ScreenToGif - screen recording and edition

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Re: Screen To Gif

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Nickesm wrote: I have a little dilemma: I want a portable app, but I need to save some data to make the life of the user a little bit easier. How can I do this?
I'm using the "Settings manager" because it's way easier to save and get data from. I don't like the idea of carrying a .ini file around. :(
I think it's not that hard. To save settings portably, just serialize them to a format such as XML or JSON and write them to a suitable file manually.
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Re: Screen To Gif

#17 Post by guinness »

Oh can we have a XML and JSON debate?

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Re: Screen To Gif

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guinness wrote:Oh can we have a XML and JSON debate?
Umm? I mentioned both XML and JSON on my own, implying that I consider they are both okay. We're probably not going to get a very heated debate out of this topic...

@Nickesm: Guinness is referring to our recent SVN vs. Git debate.
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Re: Screen To Gif

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SYSTEM wrote:Umm? I mentioned both XML and JSON on my own, implying that I consider they are both okay. We're probably not going to get a very heated debate out of this topic...
I was only joking around SYSTEM.

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Re: Screen To Gif

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ScreenToGif 2015 Preview 10 available
http://screentogif.codeplex.com/releases/view/619800

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Re: Screen To Gif

#21 Post by I am Baas »

ScreenToGif is at Preview 14 (March 25, 2016)

http://screentogif.codeplex.com/releases/view/620663

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Re: Screen To Gif

#22 Post by I am Baas »

ScreenToGif 2 (May 22, 2016)
• Send feedback tool.
• Added localizations.
♦ Fixed: Memory leak while recording.
♦ Fixed: Delay value for imported gifs.
♦ Fixed: New lines for the dialogs.
♦ Fixed: When closing the Editor, the Encoder should close too, if there's nothing being encoded.
♦ Fixed: Visual glitches.
http://screentogif.codeplex.com/releases/view/621383

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Re: Screen To Gif

#23 Post by I am Baas »

Tested Screen To Gif v2.0: Not Portable

user.config
in AppData\Local\Nicke_Manarin\ScreenToGif_2.exe_Url_ha55p5wkbivjqr3w2xnuomr4h2bqj0py\2.0.0.0

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Re: Screen To Gif

#24 Post by __philippe »

ScreenToGif 2.1 released as of 01-AUG-2016

V2.1 RELEASE NOTES

What's new?

• Progress indicator overlay.
• Asynchronous recording (optional).
• New localizations: Arabic, Italian and Japanese.
• Multiple images import enabled.
• Option to change the recording cache location.
• New "Save as" panel.
• The app will remember the latest used destination folder and filename.
• Increase or decrease filename number.
• FFmpeg initial support.

Bug fixes:

♦ Snap to window on Windows 10.
♦ Encoding bug with a low quantity of unchanged pixels.
♦ Tab-index order of the bottom controls on the screen recorder.
♦ Frame selection using the keyboard on the editor.
♦ Fit to image.
♦ When deleting frames, the focus should stay on the frame list.
♦ Send feedback.
♦ Project import bug that prevented importing from a zip file.
♦ Gif import bug when the gif had only 1 frame.
♦ Captured images were saved incorrectly with the extension "bmp" instead of "png".

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Re: Screen To Gif

#25 Post by shnbwmn »

I am Baas wrote:Tested Screen To Gif v2.0: Not Portable

user.config
in AppData\Local\Nicke_Manarin\ScreenToGif_2.exe_Url_ha55p5wkbivjqr3w2xnuomr4h2bqj0py\2.0.0.0
Same for v2.1

Also:

\AppData\Local\Temp\ScreenToGif\Recording (Recordings/frames)

Logs:

\AppData\Local\Microsoft\CLR_v4.0_32\UsageLogs\ScreenToGif 2.1.exe.log
\ScreenToGif\Logs\log_4_8_2016.txt

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Re: Screen To Gif

#26 Post by webfork »

The presence of some edition tools in GIF recording are very exciting. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like the author is going to change his mind:

https://screentogif.codeplex.com/workitem/64

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Re: Screen To Gif 2.3 - portable

#27 Post by smaragdus »

Screen To Gif at version 2.3, changes:

Most important- True portable mode is now possible. Head over Options > Temporary files and create a local Settings.xaml file to enable the portability.
What's new?

