The future of ScreenGrab! June 15, 2006
Posted by andy in : screengrab , 26 commentsIt seems that I was dug recently. I must have missed it on the feed, but apparently I got a fair few digs. Yay for that!
The extra interest that this brings, means there are more people trying it out (which is nice) and asking more questions and pointing out bugs and so on. This brings to light the current problem that I have, whereby I’d like to do more work on ScreenGrab (and the other extensions I have planned) but I don’t have much free time what with study, work, wedding plans and a 3 hour round trip commute every day.
I have plans for upgrades, and I have an alpha with a couple of new features, but I just haven’t had time to do anything with it.
The things I’m working on are…
- being able to select a region to grab (using something similar to MeasureIt)
- removing my dependence on Java (much like the folks over at Pearl Crescent did with their PageSaver, based - like I said one would be eventually, on the Canvas widget).
- all those configuration options people keep whining about (default save to location, default naming, different file types, different menu locations)
- making a shortcut key to do the grab
I am also working on a super-secret project that I hope will actually be popular. 
Is there anything else that people would like? Would anyone like to help? I can make a Subversion repository and I have a very easy to use environment for building these things.
Actually, maybe I should make a proper tutorial on how to do this. Making Firefox extensions is dead easy - the hard part is figuring out which parts of the DOM are the useful ones.
Thoughts? Comments?
