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jodi5549 · Joined: 19 Jan 2009 Posts: 134 Location: Tennessee

Does any one have any advise on a screen capture program for puppy 4.2.1 beside mtpaint that will let you select your own window or margins. I have found one called Xnview on this site that is in zip form and how would I download to my puppy? Any input on this would be surely appreciated.
Thank You,
Jodi

disciple · Posted: Thu 28 May 2009, 04:09 Post subject:

All sorts of things can take screenshots if you just write a little script and set up a shortcut key or menu entry to call them - gimp, something I think called fox shutterbug, xpaint...
I suggest you run petget and install xpaint from the Puppy 2 repository. If it doesn't come with the screenshot menu entry that it used to have, I can upload that for you. It lets you drag a box around the part of the screen you want to capture.
Or you could look through the recent posts... someone posted some new script for screen captures not long ago, although I don't remember exactly what it did. Hopefully it wasn't a certain person with a habit of posting unnecessary bloat to do simple tasks Smile

BTW, do you have the Windows version of Xnview (it requires Wine, and is the best program for viewing photos on most digital cameras), the old Linux one, or the new Xnview MP (which isn't complete enough to be really useful)?

gposil · Posted: Thu 28 May 2009, 04:22 Post subject:

There's already a puppy app called shot you can get from Dingo's site or mine.

http://www.gposil.com/pets/shot-0.1.2.pet

http://puppylinux.medianewsonline.com/pupd/screenshot/shot-0.1.2.pet

You use the Print Screen Key and it asks whether you want full screen or just window... Smile

disciple · Posted: Thu 28 May 2009, 04:26 Post subject: hopefully you don't need this

In case that xpaint package doesn't come with a snapshot menu entry, here it is.
This script saved as /usr/local/bin/xpaintsnapshot.sh

Flash · Posted: Thu 28 May 2009, 09:27 Post subject:

Could you describe in more detail just what it is you want to do? Perhaps there is a way to do it in mtPaint.

gposil · Posted: Thu 28 May 2009, 10:01 Post subject:

jodi5549 maybe i've misunderstood what you want , do you want to capture a window or screen to file or not.

trapster · Joined: 28 Nov 2005 Posts: 1966 Location: Maine, USA

Captura.pup

Website

MU · Posted: Thu 28 May 2009, 12:40 Post subject:

search for "shutterbug" here:
http://wellminded.com/puppy/pupsearch.html

It allows to set a "lasso-frame" on your screen to choose a region to grab.

Mark

jodi5549 · Joined: 19 Jan 2009 Posts: 134 Location: Tennessee

Wow! Thank you everyone for all the good answers. I'm am really enjoying the new pup 4.2.1 w/seamonkey. Just really don't like mtpaint for doing screen shots.
The xnview 1.70.pup from dotpups.de/dotpups to my win desktop and is a zip file at 2.52 Mb and not sure on how to get that installed on the linux machine anyway.
Thank you MU, I found the link to shutterbug at puppylover.netsons.org and it is as a pet, I have no problem with downloading those on the linux system and looks like what I'm looking for especially the lasso-frame part and as long as I can send the copies through an email or such, also looks fairly small.
Thank you also to disciple, never done any coding yet, too new w/puppy. I don't know where to begin or where to go to do that. Can you tell me where I go and do I put everything that you got in both the boxes, is there a way to copy and paste in puppy?

disciple · Posted: Fri 29 May 2009, 02:00 Post subject:

Sylvander · Posted: Fri 29 May 2009, 04:29 Post subject:

Is it possible to change the default save location in CAPTURA?

And if so how?

Doesn't seem to be able to capture:
The cursor...
Open drop-down menus.

trapster · Joined: 28 Nov 2005 Posts: 1966 Location: Maine, USA

@ Sylvander:

Here

Sylvander · Posted: Fri 29 May 2009, 09:15 Post subject:

Unfortunately...
I want to save the jpg files in /00, but don't want to put the CAPTURA binary file in there, because I reserve that folder for temporary storage only.
Ideally I'd like it to be empty most of the time, so that anything in there is noticed immediately, and easy to find, being at the top of the folder hierarchy.

jodi5549 · Joined: 19 Jan 2009 Posts: 134 Location: Tennessee

Well downloaded Shutterbug, but unfortunately won't come up when clicked on. It was showing after download of missing library file libfox01.6 so.O. How will I download that please?

trapster · Joined: 28 Nov 2005 Posts: 1966 Location: Maine, USA

@ Sylvander

Just create a link every time you run Captura

Try: