ShareX

I am Baas · **Joined:** Thu Aug 07, 2008 4:51 am **Posts:** 2614

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ShareX is an open-source program that lets you take screenshots, save them in your clipboard, hard disk or upload them to over 20+ different remote locations. ShareX can capture screenshots with different shapes: rounded rectangle, ellipse, triangle, diamond, polygon and also free hand. It can also upload images, text files and all other different file types. It is able to capture screenshots with transparency and shadow. The program also supports drag n drop, and clipboard upload.

http://code.google.com/p/sharex/

Not tested yet. Requires .net

Midas · **Posted:** Thu May 24, 2012 3:34 am

Noticed this, right?

http://code.google.com/p/sharex/wiki/CommandLineArgs wrote:

Portable mode

ShareX.exe -p

or

ShareX.exe -portable

Loads ShareX in portable mode.

webfork · **Posted:** Sun May 27, 2012 10:18 am

I am Baas wrote:

ShareX is an open-source program that lets you take screenshots, save them in your clipboard, hard disk or upload them to over 20+ different remote locations. ShareX can capture screenshots with different shapes: rounded rectangle, ellipse, triangle, diamond, polygon and also free hand. It can also upload images, text files and all other different file types. It is able to capture screenshots with transparency and shadow. The program also supports drag n drop, and clipboard upload.

Thanks -- nice to see an OSS screencap program that supports all those extras. The only other one that comes to mind is the excellent Greenshot (also dotNET), and I don't think it can do that.

webfork · **Posted:** Sat Jun 02, 2012 9:05 am

Just tested this out. Two amazing pieces going on here:

Right out of the box, you can take a screencap and have it posted to an online service. This is immediate, no configuration, ultra-simple. Wow.
Supports a stunning number of image hosting services (20+), including simple FTP to upload right away.

Negative

No image editor so whatever you can change something up (maybe cover up any personal info) before you upload.

Generally speaking, many open source programs are great about interfaces; they always plug into other things by combining other freely available plugins. Not many open source programs are built with this kind of instant-on simplicity. I'm very impressed.

joby_toss · **Posted:** Fri Jun 08, 2012 2:57 pm

I was wondering why these resemble so much:

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Active development has been ceased for ZScreen and ZUploader in favour of ShareX, which is built on the solid foundation of ZUploader: http://code.google.com/p/sharex/ .

webfork · **Posted:** Sat Jun 09, 2012 9:31 am

joby_toss wrote:

I was wondering why these resemble so much:

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Active development has been ceased for ZScreen and ZUploader in favour of ShareX, which is built on the solid foundation of ZUploader: http://code.google.com/p/sharex/ .

That does explain a lot, but it seems some of the goodies from Zscreen (which had a lot of features) were not ported over. I guess that was in the interests of simplicity.

mcored · **Joined:** Wed Jun 13, 2012 1:42 pm **Posts:** 1

webfork wrote:

I guess that was in the interests of simplicity.

Exactly

https://plus.google.com/u/0/11022536139 ... o4drdimEYq

We also do have ShareXmod which is less stricter in terms of porting ZScreen features.
So the negative point you mentioned webfork is in fact taken care of by this mod:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/110079537306164052451/posts

webfork · **Posted:** Wed Jul 18, 2012 5:38 pm

mcored wrote:

webfork wrote:

I guess that was in the interests of simplicity.

Exactly

https://plus.google.com/u/0/11022536139 ... o4drdimEYq

We also do have ShareXmod which is less stricter in terms of porting ZScreen features.
So the negative point you mentioned webfork is in fact taken care of by this mod:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/110079537306164052451/posts

Unfortunately I couldn't seem to configure it the way I wanted (I don't know how to make the gmail component work) and I couldn't figure out how to export images to an editor. It also crashed on its first run on an 64bit Win7 system I tested.

mcored: Happy to work with you on improving the software if you'd like more detailed reports.

freakazoid · **Joined:** Wed Jul 18, 2007 5:45 pm **Posts:** 618

Tested this lightly after webfork mentioned it in the Greenshot thread.

Can extract with Universal Extractor.

Uncompressed filesize is 2.75 MB. Memory usage is around 27 MB RAM.

freakazoid · **Joined:** Wed Jul 18, 2007 5:45 pm **Posts:** 618

Was getting 400 Bad Request errors with Greenshot and came back to ShareX.

ShareX continues to work with Imgur and I'm digging the fact that as soon as the upload to Imgur is completed, the URL is already in my clipboard.

It looks like ShareXMod is the successor to ZScreen.

Also ShareXMod uses Greenshot's image editor. Will test with ShareXMod and come back with feedback.

Update: ShareXmod's uncompressed filesize is 2.5x bigger than ShareX at 7.09 MB and uses a bit more memory as well.

Might stick with ShareX when I don't need to draw anything on the image.

joby_toss · **Posted:** Sat Feb 09, 2013 10:05 am

http://www.reddit.com/r/opensource/comm ... ot_cloned/

webfork · **Posted:** Sat Feb 09, 2013 10:50 am

LOL, just compared Neox screenshots to Sharex:

ShareX:
https://code.google.com/p/sharex/

Neox:
http://screenshots.en.sftcdn.net/en/scr ... 00x361.png
http://www.mydownloadplanet.com/v/neox-screen/

The WOT site has a note added.

Jaex · **Joined:** Tue Mar 19, 2013 10:41 pm **Posts:** 7

webfork wrote:

LOL, just compared Neox screenshots to Sharex:

ShareX:
https://code.google.com/p/sharex/

Neox:
http://screenshots.en.sftcdn.net/en/scr ... 00x361.png
http://www.mydownloadplanet.com/v/neox-screen/

The WOT site has a note added.

Thanks for adding note.

webfork · **Posted:** Fri Apr 05, 2013 6:34 pm

Jaex wrote:

Thanks for adding note.

Sure thing. I'm sorry many on the Reddit thread weren't sympathetic. Please don't let ass clowns like Neox keep you from working on it. There have been at least 10 GIMP look-alikes but these many years later and with all its faults, there's only GIMP. The same thing will happen for ShareX.

Jaex · **Joined:** Tue Mar 19, 2013 10:41 pm **Posts:** 7

webfork wrote:

Jaex wrote:

Thanks for adding note.

Sure thing. I'm sorry many on the Reddit thread weren't sympathetic. Please don't let ass clowns like Neox keep you from working on it. There have been at least 10 GIMP look-alikes but these many years later and with all its faults, there's only GIMP. The same thing will happen for ShareX.

Compared to GIMP biggest problem in ShareX is not much peoples know existence of ShareX because i don't know how can i advertise it. And this is breaking my will to work on project because even when ShareX have far more features than some alternatives still software articles websites keep writing articles about other screenshot capture softwares but don't know about ShareX. Especially in best screenshot capture articles have like 10 different screen capture apps and they never mention about ShareX because they don't know existence of ShareX. Thanks for your answer by the way

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