Grabber -- take a sized screenshot to the clipboard

[powdarrmonkey]

I wrote this last week for some of our A-level students who were fed up of using printscreen and cropping the result for their coursework papers. You're welcome to it.

 

From the desc:

"Grabber is a light-weight Windows application to take a portion of the screen as an image, and place it on the clipboard. It's best used for capturing small sections for tutorials, documentation, and coursework write-ups."

 

Requires .Net 2.0 and comes with no warranty whatsoever. Grabber.

 

 

 

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[PEO]

this is also usefull

 

Free Screen Capture - ScreenHunter - Best Free Screen Capture Software Home

[powdarrmonkey]

The point of writing Grabber was that it doesn't have any bells, which were what irritated the boss.

[p858snake]

Also if they just want the window that is in focus, they can also use [ALT]+[Print Screen]

[powdarrmonkey]

Also if they just want the window that is in focus, they can also use [ALT]+[Print Screen]

 

Nobody's making you use it, you know. I wrote it for work, they liked it, and we published it.

 

It makes the process of getting part of a window one less step (actually, one step) so their coursework screenshots are nice and concise. (You have tried it to see how it works, haven't you?)

[SimpleSi]

@powdarrrmonkey

 

I don't think anyone's criticsing your efforts

 

They are just pointing out alternatives that do a similiar job

 

I install purrint as standard on my machines

 

I'll give yours a go

 

regards

 

Simon

[SimpleSi]

One slight criticism

 

Where's the instructions on how to use it

 

regards

 

Simon

[powdarrmonkey]

Mm, sorry if it sounded harsh. Just doesn't sound much like anyone's read the OP, where I explained the point of it.

 

Anyway, instructions: Click, draw, paste! I'm no more imaginative than that, guess I could put something in the installer readme for it

[ninjabeaver]

I wrote this last week for some of our A-level students who were fed up of using printscreen and cropping the result for their coursework papers. You're welcome to it.

 

From the desc:

"Grabber is a light-weight Windows application to take a portion of the screen as an image, and place it on the clipboard. It's best used for capturing small sections for tutorials, documentation, and coursework write-ups."

 

Requires .Net 2.0 and comes with no warranty whatsoever. Grabber.

 

 

 

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Ohh, this is SWEEET.

 

Cheers powdarrmonkey

[SimpleSi]

Anyway, instructions: Click, draw, paste!

 

Click what

 

Remember - I'm not called SimpleSi for nothing

 

regards

 

Simon

[powdarrmonkey]

Click what

 

Remember - I'm not called SimpleSi for nothing

 

Ah..

 

When you run the app you get a small button ('Capture') - click this, then draw with the crosshairs on the area that you want to capture, and it gets put on the clipboard for you to paste into your favourite application.

[SimpleSi]

Programmers!

 

Never give them a documentation job

 

Ta

Simon

PS I'd stick that in your OP/webpage

[powdarrmonkey]

Programmers!

 

Never give them a documentation job

 

[Nikthomas]

Cool... looks good!

[powdarrmonkey]

Grabber 1.0.2 is available. This update adds a Getting Started dialog on first run, to give the user a quick pointer. Once shown, it does not appear again unless the user's profile is reset.

 

It is per-user. If you want to disable it on an administrative basis, set the following registry value to non-zero:

 

Key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Grabber
Value: NoFirstRun
Type: DWORD

 

This will stop the first run dialog appearing for anybody.

Enjoy

[srochford]

Does what it says on the tin :-)

 

To throw in yet another option, if you have Vista or Windows 7 then "Snipping Tool" does much the same

[INeedAUsername]

many thanks for this one mate - most appreciated