Shell context menu to Upload file

ZScreen 3 has the capability to support uploading a file to the active image/file/text hosting service by right clicking the file in Windows Explorer and hitting “Upload via ZScreen…”

This is possible using ZScreenCLI – ZScreen Command Line Interface which supports Crop Shot and Selected Window so far. By implementing Clipboard Upload support in ZScreenCLI such feature for Windows Explorer Shell Right Click menu is possible.

ZScreen joins Twitter

All the micro-blogging can now happen in https://twitter.com/ZScreen

MindTouch Integration

It has come to our attention that the nice folks at http://www.techsurance.com/Screen_Capture have integrated MindTouch services into ZScreen. Initial impression on the integrated code was very satisfactory.

Following the major release of ZScreen 2.15, the following features are planned for the trunk of ZScreen:

• 2.16 kl.am URL Shorterner
• 2.17 is.gd URL Shorterner
• 2.18 MindTouch Integration
• 2.19 TwicPic Image Uploader

Engineering Root folder customization

ZScreen root folder is the main folder that provides room for Images, Text, Settings, Cache and Temp folders.

Initialization sequence

Soon after ZScreen is loaded, the following order is the loading sequence. Program.cs:

1. Initializes DefaultRootAppFolder path to be Path.Combine(Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.Personal), Application.ProductName);
2. Accesses XMLSettings.Read().
1. The XMLSettingsFile property initializes the sub-folder paths inside Root folder.
2. The location of the Root folder is set here inside InitializeDefaultFolderPaths().
1. If there is a ZScreen folder located in the same directory as the ZScreen.exe Root folder will be this folder
2. Otherwise ZScreen folder will be the DefaultRootAppFolder
3. Finally it creates the Settings directory if it doesn’t exist based on the Root folder.
3. Loads ZScreen GUI. ZScreen calls ConfigureDirs() which creates subfolders inside the DefaultRootAppFolder

Improved Portable Configuration detection

Dynamic Region Border and Ruler

Dynamic Crosshair used within a Dynamic Region Border

Dynamic Crosshair used within a Dynamic Region Border with a Ruler

Dynamic Crosshair

Once enabled from Capture tab, dynamic crosshair will increase the visibility of the crosshair by animation.

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History Items can now support text files

Extended support for showing text file / clipboard text uploads to be displayed in History. The pictureBox preview will switch to a textBox and preview the text.

Tooltips in History

 

Tooltips will now show the history item statistics.

Actions toolbar

ZScreen brings another user interface to the next release of the program where you can choose to have a Quick Actions toolbar.

This is similar to the shareware program FSCapture.

History Manager

The new History Manager can save the list of screenshots in History to a History.xml. This will be automatically retrieved upon the next load of ZScreen.

The History.xml is saved in ZScreen\Settings\History.xml and the content looks like:

Maximum number of History items are limited to 50 by default.

Selective Check Updates

Another minor enhancement we have been working on is the Selective Updates method.

Users will be able to select whether they prefer the installer or the single executable file.

Revamped Updated Checker

An update we have been working on that will be in the future versions of ZScreen: