Vista Issue of the Day - Cropper Goes to the Crapper

One of the unfortunate casualties of my upgrade to Vista has been Cropper, the excellent screen capture tool from Brian Scott. It seems that desktop composition wreaks havoc with Cropper's ability to capture screen shots correctly - the Cropper overlay shows up in the captured image, thusly:

 

Setting the Compatibility option on the Cropper executable to "Disable Desktop Composition" fixes the problem, but of course without Glass the screenshots don't look nearly as cool.

I exchanged a couple of emails with Brian, and he's working on a fix. I look forward to an updated version - Cropper has been my screen capture tool of choice.

3 Comments

  • Have you tried "snip" within Vista? I haven't used Cropper before, but Snip has done everything I need so far in Vista.

  • Dean,
    Print Screen is fine for occasional use, but if you're regularly doing lots of cropped screen shots, a more powerful tool is a big time server.

  • Eric,
    I really don't get your point here. It seems you think that Microsoft has the right to break compatibility when it sees fit. And yet when it does so, that's not Vista's fault?

    My purpose with these posts is to point out where problem spots lay when upgrading to Vista. There's now an application that I used to use that I can no longer use.

    Do you think non-technical users will be able to distinguish between "reasonable" breaks and "unreasonable" breaks? Between when the problem lies with Microsoft and the software vendor?

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