New Features and bug fixes

1) Per pixel alpha blending. Cropper now uses per pixel alpha blending to render the main window. The size tabs, text and lines have a higher alpha value. This makes the form indicators easier to see at lower opacity levels. The main form area's opacity is still adjustable. On slower machines the crop form may respond slower, in that case you may turn off per pixel alpha blending on the Appearance tab of the options dialog.

Cropper UI

2) More settings persisted. Always on top and hidden settings are now saved between sessions. Cropper will now start minimized the first time it is run on a computer. Thumbnails enabled and the thumbnail indicator showing is also saved between sessions.

3) Print Screen captures. You can now use the Print Screen button to take screen shots with Cropper. The crop form can be minimized. The images will be saved with the same options as regular screen shots. Print Screen will capture and save the entire desktop. Alt + Print Screen will capture the current active window. Ctrl + Alt + Print Screen will capture the region below the mouse. Enable and disable this feature in the options dialog.

Cropper 1.8 Options

4) Transparent window area fill. When using Alt + Print Screen, the transparent areas of the foreground window are filled with the color of your choice. This option will give you clean edges around the non–rectangular areas of a window as in the XP window above and the media player below. The capture is also cropped to the smallest rectangle that will include the visible areas of the form. Enable and disable this feature in the options dialog.

No Fill Capture
No Fill Capture

White Fill Capture
White Fill Capture

Black Fill Capture
Black Fill Capture

5) Portable Cropper. If you run cropper from a thumb drive you can add a file named cropper.portable to the application directory. If Cropper detects this file, it will save the configuration in the application directory and will default to a sub directory named 'Cropper Captures' for the images.

6) New window color. Added a blue window color that is more visible across light and dark backgrounds. I also think it looks nicer. The Tab key now cycles through the three color states.

7) S key captures. The S keys initiates a crop form capture in addition to the Enter key and double clicking.

8) Mouse wheel sizing. The mouse wheel now sizes the form out from the center in addition to the [ and ] keys.

9) The opacity setting is now located in the options dialog. There is also an option to restore it to the menu if you prefer.

10) The menu has been rearranged. Since it has grown it seemed to loose any sense of grouping. I tried to add a more logical layout to it.

11) The Escape key now hides the form instead of closing it.

12) Fixed a bug where the incorrect small icon and application name showed in alternative Alt-Tab applications like TaskSwithXP.

13) Fixed a bug introduced in version 1.7.1 that could cause high CPU usage in some cases.

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