I was doing heavy work and Excel was crashing like mad man]
And eventually it got really slow :)


Ability to set "minimum increment width" would be nice (again, for sorting). By this I mean that if "width" equals 2 then, increments goes like this 01, 02, 03, ... 09, 10, 11 .. 99, 100, 101 ... Standard leading-zero implementation.



Just for the record.

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Recently used folder list maybe?
Not always a good thing :)

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Anything else? Yes. If you, Brian, were a girl, I'd kiss you ;)
Cropper really saved me from doing *a lot* of cropping.

Who could be more happified than me? :D


Excellent! 11 out of 10!

Wow, thanks v2ike6udik. That's the kind of testing I wish I had time to do, and the kind of feedback I love. I'll go over all this stuff for the next version.

My company's proxy filter blocks the download site. :(

I added the direct download link if you have trouble with the SnapFiles link. If you can, download from the main link. It helps me track the downloads.

First off let me say that I really like your Cropper tool. I was wondering if you plan to release source code for the latest version it since I'd like to add a couple of quick features that would make it more compatible with the way I work.

1) Implement a global hotkey to restore Cropper instead of having to use the mouse.
2) Sometimes I want to save my print screens sometimes I just want them in the clipboard. It would be nice if Cropper left the image in the clipboard even if he saves it to disk.

Source code or no, thanks again for a great tool,
Richard

Brian,

I love Cropper but I've got one request/question - I often want to take shots of right-click or context menus, but clicking to bring cropper to the front means the menus disappear. Similarly, making Cropper always on top means I can't click to trigger the menu underneath it. Is there a way to have a hotkey both bring cropper to the front and then take a shot? This way I can position my shot, then trigger the menu and then have cropper take the shot.

Thanks for a wonderfully useful tool!

nice tool
but when i capture it and then paste it it give me screen shot for full computer window
where it saves only selected screen capture area in image.

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Really nice tool however I seem to have one problem with it. If I have Cropper save to a BMP format...I can't load the BMP file in Photoshop. In Photoshop I get the message "Could not open C:\Cropper\CropperCapture[2].Bmp" because the file-format module cannot parse the file. I've never had issues with other BMP files...just the ones created with Cropper. Any ideas?

Brian, you so rock! I had to build a user manual and it was taking forever. A mate of mine sent me a link to Cropper and said "here, this'll save some time". I reckon you must've saved me two full days. You're a legend :)

Which version of Photoshop are you using Steve? I am using CS2 and without any problems opening the files from Cropper.

any chance of getting a timer option?
to be able to capture pulldown menu's and right clicks?

Thanks

Brian,

I'm using Version 6.0 of PhotoShop. I realize you may not want to address this issue since this is an older version of PhotoShop, but I would be interested in hearing a solution if you find out one. Thanks for such a good utility!

Feature Request: ability to use 12/24hr dates in the timestamp in the filename. Currently, taking screenshots in the AM aren't sorted correctly with those taken in the PM of the same day... prefer to use a 24hr clock.

As the 2,135,412th read blog on the Internet, I get asked all the time &quot;What are your favorite freeware...

OK, I have another feature request. In the corner of the size labels (top left of crop form), put an X to hide the form. Right-click, search for Hide and click is just too much for me. ;)

You could even go all out and make it customizable in the options to be Hide or Exit.

BTW, I love this tool. I use it nearly everyday.

Can you add an option to the crop and colour invisible area, but to leave it transparent (so when saving to PNG from Alt+PrintScreen, you only get the window, with rounded edges and the outside bits are just transparent in the PNG)?

I had to use Cropper to capture a context (right-click) menu, and it has an option to hook the Print-Screen button. By pulling up my menu, and then pushing Print-Screen, it was putting full-screen screenshots into my Cropper output directory. Not the easiest solution, as you still have to crop them down, but it works.

Also, is there 1.8 source available?

Very nice tool I searched a long time! Thanks!

Is it possible to add an option to exit after esc (not hide)?.

Been using this for awhile now and recommended it to a friend. While showing him the link to the download I realized I was 2 versions back. I really like the improvements, especially the ability to change the default file name. Kudos once again!

Dayve

Hey,

Think there are 3-4 people that have asked if the source code will be available, but there have not been any answers... will it be available or? It says that it is some where around here.... but can't find it...

