Screen shots for Bugzilla

[Jason Pyeron]

how about open a bug, and attach it there.

On Sun, 24 Jul 2005, Mick Weiss wrote:

> 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:
>> 
>>> Thomas, Steve wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Our users like to use the Windows Print Screen functionality to
>>>> 
>> quickly
>> 
>>>> paste a screenshot of a bug into email.
>>>> 
>>>> Now that we're moving them to Bugzilla I'd like to try to get
>>>> 
>> them
>> 
>>>> something similar. I can probably hack something together myself,
>>>> 
>> but
>> 
>>>> does anybody know if anybody else has done this?
>>>> 
>>> Apart from Joel Spolsky for FogBugz? ;-)
>>> 
>>> 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
>>> 
>> a
>> 
>>> given bug number. So you press Alt-PrtScrn, click on the tray icon,
>>> 
>> and
>> 
>>> enter the bug number in the box which pops up.
>>> 
>>> Gerv
>>> -
>>> 
>> There are a number of apps for windows that do this already. I can't
>> recall off the top of my head a name but I know I have used some in the 
>> past.
>> 
>> 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
>> they are attached. If there is any interest i can send a patch.
>> 
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