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@cogniapps cogniapps released this 10 Aug 17:46

SnapBuddy 0.6.6 — two things you asked for, and one deliberate change of habit.

Updates itself from 0.6.0 or later.

Saving a card now asks you where

This is the change you will notice first. Until now Save files wrote straight into the
folder in Settings and told you afterwards. It now opens a normal Save As dialog, so a file
never lands somewhere you did not pick. The notes travel with the picture: the .md sidecar is
written beside the image, under the name you chose.

If you liked the old behaviour, it is still there — Settings → Save straight to the folder
above, without asking where
. It starts off after this update, including on an upgrade,
because files appearing unasked is the thing being fixed. Auto-save-on-every-card is unaffected
and still writes to the folder; it is its own opt-in and prompting on every card would defeat
the point of it.

Delayed capture

A delay control (none / 3s / 5s / 10s) sits next to the capture buttons. Set it, click
Screen, Region or Window, and you get that long to open a menu, hover a tooltip, or get the
window into the state you actually want to photograph. It applies to all three capture buttons
— setting a shot up is not something one of them does differently.

It does not apply to the tray menu or the global hotkeys, on purpose. Those exist to grab
something instantly, and a hotkey that quietly does nothing for five seconds reads as a broken
hotkey, not as a feature. Clicking a second time while the countdown is running is refused
rather than queued.

Known issues

Unchanged from 0.6.5, and worth repeating:

  • The webcam bubble has still never been tested against a real camera.
  • Recording more than one monitor at once is still not supported: one monitor, one window, or a
    region of one monitor.
  • Trim, GIF export and annotation burn-in have had very little hands-on use.
  • Cloud upload is still groundwork only — off by default, no settings screen, and the storage
    backend is not connected. This build behaves like 0.6.5 unless you configured it by hand.

If something misbehaves, %APPDATA%\com.snapbuddy.desktop\logs holds the current and previous
run.