ShareX - Open source screen capture/recording and uploading software

[garychencool]

I'd like to say that this is the best thing ever and I wish I wasn't such a lazy ass and installed it ages ago.

[garychencool]

Ok so for some reason, when playing GTA V full screened, I screenshot using ShareX and when I look back at the images, they are all just nothing but black.

[Reagy]

[QUOTE=garychencool;49377269]Ok so for some reason, when playing GTA V full screened, I screenshot using ShareX and when I look back at the images, they are all just nothing but black.[/QUOTE]

It can't screencap fullscreen games, this was literally explained 4 posts up...

[Alice]

[QUOTE=Reagy;49377371]It can't screencap fullscreen games, this was literally explained 4 posts up...[/QUOTE]
You honestly expect people to read even a couple of posts before posting a question that seems like it'd be a common occurrence? That's asking far too much. The few seconds they save by not reading are FAR more valuable than the several more seconds people spend explaining to them why they're stupid for not reading.

[garychencool]

Well sorry for not taking the time to read the above posts/the whole thread, what is this, XDA?

[Alice]

[QUOTE=garychencool;49378664]Well sorry for not taking the time to read the above posts/the whole thread, what is this, XDA?[/QUOTE]
It's pretty reasonable to expect someone to at least read the last page of a thread before asking a question. As Reagy said, the same question had already been asked. Like four posts above yours.

[inaba]

[QUOTE=garychencool;49378664]Well sorry for not taking the time to read the above posts/the whole thread, what is this, XDA?[/QUOTE]

It's only four and a half pages, and skimming is a good thing

[FPtje]

[QUOTE=gokiyono;49380701]It's only four and a half pages, and skimming is a good thing[/QUOTE]
Forum threads are terrible as an FAQ. The questions and answers are just part of a huge pile of posts that also contains other discussions. XDA has the same problem.

[Giraffen93]

[QUOTE=FPtje;49380971]Forum threads are terrible as an FAQ. The questions and answers are just part of a huge pile of posts that also contains other discussions. XDA has the same problem.[/QUOTE]

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[HighVoltage]

I just installed this and after I right clicked on a folder containing all my steam games to make a shortcut the explorer window stopped responding. I'm guessing its caused by the "Upload with ShareX" context menu and/or the Show ShareX in "Send to" menu options and the ShareX going through every file or something.

I'm not sure if this is a known issue but I figured you'd like to know

[Jaex]

[QUOTE=highvoltage;49510349]I just installed this and after I right clicked on a folder containing all my steam games to make a shortcut the explorer window stopped responding. I'm guessing its caused by the "Upload with ShareX" context menu and/or the Show ShareX in "Send to" menu options and the ShareX going through every file or something.

I'm not sure if this is a known issue but I figured you'd like to know[/QUOTE]

I don't think ShareX can cause this because I didn't even use Windows shell codes to create those menu items. I just used registry for context menu item and file shortcut for send to menu, both can't cause such complex behavior like "going through every file" to accomplish that crash.

How you certain that ShareX caused this? Not to mention this context menu entry exist for last +5 years and not a single person reported such issue.

[HighVoltage]

[QUOTE=Jaex;49510378]I don't think ShareX can cause this because I didn't even use Windows shell codes to create those menu items. I just used registry for context menu item and file shortcut for send to menu, both can't cause such complex behavior like "going through every file" to accomplish that crash.

How you certain that ShareX caused this? Not to mention this context menu entry exist for many years and not a single person reported such issue.[/QUOTE]

Weird, I wrote that post while the window was still non-responsive and turned off those options and it worked fine when explorer calmed down and now that I re-enable them its working as intended.
It must of just been an issue with something else on my end. Thanks for the quick response though

[Zezibesh]

something just broke and it was probably because of the new update
I can't even turn the program on

[img]https://my.mixtape.moe/tlgail.png[/img]

System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException: Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation. ---> System.BadImageFormatException: Could not load file or assembly 'ShareX.ScreenCaptureLib, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null' or one of its dependencies. The module was expected to contain an assembly manifest.
   at ShareX.TaskSettings..ctor()
   at ShareX.ApplicationConfig..ctor()
   --- End of inner exception stack trace ---
   at System.RuntimeTypeHandle.CreateInstance(RuntimeType type, Boolean publicOnly, Boolean noCheck, Boolean& canBeCached, RuntimeMethodHandleInternal& ctor, Boolean& bNeedSecurityCheck)
   at System.RuntimeType.CreateInstanceSlow(Boolean publicOnly, Boolean skipCheckThis, Boolean fillCache, StackCrawlMark& stackMark)
   at System.Activator.CreateInstance[T]()
   at ShareX.HelpersLib.SettingsHelper.Load[T](String path, SerializationType type, Boolean checkBackup)
   at ShareX.HelpersLib.SettingsBase`1.Load(String filePath)
   at ShareX.Program.LoadProgramSettings()
   at ShareX.Program.Run()
   at ShareX.Program.Main(String[] args)

ShareX 10.6.1 Release

[Jaex]

That happens when library file is corrupt. Reinstalling ShareX fixes it.
No idea what randomly causing library to get corrupt sometimes.

