Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Snappy- Desktop area snapshot tool (Stupid App)

Download

You can download the installer from here.

Following is the brief instructions manual.

Startup

It creates a system tray icon near your clock in the lower right corner of your screen.

Run-time

There are two ways to start capture,
1.       Right click on the Snappy icon in the system tray and click Capture
2.       Press the hot key, default hot key is Control + Shift + Q
Once the capture is triggered, the screen will get covered by the capture window depending on the Opacity setting (see below for detail). At this point, the user can click on the screen to define the first point of the rectangle and without lifting the mouse button up, the user can drag the mouse to draw a rectangle. This will define the rectangular area for the area to be captured on the screen. Once the mouse button is lifted up, the captured area snapshot will be stored in the clipboard and a new window will be popped up for you to store the captured image.

Configuration

Right click on the Snappy icon in the system tray and click config to open up the configuration dialog. It will open a dialog like this:

By default, it fills up with the default settings; you can change them as per your requirements.

Image Folder

This is the folder where the snapshot images will be saved.

Hot Key

This is a keyboard key combination to start capturing

Capture background Color

This is the color of the main capture window background

Rectangle Color

This is the color of the rectangle when dragging the mouse for capture

Opacity

This is the percent opacity of the capture window

Auto Save

This setting defines if you want your captures to be saved automatically on the disk

Save As

This setting decided the format of the captured image file. Currently, it supports BMP JPG and GIF.