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Split "Capture window" behaviour

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Currently, Greenshot has one option of "Capture window" yet it functions in two entirely different ways depending on how you invoke it:
1. Keyboard shortcut. This will simply capture the focused window in its entirety.
2. System Tray menu. This will offer the option of manually selecting an auto-detected area to capture.

This is most evident when attempting to capture a webpage in Google Chrome (or any other web browser, I imagine) while excluding both the Windows areas (Taskbar, System Tray, etc) AND Chrome areas (tabs, extensions, bookmarks, etc).

This should be split so both behaviours can be invoked via both methods, rather than one or the other.

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Ben Hooper February 4, 2015 at 9:26 AM

Hi, Robin.

Is this feature going to be added? It would make my workflow considerably more efficient.

Thanks.

Ben.

Ben Hooper August 14, 2014 at 4:01 PM

Hi, Robin.

I meant that it would be useful to have the ability to invoke both behaviours individually via keyboard shortcut, rather than the system tray.

Is it not possible to invoke the interactive window capture mode via a keyboard shortcut whilst retaining Greenshot's special capture modes?

Thanks.

Ben.

Robin Krom August 14, 2014 at 3:50 PM

Unfortunately it is very hard to capture the focused window if you select the system tray as you actually change the focused window by using the context menu!
In this case we would select the menu, which is most likely not what you want.

You can invoke the area selection capture mode either by enabling the "Use interactive window capture mode" in the settings and you no longer can capture the focused window directly. This has a huge disadvantage, as every window capture is now directly from the screen! Some of the technologies that Greenshot offers, like capturing without "see-through" or capturing windows even if they are partly outside the screen, are no longer activated.

I would advice, if you want to use this "area detection" (interactive window capture mode), you just press PrintScreen and as soon as the selection cursor comes you can press the space key. This will change to the interactive window capture mode, and space again brings you back to the normal region capture.

Best wishes,
Robin

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Created July 30, 2014 at 10:54 PM
Updated February 4, 2015 at 9:26 AM