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I was thinking about having the window hide itself when taking screenshots. But, what you can do is have it running with the systray option enabled, close it (click the - top right, or press escape) then use the systray menu (right click the tray icon), and select Upload->Screenshot. That way you can take a full screenshot without it being in the way.

As for the white rectangle issue, no one else has mentioned it yet and i still can't reproduce it :/

If you can get it to work almost on demand with v1.1.0, can you download version 1.0.0 (it's the portable version) and see if you can get it to happen on that one? If it doesn't happen then it's something i changed between the versions which i'll try and find.

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"tis planned. The biggest problem before was that I had no experience in Objective-C, so the current widget is based entirely on Javascript, CSS, and HTML. Now I know Obj-C, which means there's much more power within my reach through Cocoa. Pretty much anything a regular application can do can now be done with this widget.

Now that you know Objective-C, you can write it as a normal app as well as a widget, and then you can add a blur behind the window like the Windows version uses! :p

Also, the Windows version doesn't have a blur behind the "toasts", looks kinda strange but maybe that's just me.

Actually I think I might be able to achieve the blur through a quartz composition anyway... I'm against a full blown app, because it's the kind of thing the Dashboard is designed to avoid ;)

What I am looking at, though, is a dock droplet that interacts with the widget. So you can take a file, drop it on an icon in the dock, and have it automatically copied to the pasteboard (like is an option now anyway, but you need to do the awkward drag, Dashboard button, drop thing).

  The_Decryptor said:
Now that you know Objective-C, you can write it as a normal app as well as a widget, and then you can add a blur behind the window like the Windows version uses! :p

Also, the Windows version doesn't have a blur behind the "toasts", looks kinda strange but maybe that's just me.

forgot about the blur on the toasts, mainly because i code it on XP so rarely see the blur, i'll add to it later, should be an update out in a few days anyway once i fix a few bugs i've found

Oh, by the way, anyone who wants in on the OS X localhostr 2.0 widget, PM me and I'll keep you up to date. You'll be enrolled for update notifications for the beta version, so one download is all you'll need.

There isn't a usable beta version yet, but it's on the way, and it will be much better than what there is now.

Update 1.1.1 has been released. Couple feature changes plus a few bug fixes:

Bugs fixed:

  • Aero glass blur was not being applied to the toast notifications.
  • Deleting history while uploading caused 100% cpu usage.
  • Starting a screenshot from the top of the screen caused a crash.

Features:

  • Window screenshots - lets you select a window to take a screenshot of. This has a separate button/menu than the normal screenshot mode. A red rectangle around the window shows which window will be captured, left to click to take the screenshot & upload.
  • Proxy support - this will take the proxy settings from IE. Supports the automatic *.pac files. If you have different proxies for different protocoles, the HTTP proxy will be used

Other changes:

  • Added 2 new buttons for the screenshot modes. The preferences button has also changed in appearance and has joined the screenshot buttons in the middle (at the bottom) of the main window and the preferences window.

The update is live and the app should tell you there is an update within 24hrs (only checks once every 24hrs)

  simon360 said:
Oh, by the way, anyone who wants in on the OS X localhostr 2.0 widget, PM me and I'll keep you up to date. You'll be enrolled for update notifications for the beta version, so one download is all you'll need.

There isn't a usable beta version yet, but it's on the way, and it will be much better than what there is now.

I can has? :p

  skelly831 said:
Thanks for the update Mike, the new features are great, especially the screenshot buttons :D

let me know if it still keeps turning into a white rectangle for you. the only thing i changed (that i can remember anyway) to do with the drawing of the app between the first release and 1.1.0 ended up being changed back.

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