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Simple but powerful screenshot and screen recording tool for Windows.

License: MIT License

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clowd's Introduction

Clowd

Clowd is a minimalist screen capture / screen recording tool. It sits out of your way in your system tray, and is activated when you press the PrntScr key.

The latest "stable" release can always be downloaded from here. If you are looking for the "beta", you should update via the app settings.

windows x64 - only tested on Windows 10/11

I will respond to bug reports or questions in GitHub issues. Also feel free to bug me (@caesay) in the Clowd Discord server:

Region Capture / PrntScr Replacement

Uses Direct3D so is super fast and responsive
Scroll to zoom in on any part of your screen, pixel perfect selections (or just looking at stuff on your screen closely)
Fully keyboard accessibly
Snaps selection to window borders
Click on any window to quickly bring it to the foreground
Select any color to open a color picker

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Video Recorder

Record MKV, MP4, or GIF's easily
Capture Speaker and Microphone audio
Optionally show animation where mouse was clicked
Draw / annotate on screen when recording video or screen sharing

Image Editor

Minimalistic / Easy-To-Learn UI for quick edits
Save and return to recent seessions
Copy to Clipboard or Upload to the web in one click

Upload Anything

Can upload any file or screenshot from PC with one click
URL is copied to clipboard
Supports a vareity of file sharing websites

Color Picker

Select any color on screen using the PrntScr Screen Capture. Press 'H' when your cursor is over the desired color.
Can also open the color picker from the tray icon.

Draw On Screen

Can draw anywhere on the screen while recording a video or sharing screen during a video conference

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Building Clowd

The Clowd.Native project must be compiled before Clowd. If using Visual Studio, this should be done automatically when pressing F6. If using Rider, you may need to edit the run configuration to build Native before starting the main project.

If having any troubles compiling with the IDE, you can replicate a CI build by running the following commands:

git clone https://github.com/clowd/Clowd.git
build.cmd -noDelta

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clowd's Issues

The content of a "Text" field is not saved if the user chooses the upload option

After creating a "Text" field:

If you directly choose the "Copy" or "Save" option, the text block contains the personalized text.
If you directly choose the "upload" ( it to Imgur ), the text block contains the default text

2022-09-08.23-44-09.mp4

A workaround is to click anywhere on the canvas before clicking upload.

Thx

Obscure tool does not respect image rotation

The Obscure tool applies the effect to where the image would be if the Angle was 0deg.

If we want the pixelated rectangle to appear exactly as drawn, we'll need to store angle information along with each obscured area. You could rotate, obscure, rotate obscure, etc.

Restore the Maximised state of editor windows on restart

When Clowd restarts it reopens all editor windows in their original positions, but does not restore the maximised state. It should.

Add Self-Hosted Hasty Paste to Pastebin upload solution

Hello,
Is it possible to integrate the self-hosted solution https://github.com/enchant97/hasty-paste as an Pastebin upload solution?

Hasty paste can be used via API keys:
https://enchantedcode.co.uk/hasty-paste/rest-api.html

Ideally, if it would be possible to set the default expiration time ( never / x days / x hours ...) in settings that would be great.

thanks again

Exemple USE API :

curl -X 'POST' \
  'https://paste_url/api/pastes' \
  -H 'accept: application/json' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
  "content": "string",
  "expire_dt": "2022-10-25T12:18:34.347Z",
  "long_id": true,
  "content": "test"
}'

Acces to paste via : https://paste_url/<paste_id>

Réponse :

{
  "creation_dt": "Sun, 25 Sep 2022 12:24:40 GMT",
  "expire_dt": "Tue, 25 Oct 2022 12:18:34 GMT",
  "lexer_name": null,
  "paste_id": "uwZXsvCngRgXhTeCnUUpg6DOu0UPF5GgspEIETGB",
  "title": null,
  "version": 1
}

Acces to paste via : https://paste_url/<paste_id>
Acces to exemple paste via : https://paste_url/uwZXsvCngRgXhTeCnUUpg6DOu0UPF5GgspEIETGB

Nudge image at 150% DPI can sometimes nudge it in 2px increments every 2 nudges

Might be caused by anti-blur tweaks. Something isn't quite right with that transform rounding.

