i have only recently found a worthwhile, dedicated and lightweight screen capture utility, named Gadwin Print-Screen, but until then, i used to simply activate PrintScreen, or: Alt+PrintScr (WinXP) to capture what i needed. i kept MS Paint in my Quck Launch Bar so i could quickly open it, and paste the clipboard info, and save the screen capture. this worked "OK", but it wasn't perfect.
Gadwin Print-Screen on the other hand was the software that I had been searching for-- for years!. it runs on Win Startup in the sys tray, and assumes the function of PrintScreen (hit print screen, and Gadwin opens!). it has the ingenious, intuitive feature of a crop/zoom cursor such that when Gadwin has been activated, the screen freezes momentarily, allowing for the capture to be made over a specifcally cropped area-- and a zoom "tool tip" type of window hovers to show pixel perfect accuracy of cropped end-points. so, currently, until XnView incorporates something similar, i'll be fine to continue w/ Gadwin as i haven't any complaints there at all.
however-- if i want to capture at once the window in Focus, i still choose Alt+PrintScr and go to MS Paint.
My INQUIRY:
assuming you understand what is my purpose when I open MS Paint, and "paste" my Alt+PrintScreen capture there, perhaps you would understand why i'd like to see XnView have a "file">"new" feature so that i can use XnView instead of MS Paint to pull the picture from my clipboard. More and more, as i learn, i am able to do very much w/ the powerful XnView built-in image editing tools!
i would guess that because XnView is powerful enough to apply multiple effects to an image, re-size, auto-crop, and re-sample, and view nearly any image type (not to mention Audio media!), then surely it must be capable of creating a "NEW" file for receiving clipboard data.
i hope that you consider File>New for future XnView development. then, i can leave XnView open ALL DAY LONG!
and i'll find uses for it continually. i use it sooo much!