Great tool btw

best regards
Mikael Syska

Nice tool, Brian! I have featured it on About Graphics Software at: http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/screencapture/p/cropper.htm

Just a big thank you, this is a real timesaver!

Hi Brian,

I need to make a .Net form always on top just like you did for cropper. I have tried several vb snippets but they don't have any effect on .Net forms. Could you be of some assistance?

Thanks,
Isaiah
iky_43@yahoo.com

Dear,

your soft is Amazing!!!!!!
is all about I need!!!

Thankyou so much!!!

Cropper has become one of my 'essential' tools. One feature that I think would take Cropper to the next level is torn edges like SnagIt.

Any chance for built-in GIF support? You don't need to worry about Unisys licensing anymore...

&amp;nbsp;
Nice little app from Brian Scott.&amp;nbsp; Download HERE.&amp;nbsp;Found this on ScottH's site
&amp;nbsp...

As some people have mentioned there are issues with .Net Framework 2.0 but the issue is not that Cropper won't run, it's that the installer/MSI (presumably the bootstrapper) insists that you need version 1.1. It then takes you to the Microsoft download page for version 2.0. Most non-tech people will just get confused and give up at this point.

Also, if the installer can't find 1.1 it doesnt let you install, even though if you have 2.0 Cropper would actually run (it will if you download just the 'binaries' instead, i.e. no-installer)

#re: Cropper in C# - Error with BMP files

i am getting the same error when trying to open the file in photoshop. says file-format module could not parse the file. no clue what the issue is.

Does it works on .Net 2.0 framework?

I love cropper. You've saved me so much time it's incredible. I wish I had found this sooner.

Thanks for this app! I almost started writing it. Snagit was to intense, i wanted something light weight and easy. That did just this!

You Rock.

hey, i like your app.

its neat.

Anyone doing a plugin to auto upload the images to flickr or google drive?

How about recording animations with this thing?

Gif or flash would be excellent :)

Summary If you're going to post code, take the time to post a license so others can use it. I'm talking

Nice little tool. Loved it.

Excellent tool, I use it a lot... a couple of minor bugs I noticed though - if using {prompt} notation in the Output Templates, when you get prompted it will still capture if you hit cancel and if you're running Cropper as Always On Top, then the prompt dialog appears underneath cropper which means you can't click on it (you can still use the keyboard though).

Keep up the good work.

There is a lot to write about this magnificent tool, which saves me quite a lot of time these days, but...

On Tuesday I was one of several presenters at theSan Diego .NET User Group&amp;#39;ssecond annual Toolbox

!! So where can I get the source?  5 people asked about it. !!

Summary OCR (Optical Character Recognition)can really come in handy.For example, I previously wrote about

Any chance you'll be getting the installer to support .Net 2.0? I miss this tool!

Love it! It works nicely, has a small resource footprint, and is ver un-obtrusive to my work flow. Was a bit confused at first how to actually take captures once I had form laid out.

Perhaps a confimation message to let you know that an image was take? Not sure how difficult this would be in C#

When running Cropper on Vista RC2 I get the following

An unhandled exception of type 'System.BadImageFormatException' occurred in Unknown Module.

Additional information: Could not load file or assembly 'Skybound.VisualStyles, Version=1.2.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=f2d73a45b3e75a83' or one of its dependencies. The module was expected to contain an assembly manifest.

-mark

Great Tool. I have some ideas for plugins. Is the source code available for the current release?

Thank you in advance for your time and consideration.

David McElroy

make me the 6th .... where can I find the source?
Thanks for a nifty tool!

Thanks loads - love it.
Would like a 'include cursor' option if poss.
Thanks again,
Mike

Feature request: ability to open the folder where the captures are stored....

Hi,

I had the following feature suggestion:

- user-defined size settings

Often people need to take screenshots in specific sizes, e.g. images for headers, images for blogposts that need to have same width and height.  

It would be nice if people could define their own custom sizes with name-width-height and that these would be available in the right-click menu.

Thx for the great tool anyway!

