Cropper
Point and Shoot Screen Captures
Welcome to the new homepage for Cropper at my new development company, Colossus Interactive.
If you have a need for software done right, have a look around.
- Brian Scott, Principal
Cropper is a screen capture utility written in C# which enables you to:
- Quickly capture and crop images of your screen
- Crop out sections of vector graphic files without having to flatten the files or open in a new editor
- Capture parts of a web site, including text and images
- Breeze through creating documentation with images of other applications or websites
The files are saved directly to a folder of your choice, in the format of your choice. The captures can also be output to the clipboard or sent to a printer automatically. You don't have to go through the usual 'Print Screen', open image editor, paste from clipboard, crop, save. Simply double-click the overlay box or press enter, and whatever is visible below the box is captured and exported for you.
The source code is freely available with shared source licensing. The license information is available in each class file.
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Controls
- Arrow Keys: Nudge one pixel in the appropriate direction *
- Alt + Arrow Keys: Resize one pixel in the appropriate direction *
- [ or ]: Expand or contract box from center *
- Alt + [ or ]: Resize the thumbnail indicator one pixel *
- DoubleClick or Enter: Take a screen shot or start/stop a recording plug-in
- Right Click on box: Context menu
* indicates holding Ctrl will increase amount of movement to ten pixels at a time
- Tab: Cycle box colors
- Shift+Tab: Cycle user-defined box sizes
- Esc: Hide the box
- F8: Show the box
[Changes from 1.8.0]
1) .Net Framework 2.0: Cropper is now compiled against the .Net 2.0 Framework.
2) Windows 7 Compatibility: A new option to hide the box during a screenshot is available in the options dialog. The new option allows Cropper to capture other transparent windows and keeps the crop form from showing up in the capture on Aero Glass. This option is automatically enable when running on Windows 7 but may be overridden by the user. The Alt+PrintScreen capturing now properly captures in Windows 7 that have glass in the client area.
3) Predefined Sizes: Frequently used box sizes can now be saved. The sizes are managed in the options dialog under the appearance tab. The sizes may be accessed via the right click menu or by pressing Shift+Tab to cycle through the different sizes.
4) Alt+PrintScreen Captures Stay on Clipboard: The Options dialog Capturing tab allows the user to keep Cropper's Alt+PrintScreen captures on the clipboard.
5) Configurable Plug-In Support: Cropper now has support for integrated plug-in configuration. A new tab named Plug-Ins will present options from plug-ins that support configuration. The new functionality also supports easily persisting a plug-in's settings into Croppers configuration file.
Two included plug-ins support the new configuration options. The clipboard plug-in allows the user to choose the format of the image that is placed on the clipboard and the Jpeg plug-in has a single option for specifying the file extension. More community plug-ins with configuration support are on the way.
6)'Prompt' File Name Template Bug Fixed. A bug that could cause a null reference exception when using the 'Prompt' file name template has been fixed. Another bug in the dialog placement when the crop box was set to always on top has also been corrected.