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Pointer options

Capturing single menus

The zap menus shown shown below demonstrate the effect of the pointer settings move and show on what is captured when a snap is done (you may need to increase the width of your browser window to show everything side by side correctly).

The snap below was taken with Move on and Show off. Snapper first moves the pointer off the bottom left of the screen. The wimp detects this and uninverts the menu item under the pointer. With Show off, Snapper does not superimpose the pointer on the image after capture. The snap below was taken with Move off and Show on. The menu item under the pointer is inverted, and Snapper superimposes the pointer in its correct position so the final image is the same as would be seen on-screen. The snap below was taken with both Move on and Show on. Snapper moves the pointer off the bottom left of the screen and the wimp then uninverts the menu item under the pointer. Snapper inserts an image of the pointer in its original position after capture is complete. The snap below was taken with both Move off and Show off. Since the pointer position is still over the menu item the wimp keeps the item inverted, but Snapper does not superimpose the pointer.
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Capturing parts of the iconbar

The iconbar is simply a window without any furniture. Therefore the iconbar can be captured by selecting 'Window', placing the pointer over the iconbar and snapping in the normal way.

Specific parts of the iconbar can be captured easily using the snap area option, positioning the area to cover just the part of interest. However, there can sometimes be problems. Here is a question asked by several users.

"I was trying to capture some icon bar icons, using the "area" option for this. I set the area window to cover the icon/s I want, and then trigger the snap. The whole icon bar then moves smartly to the left, and I'm left with a screenshot of different icons to the ones I wanted! How can I stop this?"

This is due to the setting of the Move option. If Move is ticked, then on snapping, the pointer is moved to the bottom left corner of the screen. If the iconbar is too long to completely fit the screen width, and has been scrolled to the right, then moving the pointer to bottom left will immediately cause the iconbar to scroll back. Thus Snapper copies the incorrect area. The answer is to untick Move before snapping. This effect would also be observed when trying to capture the whole iconbar if it has been scrolled to the right.


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