clowd/clowd

Simple but powerful screenshot and screen recording tool for Windows.

clowd's Issues

Tool bugs when editor loses focus

If the editor loses mouse capture and does not trigger the MouseUp event, this causes tools to break - thinking they are still operating even though the action should have been aborted. Tools should handle the LostMouseCapture event to account for this.

Images uploaded with Imgur are not viewable within account

Maybe Clowd should create an album to put the images in so they can be deleted from the web interface

Its capturing the mouse cursor even when told not to

Its capturing the mouse cursor even when told not to.

jpg instead of png as default format for save.

Make jpg instead of png as default format for save. Png for screenshots by default is only increasing size of the screenshot for no real gains. If people needs lossless screenshots they can switch to png manually.

Setting object properties via top properties bar does not update command history

Currently the Pointer tool is responsible for updating command history if the object is moved, resized, rotated - etc. This does not work if the properties are modified from the top bar.

Minimized at system startup

Hello,

Would it be possible to get clowd minimized on Windows startup?

Thanks for this software.

Possibility to choose the upload method when taking a screenshot

Do you think it would be possible to choose the upload method when taking a screenshot?
For example via a long press on "Upload" if several methods are specified.

Thanks 😃

The creation of a gif also create a mp4

Hello,

When I use the video recording function, I select GIF.
Then I save it in a folder.
So I find in this folder with my GIF, but also the video in MP4

Clowd 3.4.484

Clowd crash when trying save capture

Clowd crash when trying save capture
Whether directly with the "SAVE" button below the capture or via the editor

Clowd : 3.4.442+b786f0
Windows :

Clicking an object that causes the top bar to expand will inadvertently drag that object up a little

Not sure how to best fix it. Ideas:

• don't shift the canvas when the top bar expands
• don't start drag if the mouse move didn't exceed the drag threshold in screen coordinates

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/233656993578090507/1021062313727492127/2022-09-18_15-16-46.mp4

Function to pre-select areas to keep hidden/obscure while taking a video

Hello

Do you think it would be possible to add a function to pre-select areas to keep hidden/obscure while taking a video?

Thx

Capture directly to upload > cursor is present on the image

If I make a capture, and I click directly to upload it then the cursor is present on the image.
However, the option is not active for me.

Version : 3.4.339
Same problem in 3.4.440

2022-09-24.22-36-10.mp4

Eset NOD32 Say updater file is a virus but im sure it a false positive ??

Hide video controls from video recordings

If recording the whole screen, there's no great place for the clowd recording controls. If we use WGC and SetWindowDisplayAffinity with WDA_EXCLUDEFROMCAPTURE the controls will not be present in the recording.

WGC also captures cursors more correctly. It's downside is that windows renders the yellow border around the display, and there are some types of windows that it will not record.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/winuser/nf-winuser-setwindowdisplayaffinity

Possible undo/redo improvements

The current architecture allows anything to add an entry to the undo history by calling AddCommandStep(). When called, it serializes all of the graphics in a deterministic way to a byte[] array. This is done in many places eagerly, such as a pointer tool mouse-up after dragging, or after adding a new graphic. If the previous state is identical to the current state, it is discarded.

This works very well most of the time and it's very unlikely that a change will be missed and not added to the history.

There are a couple things that can be improved:

1. If we are doing an operation like nudge, or changing object line width, it's possible for many entries to get added to the history as AddCommandStep() is triggered every time something is changed
2. Modifying an image crop causes an history entry for each modification of the crop window which produces some unexpected results as object state may be inconsistent while cropping. A crop operation should only be treated as a single entry.
3. We could store the entire undo/redo history so it is preserved for re-loaded sessions

Design considerations:

• Undo manager ideally would have little/no knowledge about any specific graphic object. (ie. avoid specific checks looking for things like GraphicImage.Editing)

I considered serialising the objects to an XElement and comparing the XML element(s) that have changed between the previous and current entry instead of doing a binary comparison. This would help with (1) but we would need some additional consideration for things like Left, Top, etc. An object Move will update all of the coordinate properties, as well as content bounds. This implies that some knowledge of the specific graphics would be required.

Ability to define global shortcut for “Draw on Screen” feature

Self-explanatory :)

Nudge image at 150% DPI can sometimes nudge it in 2px increments every 2 nudges

Might be caused by anti-blur tweaks. Something isn't quite right with that transform rounding.

Black screen on video recording

i tried everything change format + quality but still outputs came black.

https://i.imgur.com/uJp7kCJ.png

Clicking outside a text box doesn't exit edit mode anymore

Enter the textbox edit mode. Click outside the textbox. Expected: the text gets committed. Actual: what I clicked gets selected, but I'm still editing the textbox and it's still receiving keyboard input.

Version 3.4.442+b786f0

color viewer dialog accept abbreviated color codes

From Discord

Small feature request: can the color viewer dialog accept abbreviated color codes, such as #dfd for example?

Should be easier to open the editor with an existing image

• Add an explorer context menu option for this?
• Support the "Open With" menu?
• Add a global hotkey to open the editor?

Obscure tool does not respect image rotation

The Obscure tool applies the effect to where the image would be if the Angle was 0deg.