[Zezibesh]

Yeah, that fixed it. Thanks for the quick response.

[garychencool]

So this is the third time it has happened: when I take a screenshot, it asks me if I want to upload or not. Selecting no should tell ShareX to never ask me again whether or not to upload and disable uploading entirely. So far, it has prompted me three times after pressing No each time.

[Jaex]

[QUOTE=garychencool;49815525]So this is the third time it has happened: when I take a screenshot, it asks me if I want to upload or not. Selecting no should tell ShareX to never ask me again whether or not to upload and disable uploading entirely. So far, it has prompted me three times after pressing No each time.[/QUOTE]

After press no it never asks again normally. But your setting never save look like so it keep asking again when you reopen ShareX. Check debug log to see why setting save fails.

[Curls]

Been using this for a while now and holy shit is it powerful

[garychencool]

[QUOTE=J!NX;49815537]Been using this for a while now and holy shit is it powerful[/QUOTE]

I've used it to record videos and make gif recordings. It just makes it so much easier to do. I would never have made any gifs of my screen (showing Windows 10 being stupid) without ShareX. I would have been too lazy.

Would be really cool if it can edit gifs such trimming them down to reduce file size instead of opening it up in Photoshop but oh well. Hopefully that's a feature in addition to the existing photo editor with ShareX.

[garychencool]

[QUOTE=Jaex;49815535]After press no it never asks again normally. But your setting never save look like so it keep asking again when you reopen ShareX. Check debug log to see why setting save fails.[/QUOTE]

2016-02-26 11:00:53.963 - Hotkey triggered: Hotkey: Print Screen, Description: Capture entire screen, Job: PrintScreen
2016-02-26 11:00:54.180 - Task in queue. Job: Job, Type: Image, Host: Imgur
2016-02-26 11:00:54.180 - Task status: Preparing
2016-02-26 11:00:54.621 - Image copied to clipboard.
2016-02-26 11:00:55.676 - Image saved to file: C:\Users\Gary\Documents\ShareX\Screenshots\2016-02\2016-02-26_11-00-54.jpg
2016-02-26 11:00:59.229 - Task status: Stopping
2016-02-26 11:00:59.282 - Task completed. Filename: 2016-02-26_11-00-54.jpg, URL: , Duration: 5015 ms

[Giraffen93]

Would be nice with an explorer right click option to open with the bundled editor, if it hasn't need added in a newer version

[smithy285]

Really great tool, thank you so much for making it! Makes my life so much easier

[Jaex]

[QUOTE=garychencool;49818246]

2016-02-26 11:00:53.963 - Hotkey triggered: Hotkey: Print Screen, Description: Capture entire screen, Job: PrintScreen
2016-02-26 11:00:54.180 - Task in queue. Job: Job, Type: Image, Host: Imgur
2016-02-26 11:00:54.180 - Task status: Preparing
2016-02-26 11:00:54.621 - Image copied to clipboard.
2016-02-26 11:00:55.676 - Image saved to file: C:\Users\Gary\Documents\ShareX\Screenshots\2016-02\2016-02-26_11-00-54.jpg
2016-02-26 11:00:59.229 - Task status: Stopping
2016-02-26 11:00:59.282 - Task completed. Filename: 2016-02-26_11-00-54.jpg, URL: , Duration: 5015 ms

[/QUOTE]

You need to check these:

2016-02-26 19:56:26.743 - ApplicationConfig save started: D:\ShareX\ApplicationConfig.json
2016-02-26 19:56:26.743 - UploadersConfig save started: D:\ShareX\UploadersConfig.json
2016-02-26 19:56:26.744 - HotkeysConfig save started: D:\ShareX\HotkeysConfig.json
2016-02-26 19:56:26.858 - UploadersConfig save successful: D:\ShareX\UploadersConfig.json
2016-02-26 19:56:26.867 - HotkeysConfig save successful: D:\ShareX\HotkeysConfig.json
2016-02-26 19:56:26.878 - ApplicationConfig save successful: D:\ShareX\ApplicationConfig.json

These trigger when setting window closing or when ShareX minimize to tray or when ShareX closing.

