Lightscreen Portable 1.0 Pre Release 2 Revision 1

1) The help.html file still shows for Lightscreen 0.5
2) You are using an out of date launcher (1.6.0.0), you should be using 1.6.1.0.
3) This should be a Dev Test not a Pre-release, it's a new version.
4) In your post, you should be following ISO 8061 date format (YYYY-MM-DD) (including leading zeros).

Also - Have you tested it on any OS or anything?

as of 5:40 pm CDT USA

TrendMicro [via VirusTotal] 8.950.0.1092 2009.06.12
Reports PAK_Generic.001 Infection

As I don't have TrendMirco I'm not sure how to report it.

Thought you might want to know.

Tim

Need to add MB to the download/install sizes and thanks for updating = )

Hello

I have installed the pre-release file and all went well.

The program however, has this problem:

If you untick the "File" window in the "General" tab, it will not pick up the screenshots into the clipboard.

Even if the "Copy the screenshot to the clipboard" in the "Advanced" tab is ticked.

I do not want to save any file, I just want to copy them into the clipboard.

Thanks!!!

1) uninstall.exe is in the app directory and it should not be there
2) it cannot find optipng. (May be just a program problem)

It looks like you just copied and pasted part of the 7-Zip Portable launcher into the LightScreen Portable launcher as it is referencing 7-Zip registry keys and the 7-Zip local reg file from 7zP. I was gonna release this today, but you'll need to fix this before we do.

Lightscreen is my favorite, least-used app, with KeePass. I don't use them much, but I am glad to have them as when I do need them, well, they do a hell of a job.

My favorite new feature is the Save As bit, where instead of just dropping it in the same folder with the same naming convention every time, it gives you the choice. What I don't dig though is, if you hit cancel, it just changes the program title bar to Failed! for a second. I have a better idea: Have it ask "Are you sure you want to discard this screenshot?" If the user says yes, do like before but change "Failed!" to "Nevermind.". If the user says no, bring back the Save As.

Also, another alternative way to "deal" with the screenshot, besides Save As, could be a feature which sends the picture to ImageShack or some other free image host and returns the direct link to the image. So I could take a screenshot of something and put it right into a forum. That would be pretty killer, eh?

1.0 does seem a little buggy.
- Optipng.exe has to be in the PortableApps\LightscreenPortable directory to use the "Optimize PNG screenshots" option.
- If you don't save to a file, it won't copy the screenshot to the clipboard either.
- The "area" capture will only capture from my primary monitor, and the "magnify around mouse" option doesn't work properly.
- "Include the cursor in the screenshot" option doesn't work on my system.
- Dual-monitor screen captures only work if I drop from 32 bit to 16 bit color quality, and even then it doesn't seem to always work. To be fair though, the Windows PrintScreen doesn't work on my system either, so at least Lightscreen gives me the option to grab only one monitor, which does work.

I'm running XP Pro, SP2, 3 GB RAM, NVIDIA Quadro FX 550 with two monitors at 1680x1050.

Other than possibly the optipng.exe issue, I'm sure that these are all issues I should bring up with the developer.

Hello. As http://lightscreen.sourceforge.net/#download shows the final version of Lightscreen 1.0 being available, when will we get it portable? Thanks.