WHAT'S ALL THIS, THEN? Cropper is a great free screen capture program. It has a cool plugin system which

I have run into a problem with Clipboard as the output destination and copying back and forth from a terminal server sesson to my own local system. For some reason I can't seem to get it to work, but it obviously copies to the clipboard because I can paste it into Paint on the terminal server. I found that I can paste it into Paint, the select all, copy and then I can paste it back on my local machine. Not sure why this is or if I may just be doing something wrong.

Any ideas?

You made a great tool, and I've been happy to use it - lately its broken though - might have been after installing Framework 2. Cropper seems to hang, not refreshing window and no longer able to capture. I cannot cycle colors, and capture window comes up all black.
I am using the binaries with cropper.portable in same directory.
I tried to add prompt and got following error:

See the end of this message for details on invoking
just-in-time (JIT) debugging instead of this dialog box.

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System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
  at Fusion8.Cropper.Core.FileNameTemplate.TryAddTemplatePrompt(ImagePairNames startNames)
  at Fusion8.Cropper.Core.FileNameTemplate.Parse(String extension)
  at Fusion8.Cropper.Core.ImageCapture.ProcessCapturedImage(Image image, Double maxThumbnailSize)
  at Fusion8.Cropper.Core.ImageCapture.Capture(Int32 x, Int32 y, Int32 width, Int32 height, Double maxThumbnailSize)
  at Fusion8.Cropper.Core.ImageCapture.Capture(Int32 x, Int32 y, Int32 width, Int32 height)
  at Fusion8.Cropper.Core.ImageCapture.Capture(Point location, Size size)
  at Fusion8.Cropper.Core.ImageCapture.Capture(Rectangle captureArea)
  at Fusion8.Cropper.TransparentCropForm.TakeScreenShot(ScreenShotBounds bounds)
  at Fusion8.Cropper.TransparentCropForm.OnDoubleClick(EventArgs e)
  at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmMouseUp(Message& m, MouseButtons button, Int32 clicks)
  at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)
  at System.Windows.Forms.ScrollableControl.WndProc(Message& m)
  at System.Windows.Forms.ContainerControl.WndProc(Message& m)
  at System.Windows.Forms.Form.WndProc(Message& m)
  at Fusion8.Cropper.CropForm.WndProc(Message& m)
  at System.Windows.Forms.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m)
  at System.Windows.Forms.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m)
  at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)


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   Assembly Version: 1.0.5000.0
   Win32 Version: 1.1.4322.573
   CodeBase: file:///c:/windows/assembly/gac/accessibility/1.0.5000.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/accessibility.dll
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************** JIT Debugging **************
To enable just in time (JIT) debugging, the config file for this
application or machine (machine.config) must have the
jitDebugging value set in the system.windows.forms section.
The application must also be compiled with debugging
enabled.

For example:

<configuration>
   <system.windows.forms jitDebugging="true" />
</configuration>

When JIT debugging is enabled, any unhandled exception
will be sent to the JIT debugger registered on the machine
rather than being handled by this dialog.

Great work.  I would like to second Mike G's suggestion regarding the mouse cursor.  You could possibly use the ideas at http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/DesktopCaptureWithMouse.asp to achieve this.  Alternatively you could release the source code for version 1.8 so that someone else could add it.

Thanks for all the time you have spent on creating this cool utility.  It is much appreciated.

Hi,

I'm trying to install last release of Cropper togheter with Net Framework 3.
But Cropper seems not to detect this version of .Net Framework. So, I can't install it.

Is it a bug ?

Thank you !

Just what I was looking for, a lightweight, unobtrusive tool to quickly grab partial screenshots.  Very nice work and very nice interface - it just makes sense.

Cropper is a tool that can be used to get print screens more easily. http://blogs.geekdojo.net/brian/articles/Cropper.asp

Hello
I can't paste to OpenOffice.org if i choose Output – Clipboard in Cropper. Paste icon is not active (or right click – no Paste option is seen) in OOo. In MS Word it works fine. I have Win XP SP2 installed, Cropper 1.8 binaries. Is that problem of OOo or of Cropper?
Alt+PrintScreen works fine both Ooo Writer (if „Use Cropper to save Print Screen images“ is unchecked in Options/Capturing) and Word.
Sorry for my english.

