Screen Shot Changer

[de Carabas]

Yes, I guess I knew this format string request would come back again

I'll have a look at it. I'll also add the feature to choose your delimiter as dash, underscore or space (or none I guess).

[Flip]

You don't need a variable for the delimiter. Just let the user type whatever they want. In my previous example (%Y-%m-%d), you'd just replace the variables and today's result would be "2015-08-19" and if I defined the format as "%Y/%m/%d", the result would be "2015/08/19". This also allows the user to add whatever they want (i.e. "%Y-%m-%d (Flip)" would give "2015-08-19 (Flip)".

[Boozeman]

Yes, I guess I knew this format string request would come back again

I'll have a look at it. I'll also add the feature to choose your delimiter as dash, underscore or space (or none I guess).

Cmdr Boozeman rubs his hands with pleased attitude and have grin in his face

[de Carabas]

You don't need a variable for the delimiter. Just let the user type whatever they want. In my previous example (%Y-%m-%d), you'd just replace the variables and today's result would be "2015-08-19" and if I defined the format as "%Y/%m/%d", the result would be "2015/08/19". This also allows the user to add whatever they want (i.e. "%Y-%m-%d (Flip)" would give "2015-08-19 (Flip)".

Ah, I see what you are saying! Yes makes sense. It will need some checking for illegal characters in file names (like / | \ * : etc)

[Flip]

You don't need a variable for the delimiter. Just let the user type whatever they want. In my previous example (%Y-%m-%d), you'd just replace the variables and today's result would be "2015-08-19" and if I defined the format as "%Y/%m/%d", the result would be "2015/08/19". This also allows the user to add whatever they want (i.e. "%Y-%m-%d (Flip)" would give "2015-08-19 (Flip)".

Ah, I see what you are saying! Yes makes sense. It will need some checking for illegal characters in file names (like / | \ * : etc)

Ah yeah, good point, my second example was illegal. But yeah, you got the idea.

Should be easier for you in terms of UI, too, as you'd just have to provide a single text field.

[de Carabas]

Should be easier for you in terms of UI, too, as you'd just have to provide a single text field.

Yes(ish) but as I'm looking to have the option for renaming video files as well, I'm going to duplicate all the other fields so that you can have different schemes for the different media . So I'm moving all that into a separate settings dialogue and simplifying the main screen.

[de Carabas]

New version progressing but it's a pretty major overhaul so will be a while.
Two bugs I've noticed for your info
1) The reported file size of HD screenshots in the output log is showing as kb instead of mb
2) The SCC will throw an exception when trying to save an image with a system name with an invalid character (found this morning when taking a screen shot in Sagittarius A*). I'll have to just strip out those invalid characters but will report it in the output log.

[de Carabas]

I have a new version of the SSC but before it goes 'production' is there anyone that fancies giving it a go? I've tested it but machines vary and it's got a bit more to it now....

I've removed the link for now. There's a problem copying the video files produced from GeForce Experience when they get bigger. Standard vb.net copy functions are corrupting the files (it partially copies files being written to rather than erroring) and adding a delay in is not proving trustworthy, so I need to spend some time working out how to make it more reliable.

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v1.1.0
Complete redesign to enable the name changing for Video's as well as screenshots.
Added option to remember screen location
Added option to start on Windows boot
Added 'regular expression' like naming options for output files. Note: where this would cause a duplicate an incrementing number is added to the name.
Fixed the calculation of file sizes for the output log.
All invalid characters for file names are stripped out to allow saving.
Added notification area icon for access to settings or to 'hide'/'reveal' the application.

[de Carabas]

OK, sorted it I think. I've needed to put in two different checks that video files are 'free' to copy. Using either on their own meant the risk of copying an incomplete file which was then corrupted. Also a couple of minor buglets spotted and squashed.

Any feedback on this would be appreciated, especially around the regular expression use for the file names and then I'll compile a release version.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/312 ... r_test.zip

[Flip]

Great job, De Carabas!

I haven't tried videos, but screenshots work great!

Just one remark about the regular expression for the name: you don't have a pattern for seconds. Maybe you could add one, because it seems very possible to make more than 1 screenshot in a minute, and that would make it less (or not) necessary to append an incrementing number to the name. Maybe you could use %s for seconds and %sn or %n for system name?