This application allows for the screen capturing and uploading of stationary images (in .PNG format) and a collection of images (in .GIF format) in real time.
Included is the server-side .php scripts in the server folder, and the code for the client-sided program is located in the client folder.
In the settings.php script, you will need to change the global
variables at the top of the script.
Change the HOST, USERNAME, PASSWORD, DATABASE, and TABLE_NAME
variables to match your database information.
The variable defined as URL_PATH is the folder that the images will
be saved in. This folder will also contain the index.php script. By
default, this will be ss/. Please note, if you change this value in
the script, you MUST change the folder name as well. You will also
have to change the /ss/ in the .htaccess on this line:
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /ss/index.php?path=$1 [NC,L,QSA].
For the UPLOAD_PASSWORD, SALT, and ACCESS_PASSWORD it is
recommended you generate a random password.
UPLOAD_PASSWORD is the password required for the screenshot to be uploaded.
This should be also set in the client side to validate that the image is being
uploaded from an authorized source.
SALT is the salt for generating the hash for the image URL.
ACCESS_PASSWORD is the password for being able to access the php page ss/all.php'. To access this page and view all your images, you should go to the URL as shown: http://website.com/ss/all.php?p=ACCESS_PASSWORD`.
The client itself allows for uploading to any url host that accepts an
image with the POST key uploaded_image.
To configure the upload URL and the password, either compile the JAR
file yourself with the main class as tray.CreateTrayIcon.
Ensure that the names of the JAR files match the value of the variable
PROGRAM_NAME in the class tools.Constants. The JAR should be named
{{PROGRAM_NAME}}.jar. An example of both compiled JARs are located
in the
releases section.
Download the JAR file from the releases section.
Open the JAR. An icon should appear in the tray. Right click this
icon and click Settings. Click Advanced Settings and then input
the URL of where your upload_image.php script or equivalent direct
URL is located. The server password below should match the global
variable UPLOAD_PASSWORD in the settings.php file.
- Create a more efficient GIF capture.
- Change how capture works by creating one middleman overlay class that passes information to both the CaptureImage and the CaptureGIF class. This would cut down on some repeated code.
- Experiment with smoother canvas drawing as the current method (JavaFX Canvas embedded in Swing component is not very smooth).
- Allow for any text to be uploaded to the website instead of having to replace all non ASCII characters before sending data.
- Create a fancier index.php page for screenshot viewing.
- Send region capture data to CaptureGIF so it only creates the GIF and then saves the image.
- Move Enable GIF from Config to Settings.
- Give the option to GIF upload to personal server rather than Gfycat.
- If upload fails, store image and queue upload at different time.
- For the overlay, change the startX, endX, startY, and endY variables rather than doing a check of whether startX or endX is the smaller value.
- Align image in center and resize larger images for index.php.
- Allow for Gfycat GIF embed in index.php page.
- Look for an alternative method to store the salt.
- Add an "include title" checkbox option in the settings.
- Add more exceptions to the logging.
- Move the uploaded_image.php api to the ss/api.php page.
- Potentially rewrite an an alternative language.
- Tray Icon Image (Name: Share Screen) by Chinnaking from the Noun Project. The image was resized, edited, and the colours were changed. Link: https://thenounproject.com/search/?q=screen%20share&i=1050685