Looking Forward to Window Clippings 2.0: Pop-ups

That’s right: I’m working on Window Clippings 2.0. This is another big release with many new features, much of which has been driven by user requests. I will be highlighting some of the new features over the next few weeks to give you an idea of what you can expect from version 2.0.

Take a look at the following image:

You guessed it, Window Clippings 2.0 supports pop-ups. You can now interact with the selected window to produce some effect, such as displaying a tool-tip or menu. Window Clippings will automatically determine the region including the popup windows and include it all in the final image. Now have a look at the same image in Photoshop:

If you look closely you’ll notice that even the alpha blending from the menu’s shadow has been captured. It may seem like a small thing but it’s the sort of thing that makes a screenshot look great!

Stay tuned for more highlights from the upcoming Window Clippings 2.0!

 

Version 1.5 is the current release and you can download it here.


© 2007 Kenny Kerr

Published Tuesday, March 27, 2007 12:56 AM by KennyKerr
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# re: Looking Forward to Window Clippings 2.0: Pop-ups

Thursday, March 29, 2007 2:55 AM by Tanveer Badar

Kenny, I encountered one problem with Windows Clippings 1.5. When you try to take snap-shot of a maximized window, double-click does not work except on the task bar. If the window is not maximized, it works as usual.

# re: Looking Forward to Window Clippings 2.0: Pop-ups

Thursday, March 29, 2007 10:04 AM by KennyKerr

Tanveer: Maximized windows are not supported by Windows Clippings 1.5 but they are supported by 2.0.

# re: Looking Forward to Window Clippings 2.0: Pop-ups

Thursday, March 29, 2007 4:14 PM by Marc Brooks

Any chance we could gets some support for saving to and FTP or WebDAV site.  That would make this perfect for blog stuff... even a simple plug-in setup so I could write my own would rock.

# re: Looking Forward to Window Clippings 2.0: Pop-ups

Thursday, March 29, 2007 4:24 PM by KennyKerr

Marc: your wish is my command   :)

Seriously, Window Clippings 2.0 supports add-ins so you can write/obtain an add-in to do virtually anything you like with a window clipping. I’ll talk more about this soon.

# re: Looking Forward to Window Clippings 2.0: Pop-ups

Friday, March 30, 2007 2:35 AM by Tanveer Badar

Really nice to hear that :).

Its just like a bug report to Microsoft. You ask for some feature and they say, sorry, this is by design, or bluntly "A won't fix".

Just kidding, keep up the good work.

# re: Looking Forward to Window Clippings 2.0: Pop-ups

Friday, March 30, 2007 10:28 AM by Glenn

Any chance 2.0 might support capturing a arbitrarily selected region of the screen instead of capturing by window?

# re: Looking Forward to Window Clippings 2.0: Pop-ups

Friday, March 30, 2007 10:44 AM by KennyKerr

Glenn: That is supported. You can select a rectangular region, moving and resizing the selection, much like you can in paint programs thus allowing you to create an imagine without ever selecting a window. More on that soon.

# re: Looking Forward to Window Clippings 2.0: Pop-ups

Friday, March 30, 2007 3:36 PM by Leo Davidson

That looks great, Ken!

I've been working on a document with lots of screenshots lately and when there's a menu involved I've captured the main window with WC (to get the transparency and shadow) and then grabbed the full screen with the menu visible to paste the menu part in with Photoshop. The WC2.0 features will save a lot of time and the menu shadow is a great bonus. I'm looking forward to it!

Keep up the great work.

# Looking Forward to Window Clippings 2.0: Storage

Wednesday, May 30, 2007 10:36 AM by Kenny Kerr

Update: Version 2.0 is now available! Download it now from www.windowclippings.com . Scott Hanselman