Cool tool.  Suggestion:  When output clipboard the thumbnail does not work.  Need to be able to send to clipboard in a compress format kind of like how you do the .jpg's.

nice one, wanted to write similar tool but first googled for it and found this one :) one idea - add the possibility to use the "send to" context menu as a target, not only the disk, i would really really like to be able to select a skype user directly after taking a screenshot :)

BJ, email me through the contact link on the blog if you want to test an x64 version for me.

Axel,

Thanks for the feedback. The original avi plug-in I created was more a proof of concept to show how to start and stop long running captures. It was not very performant and I did not have the time to update it.

There is an AVI plug-in available at the Cropper Plug-ins CodePlex site http://www.codeplex.com/cropperplugins.

Has anyone tried running this in Linux under Mono?

i have a plugin request: drawing shapes on the capture image.

many times when i take a shot i want to highlight some area, usually i do so by opening the captured image with (e.g.) PhotoShop and drawing circles/rectangles/arrow on the image.

as this procedure is tedious i wonder if a plugin can be made to Cropper to draw those shapes in Cropper somehow?  

Cropper is a screen capture utility written in C# on the Microsoft .Net platform. It makes it fast and easy to grab parts of your screen. Use it to easily crop out sections of vector graphic files such as Fireworks without having to flatten the files or open in a new editor. Use it to easily capture parts of a web site, including text and images. It's also great for writing documentation that needs images of your application or web site.
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When output format is set to animated gif, is there a way to keep the cropper windows on top while I am moving from window to window or from application to application? When I am done screenshotting, i have to minimize all my windows untill find cropper hiding underneath. Thanks

I need to good freeware utility which can do the usual kinds of screen capture (window, region, full-screen, freehand) and more importantly, be capable of capturing scrolling web pages into a single image (or series of images).

Please try to include scrolling-web-page-capture facility in a future version of Cropper.

Keep up the good work!
~Vivek.

I was wondering if there is a version which does not require .NET -- is there?

Here is a screen-capture tool that I have been using for a year that works great. No more inefficient-shoddy PrtScn captures that are low image quality and that you have to probably have to edit.&quot;Cropper is a screen capture utility...

great. what else can I say? a tool that when it's needed, it's perfect for the job.
thanks

Hey Scott-

Great tool.  I have used it for years without a problem, but I have recently made the switch to an x64 Vista OS, and Cropper continually crashes.

Any thoughts?
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Fault bucket 256435, type 4
Event Name: APPCRASH
Response: None
Cab Id: 0

Problem signature:
P1: Cropper.exe
P2: 1.9.1.89
P3: 45be2dde
P4: KERNEL32.dll
P5: 6.0.6000.16386
P6: 4549d328
P7: e0434f4d
P8: 00000000000233ac
P9:
P10:

Attached files:
C:\Users\XXX\AppData\Local\Temp\WERE4B0.tmp.version.txt

These files may be available here:
C:\Users\XXXX\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\WER\ReportArchive\Report3cfec9ff

Firstly, cudos, Cropper is a superb tool - I use it all the time, thanks very much!
One little request - as I have Cropper load on startup (on XP Pro) it sits in the tray all day long but doesn't end clean when you shutdown XP, I always get the famous "End Now" prompt.
Any way to get it to obey the shutdown and end processes without being manually killed?

Love this tool.  Recommend it all the time.  Any plans to make it PortableApps compliant?

Hey, cropper in C# is a great tool, but why is it that it reacts on the F8 hotkey while MS Visual Studio (C#) itself binds this key to the step-through-code function... Cropper was intended for programmers wasn't it? Okay, I propose to allow the user to set his preferred hotkey manually.

Yes, I found from Reflector that the F8 key is hard-coded - yikes!

One of my colleague ( Prakash Somasundaram ) distributed this link. He use to play with different kinds

nice program, thanks. I needed a solution to the issue of print screen from a dual monitor system and your capture from a persistent form size feature handles that well. I do have a feature request though - would be nice to be able to save some app specific print settings - landscape/portrait, image resize. not a coding task I'd want to have to tackle, but hey it's easy enuf to ask for :)
thanks again, I'll share this program w/coworkers!

cropper is the coolest. thanks a lot. for some legal documentation tasks and technical troubleshooting tasks it would be cool to be able to impose a date-time stamp watermark on the captured image...maybe some pleacement-size options for the watermark. heck...maybe a text watermark option too. thanks for the great tool.

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