Skill Scanner

[jdegre]

thanks oz & gandalf for the info.

so, my app receives from the clipboard the whole image from both displays and, as you said, i have to look for the skills window in a huge desktop area, even when working in full-screen mode.

carebear pointed out to use <Alt>+<PrntScrn> when in windowed mode; this should put in the clipboard only the active window (and this is what everybody should use when in windowed mode, btw), but it won't work in full-screen mode (well, it will work, but slowly, obviously).


@sledge: yes, using windows native code would have many benefits, but i'll try to stay away from that approach, if possible. i think that having a 100% java approach offers many advantages (specially form the security point of view).

for instance, people have suggested why not using a "hotkey" different than PrintScrn to activate the scanning?. well, the answer is that it is not possible. in java, i cannot register a system-wide hotkey (and therefore, i could not possibly implement a keylogger, which is a good thing, don't you think so?).

so, my app. simply listens in the clipboard for image-type objects, and you can activate it with PrntScrn, Alt-PrntScrn, or even Ctrl-C (if you have screenshots in BMP files, you can open them with an imaging-processing application and hit Ctrl-C to activate the scanning app.).

[GandalfSzary]

Originally Posted by jdegre

carebear pointed out to use <Alt>+<PrntScrn> when in windowed mode; this should put in the clipboard only the active window (and this is what everybody should use when in windowed mode, btw), but it won't work in full-screen mode (well, it will work, but slowly, obviously).

I can confirm this method is working. I am down to approx 6 secs.

[jdegre]

Originally Posted by GandalfSzary

I can confirm this method is working. I am down to approx 6 secs.

you mean using Alt-PrntScrn when in windowed-mode or using Alt-PrintScrn when in full-screen mode?

i assumed from the beginning that everybody using windowed-mode would be aware of the Alt+PrntScrn feature (and i included in the howto instructions, although maybe too subtly), but it's always good to send a small reminder...

[GandalfSzary]

Originally Posted by jdegre

you mean using Alt-PrntScrn when in windowed-mode or using Alt-PrintScrn when in full-screen mode?

I mean it works a hell faster with Alt-PrntScrn in window mode... Sorry for bringing there some confusion

[jdegre]

Originally Posted by GandalfSzary

I mean it works a hell faster with Alt-PrntScrn in window mode... Sorry for bringing there some confusion

that's ok... i've changed a little bit the "howto" to put some more emphasis in the Alt+PrntScrn feature.


on a different topic, i've been told of an issue with copy-paste interfering with other windows apps.
i have identified the issue and i believe it is solved now; it will be released on the next version.
just wanted you to be aware of the issue, in case you see some strange behavior in the copy-paste while using the skill scanner.

[ruslan]

Awesome tool!
++rep

[Eron²]

just used the tool in windowed mode and it worked like a champ i didnt notice anything wrong in the skill listings but i will admit that i didnt look that close. great work and thanks for the awsome tools

[sitram]

Can you make a switch on the application to turn no/off the sounds?

Another useful feature will be to introduce a new tab professions scanning too. It will help when updating engropedia.info with skill and professions lvls.
All informations to be exported in the same file.

That's all the feed-back from me so far. Nice work you did on the application.

Sitram

[Sodiak]

This works great! I had no problems what so ever! + rep!!

[Konve]

This thread sure deserve another free bump.

Processing in windowed mode takes 1,4-1,5 seconds for me.