File	Date	Author	Commit
Gdip.ahk	2011-10-24	Clemens Anhuth	[d0f959] Initial
MyScreenshotter.ahk	2011-11-08	Clemens Anhuth	[8e34e5] Fix cancelling timed desktop screenshot
create_release.cmd	2011-10-25	Clemens Anhuth	[e27eb7] Prepare for first release
readme.txt	2011-11-08	Clemens Anhuth	[0109e2] Added hotkey Win+PrintScreen for desktop screen...
version.txt	2011-10-29	Clemens Anhuth	[68044f] Version to 0.2+

Read Me

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DOCUMENTATION
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CONTENTS
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1. Introduction
2. Disclaimer
3. License
4. Acknowledgements
5. Release notes
6. Taking screenshots
7. Automatically shrink image to selection in MS Paint
8. Settings
9. To Do



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INTRODUCTION
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MyScreenshotter takes screenshots of the active window or the
desktop and optionally directly opens the screenshot in MS Paint
for editing purposes.

The advantages over similar tools:

- Simple, no clutter.
- No registry changes required.
- No installation required.
- Works portable; can be run from USB sticks, etc. without
  installation.



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Disclaimer
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This software is provided as is without any guarantees for
anything, use at your own risk.



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License
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Public domain. Do whatever you like with it.



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Acknowledgements
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This project uses AutoHotkey_L:

 http://www.autohotkey.net/~Lexikos/AutoHotkey_L
 http://www.autohotkey.com

This project uses the Gdip standard library v1.45 by tic
(Tariq Porter) 07/09/11:

 http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/topic32238.html


 
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RELEASE NOTES
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v0.3
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* Create settings folder in lowercase.

* Added: Hotkey Win+PrintScreen for taking desktop screenshot.

* Added: Tray menu entry "Hold Shift as well to open screenshot in
  MS Paint".

* Fixed: Reading settings was broken and kept reverting to the
  default (desktop folder).



v0.2
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* Added: Icons for tray tips.

* Added: Check if writing screenshot failed; tray tip if
  fail.

* Added: Timed screenshot, see
    <tray icon context menu>
    "Take timed desktop screenshot..."

* Changed: Remove product version number from tooltip to avoid that
  a new version number causes the tray icon to be hidden by Windows
  (after configuring the previous version to be always shown).



v0.1
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* Key combination Contrl+Shift+r: Reload script convenience for
  development.



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Taking screenshots
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For desktop screenshots press and hold Win+middle mouse button.

For active window screenshots press and hold Win+Control+middle
mouse button.

Hold Shift key in addition to open the screenshot directly in MS
Paint.

Screenshots are stored in the configured directory. Right click on
tray icon to change.



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Automatically shrink image to selection in MS Paint
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When MyScreenshotter is running Control+c and Control+x will
automatically resize the current image to fit the selection in MS
Paint.

The purpose of this is that very often one wants to keep on working
with the selection only.

This cuts down the workflow to extract a snippet from a screenshot
from...

 1. Make selection.
 2. Copy/cut to clipboard (Shift+Control+c or Shift+Control+x).
 3. Open resize dialog (Control+e).
 4. Type "1<Tab>1<Return>" to resize image to 1x1.
 5. Paste clipboard.

 ...down to...

 1. Make selection.
 2. Copy/cut to clipboard (Control+c or Control+x).
 (After this MyScreenshotter will do the resizing and pasting
 automatically.)

This automatic operation can be undone via Control+z (press
multiple times).



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Settings
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To Do
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- Optionally include mouse cursor in screenshots.
- Configurable timed screenshot default time.
- Repeated timed screenshots.