Screen shots for Bugzilla

[Mick Weiss]

Wow what timing... I'd like to get that patch :-)

Reason: I'm using a modified version of MegaCap (a project on sf.net to 
create screenshots), to get people to send in screenshots for bugs. That 
saves them in bmp... I was just about to re-write the code in MegaCap, 
but that is an even nicer solution since 1/2 of the people use MS Paint.

If you could, either post to the list (i'm not sure if it would get 
stripped from the emails) - otherwise just send it to my email: 
micklweiss at gmx.net

Thanks!

- Mick


Gregary Hendricks wrote:

>		On Wednesday 20 July 2005 14:05, Gervase Markham wrote:
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>>Thomas, Steve wrote:
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>>>Our users like to use the Windows Print Screen functionality to
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>quickly
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>>>paste a screenshot of a bug into email.
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>>>Now that we're moving them to Bugzilla I'd like to try to get
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>>>something similar. I can probably hack something together myself,
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>>>does anybody know if anybody else has done this?
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>>Apart from Joel Spolsky for FogBugz? ;-)
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>>Probably the smoothest way would be for you to write a tray icon app
>>which read the clipboard, created an image file, and attached it to
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>>given bug number. So you press Alt-PrtScrn, click on the tray icon,
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>>enter the bug number in the box which pops up.
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>>Gerv
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>There are a number of apps for windows that do this already. I can't
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>off the top of my head a name but I know I have used some in the past.
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>One thing to watch out for that has caused us some consternation is
>that many 
>of the windows apps (MS Paint especially) saves the screen shot as an 
>uncompressed bmp file which can eat up disk space in a hurry. We have
>added a 
>little hack to bugzilla to automatically convert bmp to png files when
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>are attached. If there is any interest i can send a patch.
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