If we want the pixelated rectangle to appear exactly as drawn, we'll need to store angle information along with each obscured area. You could rotate, obscure, rotate obscure, etc.

wishlist

Editor

• upon every editor change, a preview image is generated on the main thread, causing a slight UI hiccup (or bigger than slight on low performance computers)
• allow cursor to be toggled on/off in editor
• Recent page is empty if no captures have been taken yet. Show a helpful message
• don't save empty documents
• bring image crop back
• should be able to nudge graphics with arrow keys
• transparent drawings are not click through
• reset angle no longer updates artwork bounds. adding/removing graphics does not update bounds.
• shift+drag to pan no longer changes the cursor to 4 arrows
• save as jpeg
• move up/down through Z order

Screenshot

• drawing text during the capture is super expensive! if we are dropping frames, try disabling cleartype. if framerate is bad (<40), we should probably disable vsync so we're not dropping 50% of all frames (makes it feel REALLY laggy)
• We could try using Preset2 (or what it is actually called) to mark certain areas as non-dirty
• a very long window title makes the tooltip panel extra big and it wraps and looks bad (i might even drop the window title and the display name, they both look messy)
• need a better font for the tips panel (??)
• selection size text should move instead of disappear when it can't fit
• full-screen zoom in Telegram is not recognized as a window and gets hidden

Other

• Color picker should use HSL as the internal color representation to prevent sliders from being reset.
• Double clicking a color from the palette should automatically close the dialog.

Bugs

• Zoom is not always centered on the right place
• Panning should clear auto-fit-center mode so that resizing the window doesn't re-fit

Improve usability of the mini color dialog

I have recently implemented a mini-color-picker in the experimental branch. This issue is to track some potential improvements.

• Keyboard support (eg. Enter, Esc)
• Remember recently used custom colors as a third swatch row. Store in global settings.
• Allow you to switch between HEX, RGB, and HSL textbox modes similar to the devtools implementation
• Apply color changes in real time and remove the "Cancel" and "Accept" buttons at the bottom.
• Eye dropper to pick a color from screen

Screenshot cursor is uncontrollable over RDP

From Discord:

I often use MS Remote Desktop to control my PC from my MAC. And when I want to use Clowd to take a screenshot, it's messy, I can't select a portion of the screen, the cursor is stuck on the edges, whatever I want it to go...

The reason for this is almost certainly that we use a fake "gamified" cursor. We do this to support fractional positioning when the canvas is zoomed in. (otherwise we'd have to snap the cursor to real pixels, and it would be moving too fast to be precise).

I suspect we can fix this by using the real windows cursor at zoom=1 and only switching to a fake cursor when zoom > 1. This might also fix another issue reported, where with a high dpi cursor and a high refreshrate display, moving the mouse while pressing PrtScr causes the mouse position to jump to an invalid position.

Add Self-Hosted Hasty Paste to Pastebin upload solution

Hello,
Is it possible to integrate the self-hosted solution https://github.com/enchant97/hasty-paste as an Pastebin upload solution?

Hasty paste can be used via API keys:
https://enchantedcode.co.uk/hasty-paste/rest-api.html

Ideally, if it would be possible to set the default expiration time ( never / x days / x hours ...) in settings that would be great.

thanks again

---

Exemple USE API :

curl -X 'POST' \
  'https://paste_url/api/pastes' \
  -H 'accept: application/json' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
  "content": "string",
  "expire_dt": "2022-10-25T12:18:34.347Z",
  "long_id": true,
  "content": "test"
}'

Acces to paste via : https://paste_url/<paste_id>

Réponse :

{
  "creation_dt": "Sun, 25 Sep 2022 12:24:40 GMT",
  "expire_dt": "Tue, 25 Oct 2022 12:18:34 GMT",
  "lexer_name": null,
  "paste_id": "uwZXsvCngRgXhTeCnUUpg6DOu0UPF5GgspEIETGB",
  "title": null,
  "version": 1
}

Acces to paste via : https://paste_url/<paste_id>
Acces to exemple paste via : https://paste_url/uwZXsvCngRgXhTeCnUUpg6DOu0UPF5GgspEIETGB

Option to disable context menu entries.

Add Self-Hosted Picsur to image upload

Hello,
Is it possible to integrate the self-hosted solution https://github.com/rubikscraft/Picsur as an image upload solution?

Picsur can be used via API keys:

API Picsur : https://github.com/rubikscraft/Picsur#api

Thx

Color picker opens and immediately closes if near the right edge of the screen

If the color picker has to open to the left because of a nearby screen edge, it opens on mouse down and closes right away on mouse up.

This also happens for the bottom edge if it has to open above the mouse cursor.

The content of a "Text" field is not saved if the user chooses the upload option

The content of a "Text" field is not saved if the user chooses the upload option

After creating a "Text" field:

1. If you directly choose the "Copy" or "Save" option, the text block contains the personalized text.
2. If you directly choose the "upload" ( it to Imgur ), the text block contains the default text

2022-09-08.23-44-09.mp4

A workaround is to click anywhere on the canvas before clicking upload.

Thx

Translation into other languages

I love Clowd, but I will love it more if it is in French.
I can help

Session images should not be shared

Copying an image from one editor session to another does not work as expected. The object data (such as image file path) is copied to the session, but the images themselves are not copied. This means if you copy an image from session A to session B, and then delete session A, session B will be left in a corrupted state.

Uninstalled this since it captures my pointer.

Uninstalled this since it captures my pointer and there is nothing I can do about it.
Sorry but I need to take screenshots without a mouse pointer in the middle of the text.

Capture cursor jumps around under high CPU load

When the CPU load is high enough to cause some mouse lag, the normal OS cursor seems to skip some points and still end up in a reasonable spots that matches the mouse input. The capture cursor behaves somewhat erratically in this case, jumping long distances with and without zoom.

Why "obligatory" recent history?

Why cannot we disable the history of made screenshots?

Remove the countdown at begining of a recording ?

Restore the Maximised state of editor windows on restart

When Clowd restarts it reopens all editor windows in their original positions, but does not restore the maximised state. It should.

Error during video recording with sound

When starting to record a video with sound, this error occurs :

We find the same message in the log generated in the destination folder. It does not happen when the sound is not activated in the recording settings.

Clowd version : 3.4.371+645041
OS : Windows 10 21H2