Window Clippings and Multiple Monitors

A few users reported problems with Window Clippings in a multiple-monitor configuration on Windows XP. It worked fine on Windows Vista (my only multi-monitor computer) but I had no way of testing Windows XP outside of a virtual machine and unfortunately I haven’t found multi-monitor video drivers for any of the main virtualization platforms.

Anyway, last night I reinstalled my main computer, dual-booting Windows XP x86 and Windows Vista x64 and was able to verify the problem on Windows XP - and it is now fixed.

To get the latest build simply select “Check for Updates” from the Window Clippings context menu. If you are a new user simply download the latest version of Window Clippings 1.5.

© 2007 Kenny Kerr 

7 Comments

  • Hi again Kenny,

    Thought I'd let you know that I got Window Clippings to capture windows with their alpha channels, after finding it didn't work before.

    The secret is to right-click away from the window when you go for the context menu (to Save To Disk).

    I guess the alpha-blended menu fade-out is causing a problem? If the menu fades out somewhere else then the alpha channel is captured. I know that you're already looking at the menu fade-out issue for another reason but I thought I'd let you know that fixing that should also fix the alpha channel problem, and there's a workaround for the time being.

    All the best,
    Leo

  • Leo: thanks for the info!

    Yes, that would do it. Window Clippings discards the alpha channel as soon as there is any animation in the window during the capture process. The menu fade would count as animation. Another workaround that most people use is to simply configure the “Default Actions” in the General tab of the Options window and then simply double click the selection instead of using the menu. Double clicking will perform all default actions that you selected and no menu needs to be shown.

    I will hopefully have a fix in for the next update. Thanks for your continued patience.

  • I love your tool. One issue though, is that it does not work well with other DPI settings than 96.

  • Thomas Olsson: Thanks for the feedback. This is now fixed. Check here for details:
    http://weblogs.asp.net/kennykerr/archive/2007/02/05/window-clippings-is-now-dpi-aware.aspx

  • Very cool tool!, Congrats!!... on my XP PRO laptop this works great, however, on my three-monitor-setup at the office, it just takes a snapshot of all the (three) screens. I saw that you fixed this on XP, hopefully you'll find a way to solve it just as easy for 2003.

    Thanks :)

  • Geo: thanks for the feedback. Can you elaborate on the problem you’re experiencing? I assume you mean that it doesn’t work correctly on Windows Server 2003 with 3 monitors attached. Is that correct?

  • Leo: Build 1.5.15 fixes the bug you mentioned related to the context menu fading out and being partially included in the resulting image.

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