Tag: screen size

How to capture a scrolled window in Snagit

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The scrolled window setting is a feature in Snagit that can be used to capture a page or application whose contents are too long or too wide to fit in one window. There is an “auto-scroll” setting which is supposed to scroll the window vertically or horizontally until all the content is captured.

I’ve never been able to get that to work and assumed it was broken on Windows XP. Perhaps it works on Vista. After playing with all the options I did finally manage to find a good workaround, although I still can’t get the default “auto-scroll” setting to work.

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Maximizing the Captivate window automatically

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We found that some of our users did not know how to maximize windows (or even that it was possible!), and so never saw the navigation bar and buttons on the bottom of a Captivate-based course they had to take.

The customer who designed the course asked that we add instructions on maximizing the window, but I thought that it would make more sense just to make the window maximize itself.

It’s been a while since I used window sizing functions, so I went hunting for a script that works across all browsers.

After trying several, I found that some “auto-maximize window” scripts don’t even work every time on ANY browser. The one that worked best on every browser I tested it on is available free from Dynamic Drive, here.

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