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PS. Since we are showing things... I also ended up writing a screen-to-gif recorder to make the gifs for the Nullboard's readme. I always assumed this was a ra

PS. Since we are showing things... I also ended up writing a screen-to-gif recorder to make the gifs for the Nullboard's readme. I always assumed this was a rather involved matter, but it was a surprisingly simple thing to do. Just GetDC() + BitBlt() in a loop + some nuances. It looks something like this - https://swapped.cc/tmp/giffer-screencap.gif https://swapped.cc/tmp/giffer-screencap.gif The release "page" is over at - https://gist.github.com/apankrat/14b28656236d78407b28aef3102cf72d https://gist.github.com/apankrat/14b28656236d78407b28aef3102... If there's any interest I can clean up and publish the source.

frederikb 7y ago
I can strongly recommend ScreenToGIF [1]. It literally does as the name says but packs in some helpful additional features related to editing. [1] https://www.screentogif.com/ https://www.screentogif.com/
- apankrat 7y ago
  One man's "helpful additional features" are another man's feature bloat. Specialization vs. Universality and all that. I find that for a quick capture/re-capture grabs, with no editing, STF adds too many extraneous clicks and interaction. Heck, even GifCam [1] is too UX heavy for back-to-back captures. The whole point of Giffer is that you launch it, size it, press F1, press F1 again. Done. To re-record do F1/F1 again. That's it. [1] http://blog.bahraniapps.com/gifcam/ http://blog.bahraniapps.com/gifcam/
  - voltagex_ 7y ago
    Finally remembered what it reminds me of: LiceCap from https://www.cockos.com/licecap/ https://www.cockos.com/licecap/
voltagex_ 7y ago
Hey, thanks for this and bvckup2! I'd definitely be interested in seeing the source.
- apankrat 7y ago
  OK. It won't be compilable, because of dependencies on the UI framework and utility libraries, which I can't yet release, but it still should be very much readable and easy enough to hack into a usable state.

frederikb 7y ago

I can strongly recommend ScreenToGIF [1]. It literally does as the name says but packs in some helpful additional features related to editing. [1] https://www.screentogif.com/ https://www.screentogif.com/

apankrat 7y ago
One man's "helpful additional features" are another man's feature bloat. Specialization vs. Universality and all that. I find that for a quick capture/re-capture grabs, with no editing, STF adds too many extraneous clicks and interaction. Heck, even GifCam [1] is too UX heavy for back-to-back captures. The whole point of Giffer is that you launch it, size it, press F1, press F1 again. Done. To re-record do F1/F1 again. That's it. [1] http://blog.bahraniapps.com/gifcam/ http://blog.bahraniapps.com/gifcam/
- voltagex_ 7y ago
  Finally remembered what it reminds me of: LiceCap from https://www.cockos.com/licecap/ https://www.cockos.com/licecap/

voltagex_ 7y ago

Hey, thanks for this and bvckup2! I'd definitely be interested in seeing the source.

apankrat 7y ago
OK. It won't be compilable, because of dependencies on the UI framework and utility libraries, which I can't yet release, but it still should be very much readable and easy enough to hack into a usable state.