• UI overhaul based on usability tests with users. This reflects to the recorders, the editor and other windows.
• True portable mode is now possible. Head over Options > Temporary files and create a local Settings.xaml file to enable the portability.
• New ActionStack (Ctrl+Z, Ctrl+Y, etc), now it will eat less of your disk space.
• Option to change the theme colors of the Recorder UI.
• Option to show the total values of the Progress feature.
• Added a Transition option to fade to a specific color.
• Added a Statistics tab with some info about the current recording.
• Ukrainian translation added.
Experimental features

• Full screen recording is now possible. Use carefully, it's not polished yet.
• There's a new encoder called "ScreenToGif", great for recordings with less than 256 colors, but it's slower.
Bug fixes:

♦ The notorious bug with multi DPI set of screens. Finally.
♦ A lot of bugs related to the ActionStack (Ctrl+Z, Ctrl+Y, etc)
♦ A recording bug that was causing an error while saving the file.
♦ Overwriten files had a wrong filesize.
♦ After importing a gif, it was impossible to save as video.
Known bugs:

♠ OutOfMemory exception when importing giant videos.
♠ A small bug causes a crash when you select the "ScreenToGif" encoder, close the app and open the editor again. To void this bug, go to Options > Temporary files and clear your settings. As a better solution, you can simply find the key called "GifEncoder" and type the value "Legacy".
Screen To Gif version 2.3 seems portable- all settings saved in Settings.xaml file- just create a blank Settings.xaml file inside program folder before running ScreenToGif 2.3.exe and in settings set the folder for temporary files, example:

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Please confirm that Screen To Gif version 2.3 is portable.

Note that the downloads from CodePlex and GitHub are different:

Screen To Gif version 2.3 downloaded from CodePlex:
Name: ScreenToGif.2.3.zip
File Size: 519591 Byte(s) (507.41 KB)
MD5: 6c737249a2436c54d5ad65b0ea62215e
SHA1: 560024c7cc029a0df4e78e768727f40693582abc
SHA256: e5affc768a5a12b91281225b7a6a2d741ca97b0ad7f1fe1ab402c7b0773cc23b
CRC32: 9de63a04
VirusTotal analysis - Detection ratio: 0 / 56

Screen To Gif version 2.3 downloaded from GitHub:
Name: ScreenToGif.2.3.zip
File Size: 519750 Byte(s) (507.57 KB)
MD5: 4841a30ebd4c1e76279cf77705592701
SHA1: 707e385fad8bdc2366425baf4f87d8e1da74642a
SHA256: fd8187cd76f499a020c3120f09be01f642a08dcafac50fc61dc822d5e8fb680b
CRC32: e80dcb7e
VirusTotal analysis - Detection ratio: 0 / 56

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Re: Screen To Gif

#28 Post by joby_toss »

Portable yes, but I don't know about stealth...
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Re: Screen To Gif

#29 Post by Nickesm »

Hi @smaragdus, thanks for the status update. Also, both places (GitHub and Codeplex) should have the same binaries now. (I updated the one of them first yesterday, because of a small bug)

Also, you can work with relative paths, like ".\Recordings" instead of a fixed location.

@joby_toss I was not aware of this. I'll keep looking, but it looks like some tracing files automatically created by Net Framework.

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Re: Screen To Gif

#30 Post by webfork »

smaragdus wrote:True portable mode is now possible
Great news -- I check it out and this is a really impressive program. I'm definitely going to run what looks like an amazing editor program through the paces very soon.

Possible entry steps:
  1. Download and extract the zip file to a folder of your choice
  2. Rename ScreenToGif[version].exe to ScreenToGif.exe
  3. Create an empty text file and name it Settings.xaml
  4. Launch ScreenToGif.exe
  5. Click Options - Temporary Files and enter a period "." (no quotes) in the Location Folder blank
(Edit: I swapped steps 4 and 5)

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