[Scratch]

[QUOTE=Giraffen93;49818402]Would be nice with an explorer right click option to open with the bundled editor, if it hasn't need added in a newer version[/QUOTE]

tried to hack my way through it like I do with my android screenshot tool

but
[img]https://jii.moe/V1zGgX9il.png[/img]

#Screenshot Batch
D:\Scratch\Documents\Github\ShareX\ShareX\bin\Debug\Sharex.exe "D:\Scratch\Desktop\%result%.png" -workflow "Phone"

#Annotate Batch
D:\Scratch\Documents\Github\ShareX\ShareX\bin\Debug\Sharex.exe "%1" -workflow "AnnotateWF"

Workflow is to open a file in the image editor
[img]https://jii.moe/4JT5gm5ol.png[/img]

Maybe I'm missing something

but if it can be executed from command line, it can easily be implemented into shell via an entry in the registry

[Jaex]

[QUOTE=Scratch.;49822940]tried to hack my way through it like I do with my android screenshot tool

but
[img]https://jii.moe/V1zGgX9il.png[/img]

#Screenshot Batch
D:\Scratch\Documents\Github\ShareX\ShareX\bin\Debug\Sharex.exe "D:\Scratch\Desktop\%result%.png" -workflow "Phone"

#Annotate Batch
D:\Scratch\Documents\Github\ShareX\ShareX\bin\Debug\Sharex.exe "%1" -workflow "AnnotateWF"

Workflow is to open a file in the image editor
[img]https://jii.moe/4JT5gm5ol.png[/img]

Maybe I'm missing something

but if it can be executed from command line, it can easily be implemented into shell via an entry in the registry[/QUOTE]

You need to use -task instead of -workflow also this need to be enabled:

[img]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/14076298/ShareX/2016/02/ShareX.vshost_0K5qlSKW06.png[/img]

and create hotkey like this:

[img]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/14076298/ShareX/2016/02/ShareX.vshost_c45AVJMgVk.png[/img]

Then it will work fine and you can add it to your shell context menu yourself.

[Pretender]

Thanks for making such an awesome program! We use this for FTP uploads at an NPO I work for and it works really well.

[Zezibesh]

so I just noticed that taking a screenshot actually darkens it, and taking screenshots of screenshots will significantly darken the image. I'm not really sure if I fucked up the settings on my end somehow, but I use .png capture and changing the upload service doesn't seem to affect it.

here's an example of how it darkens, comparison is my browser empty tab background so I don't know if the graininess affects it or something. is it something with the program or my browser? using firefox
[t]https://files.catbox.moe/my9nnx.png[/t]

[Jaex]

[QUOTE=Zezibesh;49905310]so I just noticed that taking a screenshot actually darkens it, and taking screenshots of screenshots will significantly darken the image. I'm not really sure if I fucked up the settings on my end somehow, but I use .png capture and changing the upload service doesn't seem to affect it.

here's an example of how it darkens, comparison is my browser empty tab background so I don't know if the graininess affects it or something. is it something with the program or my browser? using firefox
[t]https://files.catbox.moe/my9nnx.png[/t][/QUOTE]

Did you tried opening image with image viewer so you can know is it to do with your Firefox. But there is no code which can darken image so it must be something in your end. Like similar thing was happened to someone before it was to do with his monitor color profile.

[Zezibesh]

I don't really understand how monitor's own color settings would affect it, and my settings for both monitors are the exact same on the software side. I suppose it must be the recompression or something (although I thought png was lossless?) as it happens with Chrome as well
[t]https://files.catbox.moe/59ac35.png[/t]
[t]https://files.catbox.moe/ind6a1.png[/t]

this was after 5-6 screenshots

[Jaex]

[QUOTE=Zezibesh;49906021]I don't really understand how monitor's own color settings would affect it, and my settings for both monitors are the exact same on the software side. I suppose it must be the recompression or something (although I thought png was lossless?) as it happens with Chrome as well
[t]https://files.catbox.moe/59ac35.png[/t]
[t]https://files.catbox.moe/ind6a1.png[/t]

this was after 5-6 screenshots[/QUOTE]

Exact same problem was happening to one person and it was to do with monitor color profiles. GDI was using that color profile and affects color of image. There was no option in GDI to change this behavior. I captured logo 6 times now and color not changed at all. There is no compression and using default .NET png encoding.

Can you try using another screen capture software which uses .NET for encoding etc. and test your case? Example Greenshot.

Issues related to your problem:
[url]https://github.com/ShareX/ShareX/issues/1236[/url]
[url]https://github.com/ShareX/ShareX/issues/42[/url]