Capture cursor jumps around under high CPU load

When the CPU load is high enough to cause some mouse lag, the normal OS cursor seems to skip some points and still end up in a reasonable spots that matches the mouse input. The capture cursor behaves somewhat erratically in this case, jumping long distances with and without zoom.

Should be easier to open the editor with an existing image

Add an explorer context menu option for this?
Support the "Open With" menu?
Add a global hotkey to open the editor?

Screenshot cursor is uncontrollable over RDP

From Discord:

I often use MS Remote Desktop to control my PC from my MAC. And when I want to use Clowd to take a screenshot, it's messy, I can't select a portion of the screen, the cursor is stuck on the edges, whatever I want it to go...

The reason for this is almost certainly that we use a fake "gamified" cursor. We do this to support fractional positioning when the canvas is zoomed in. (otherwise we'd have to snap the cursor to real pixels, and it would be moving too fast to be precise).

I suspect we can fix this by using the real windows cursor at zoom=1 and only switching to a fake cursor when zoom > 1. This might also fix another issue reported, where with a high dpi cursor and a high refreshrate display, moving the mouse while pressing PrtScr causes the mouse position to jump to an invalid position.

Translation into other languages

I love Clowd, but I will love it more if it is in French.
I can help

Option to disable context menu entries.

Possible undo/redo improvements

The current architecture allows anything to add an entry to the undo history by calling AddCommandStep(). When called, it serializes all of the graphics in a deterministic way to a byte[] array. This is done in many places eagerly, such as a pointer tool mouse-up after dragging, or after adding a new graphic. If the previous state is identical to the current state, it is discarded.

This works very well most of the time and it's very unlikely that a change will be missed and not added to the history.

There are a couple things that can be improved:

If we are doing an operation like nudge, or changing object line width, it's possible for many entries to get added to the history as AddCommandStep() is triggered every time something is changed
Modifying an image crop causes an history entry for each modification of the crop window which produces some unexpected results as object state may be inconsistent while cropping. A crop operation should only be treated as a single entry.
We could store the entire undo/redo history so it is preserved for re-loaded sessions

Design considerations:

Undo manager ideally would have little/no knowledge about any specific graphic object. (ie. avoid specific checks looking for things like GraphicImage.Editing)

I considered serialising the objects to an XElement and comparing the XML element(s) that have changed between the previous and current entry instead of doing a binary comparison. This would help with (1) but we would need some additional consideration for things like Left, Top, etc. An object Move will update all of the coordinate properties, as well as content bounds. This implies that some knowledge of the specific graphics would be required.

jpg instead of png as default format for save.

Make jpg instead of png as default format for save. Png for screenshots by default is only increasing size of the screenshot for no real gains. If people needs lossless screenshots they can switch to png manually.

Hide video controls from video recordings

If recording the whole screen, there's no great place for the clowd recording controls. If we use WGC and SetWindowDisplayAffinity with WDA_EXCLUDEFROMCAPTURE the controls will not be present in the recording.

WGC also captures cursors more correctly. It's downside is that windows renders the yellow border around the display, and there are some types of windows that it will not record.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/winuser/nf-winuser-setwindowdisplayaffinity

wishlist

Editor

Screenshot

drawing text during the capture is super expensive! if we are dropping frames, try disabling cleartype. if framerate is bad (<40), we should probably disable vsync so we're not dropping 50% of all frames (makes it feel REALLY laggy)
We could try using Preset2 (or what it is actually called) to mark certain areas as non-dirty
a very long window title makes the tooltip panel extra big and it wraps and looks bad (i might even drop the window title and the display name, they both look messy)
need a better font for the tips panel (??)
selection size text should move instead of disappear when it can't fit
full-screen zoom in Telegram is not recognized as a window and gets hidden

Other

Color picker should use HSL as the internal color representation to prevent sliders from being reset.
Double clicking a color from the palette should automatically close the dialog.

