Delayed screenshot
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1. Open a drop-down menu or a hidden menu with Alt (Explorer.exe, Firefox…).
Something volatile to losing focus.
2. Try to capture window with AeroShot.
* Using the GUI makes the subject lose focus and hide before the screenshot is
taken.
* The Alt in Alt-PrintScreen also hides my subjects.
Using AeroShot 1.3.2 on Windows 7 Home Premium.
I would like to be able to shoot these elusive targets and I suspect adding a
option to delay the actual screenshot from the time of the
key-press/button-click by a couple of seconds would allow it as follows:
Activate AeroShot -> Open and focus subject -> AeroShot fires
Original issue reported on code.google.com by syntaxer...@gmail.com on 28 Nov 2012 at 1:31
Couldn't figure how to add this as an enhancement, not a defect.
Original comment by syntaxer...@gmail.com on 28 Nov 2012 at 1:33
I need this today so went ahead and made the minimal necessary modifications as
a quick hack. Pressing ALT+PrtScn will have the normal behavior but adding CTRL
to the combo, as in CTRL+ALT+PrtScn, will take the screenshot with a delay of 5
seconds (sorry, hard-coded). It gives enough time to, for example, pop open to
some menu in the target window before the screenshot is taken.
Original comment by azizatif on 25 Jul 2014 at 10:29
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There are now there options for the Hotkeys:
Alt+PrtSc = immediate; no delay
Alt+PrtSc (delay option enabled) = Delay of 1 - 10 seconds
Ctrl+Alt+PrtSc = hard coded delay of 3 seconds
The third option is there for my preference. 99% of time I won't need a delay. When I do, I don't want to have to toggle the option to turn it on, and 3 seconds is the perfect amount of time for me.
@toehead2001 Thanks for applying my patch 👍 and I'm glad to see you left the hard-coded option in because as you said and as I've found too, it's good enough for the 99% case.