Sunday, June 28, 2009

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

Friday, April 10, 2009

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

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Sunday, April 5, 2009

Dynamic Region Border and Ruler

Dynamic Crosshair used within a Dynamic Region Border

Dynamic Crosshair used within a Dynamic Region Border with a Ruler

Friday, April 3, 2009

Dynamic Crosshair

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

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Tuesday, March 31, 2009

History Items can now support text files

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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

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Tooltips will now show the history item statistics.

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Actions toolbar

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

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This is similar to the shareware program FSCapture.