Bugs

Zoom is not always centered on the right place
Panning should clear auto-fit-center mode so that resizing the window doesn't re-fit

Black screen on video recording

i tried everything change format + quality but still outputs came black.

https://i.imgur.com/uJp7kCJ.png

Clowd crash when trying save capture

Clowd crash when trying save capture
Whether directly with the "SAVE" button below the capture or via the editor

Clowd : 3.4.442+b786f0
Windows :

Function to pre-select areas to keep hidden/obscure while taking a video

Hello

Do you think it would be possible to add a function to pre-select areas to keep hidden/obscure while taking a video?

Thx

Setting object properties via top properties bar does not update command history

Currently the Pointer tool is responsible for updating command history if the object is moved, resized, rotated - etc. This does not work if the properties are modified from the top bar.

Uninstalled this since it captures my pointer.

Uninstalled this since it captures my pointer and there is nothing I can do about it.
Sorry but I need to take screenshots without a mouse pointer in the middle of the text.

color viewer dialog accept abbreviated color codes

From Discord

Small feature request: can the color viewer dialog accept abbreviated color codes, such as #dfd for example?

Improve usability of the mini color dialog

I have recently implemented a mini-color-picker in the experimental branch. This issue is to track some potential improvements.

Keyboard support (eg. Enter, Esc)
Remember recently used custom colors as a third swatch row. Store in global settings.
Allow you to switch between HEX, RGB, and HSL textbox modes similar to the devtools implementation
Apply color changes in real time and remove the "Cancel" and "Accept" buttons at the bottom.
Eye dropper to pick a color from screen

Ability to define global shortcut for “Draw on Screen” feature

Self-explanatory :)

Remove the countdown at begining of a recording ?

Possibility to choose the upload method when taking a screenshot

Do you think it would be possible to choose the upload method when taking a screenshot?
For example via a long press on "Upload" if several methods are specified.

Thanks 😃

Images uploaded with Imgur are not viewable within account

Maybe Clowd should create an album to put the images in so they can be deleted from the web interface

Color picker opens and immediately closes if near the right edge of the screen

If the color picker has to open to the left because of a nearby screen edge, it opens on mouse down and closes right away on mouse up.

This also happens for the bottom edge if it has to open above the mouse cursor.

Why "obligatory" recent history?

Why cannot we disable the history of made screenshots?

Minimized at system startup

Hello,

Would it be possible to get clowd minimized on Windows startup?

Thanks for this software.

Clicking an object that causes the top bar to expand will inadvertently drag that object up a little

Not sure how to best fix it. Ideas:

don't shift the canvas when the top bar expands
don't start drag if the mouse move didn't exceed the drag threshold in screen coordinates

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/233656993578090507/1021062313727492127/2022-09-18_15-16-46.mp4

Session images should not be shared

Copying an image from one editor session to another does not work as expected. The object data (such as image file path) is copied to the session, but the images themselves are not copied. This means if you copy an image from session A to session B, and then delete session A, session B will be left in a corrupted state.

Its capturing the mouse cursor even when told not to

Its capturing the mouse cursor even when told not to.

Clicking outside a text box doesn't exit edit mode anymore

Enter the textbox edit mode. Click outside the textbox. Expected: the text gets committed. Actual: what I clicked gets selected, but I'm still editing the textbox and it's still receiving keyboard input.

Version 3.4.442+b786f0

Tool bugs when editor loses focus

If the editor loses mouse capture and does not trigger the MouseUp event, this causes tools to break - thinking they are still operating even though the action should have been aborted. Tools should handle the LostMouseCapture event to account for this.

Capture directly to upload > cursor is present on the image

If I make a capture, and I click directly to upload it then the cursor is present on the image.
However, the option is not active for me.

Version : 3.4.339
Same problem in 3.4.440

2022-09-24.22-36-10.mp4

Error during video recording with sound

When starting to record a video with sound, this error occurs :

We find the same message in the log generated in the destination folder. It does not happen when the sound is not activated in the recording settings.

Clowd version : 3.4.371+645041
OS : Windows 10 21H2