Support 'cropped' screenshot for logbook, mail, maybe more

[kasemir]

BOY, Data Browser, alarm GUI, … support submitting logbook entries or sending emails. Some include a screenshot of the respective display or plot. Users can add additional images by selecting an image file, add a screenshot of CS-Studio, or a screenshot of the complete display.

Turns out what users (at least SNS operators) really like to do quite often is add a screenshot of some other partial window: Not the whole CS-Studio window, nor the complete display, but some section of some window.

For now this means: Start another screenshot program (gimp, ksnapshot, …), take screenshot in there, save as file, then locate that file when creating the logbook entry or email.

It would be really, really very convenient to streamline this.
Ideas:
Add a button "Section of Screen" to the logbook and email dialog for snapping a rectangular section of the screen.
Or add a "Crop" feature to the list-of-images in the logbook dialog, so users can take a complete screenshot as already offered, but then crop that to the section of interest before submitting.

[berryma4]

I really like the idea of an option that eclipse opens gimp, etc. for
editing, then saves the image ... this would be great.

On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 8:57 AM, kasemir notifications@github.com wrote:

BOY, Data Browser, alarm GUI, … support submitting logbook entries or
sending emails. Some include a screenshot of the respective display or
plot. Users can add additional images by selecting an image file, add a
screenshot of CS-Studio, or a screenshot of the complete display.

Turns out what users (at least SNS operators) really like to do quite
often is add a screenshot of some other partial window: Not the whole
CS-Studio window, nor the complete display, but some section of some window.

For now this means: Start another screenshot program (gimp, ksnapshot, …),
take screenshot in there, save as file, then locate that file when creating
the logbook entry or email.

It would be really, really very convenient to streamline this.
Ideas:
Add a button "Section of Screen" to the logbook and email dialog for
snapping a rectangular section of the screen.
Or add a "Crop" feature to the list-of-images in the logbook dialog, so
users can take a complete screenshot as already offered, but then crop that
to the section of interest before submitting.

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[kasemir]

Sure. If you ask users, the full requirement is something like

• Push button to start screen capture
• Be able to select rectangular region
• Allow adding annotations similar to the Mac OS 'Preview' app: Add an arrow, text, line, rectangle to mark a "Look here!" section of the image
• Push "OK" to include that in the logbook entry or email

All this can be done by starting an external ksnapshot/gimp/Mac OS screen capture/..., saving the image file, then attaching that image file to the logbook entry or email. But having to save the image file, i.e. coming up with a name and directory, plus then 10 seconds later being required to remember that image name and location for attaching it to the logbook entry or email is the big issue.
A way to start that external program, then getting the image automagically would be acceptable.
Adding a "crop" functionality to the existing full-screen-capture would also give 99% of what's done most of the time.