ScreenClip - A Utility for Taking Clipped Images of your Desktop
This is just a small utility for those who prefer a bit more than what the Windows 11 screen clipping allows.
This ScreenClip utility allows you to tweak-and-adjust to get exactly what you want.
It has both "Copy" (to clipboard) and "Save" (as a file) options. The "Save" option does not use the clipboard at all, and has PNG, JPG, BMP, WMF, EMF, & GIF options. So, you can choose your poison with respect to saved image formats. Also, it remembers the previous format you used as well as the folder you saved to.
There are also hotkeys for the menu options:
| Flip | Ctrl+F |
| Copy | Ctrl+C |
| Save | Ctrl+S |
| Explore | Ctrl+E |
| Min to Tray | Ctrl+M |
| Exit | Escape |
This is also a good example of a roll-your-own TitleBar and Menu system, as I had to do that to make the Flip option work the way I wanted.
It also has code in it for capturing (as a picture) your complete desktop, for those who may want that.
The client-area of it is transparent, so it's a bit strange to take a screenshot of this utility, but here it is (with Flip activated):
You just resize (or move) it to get the exact desktop clip you want, and then either copy it or save it. The "Explore" option is nice too. It just opens up a Windows File Explorer into the folder where you last saved a desktop clip.
Ohh, and no subclassing. I went back-and-forth on this as I was developing this utility. In the end, I managed to do everything I wanted without any need for subclassing nor hooks. So, it's completely IDE safe.
And the VB6 source project is attached.