Salasaga

When Salasaga runs for the first time

When Salasaga runs for the first time, it automatically sets up a few things:

1. Creates a "salasaga" folder inside the user's home directory. (i.e. if a user is called "jc", and has a home folder at "/home/jc" then salasaga will create a "/home/jc/salasaga" folder.
    
2. Creates sub-folders of this called "projects", "output", and "screenshots".
    
3. Sets up the key combination of "Control-Printsceen" for taking screenshots.
    

Screenshots are automatically placed in the "screenshots" folder of the users "salasaga" directory, and are sequentially numbered.

i.e. "screenshot0001.png", "screenshot0002.png", "screenshot0003.png", etc.

After you've taken the screenshots you're after, press the Import button in Salasaga IDE and it will automatically import these screenshots into the project (deleting them from the screenshot folder at the same time).

How to do screenshots in Windows

To do screen captures:

1. After loading Salasaga, click the "Capture" toolbar icon.
    
2. In the dialog that opens, choose the area of screen to capture (i.e. starting point, width, height).
    
3. Screen captures can now be done by pressing Control-Printscreen.
   • Salasaga does not need to be in the foreground, so feel free to minimise it and do screen captures of whatever applications and stuff you want.
      
   • You might see the mouse pause briefly each time you do a screen capture.  (This is pretty standard.)  The screen captures are automatically saved into your screen capture folder, ready for Salasaga to Import.
      
4. Click the "Import" toolbar icon to have the screen captures you've done loaded into the present project, or just go and find them in the screenshot folder in your home directory if you want to use them for something else.

Once turned on, screen capturing is turned off by quitting out of the Salasaga IDE.

Note about screenshots of menu's not working in X-Windows (Linux, Solaris)

As I discovered (to my horror), X Windows doesn't allow people to take screenshots in certain common situtations. For example, when a drop down menu is open in a gnome application. (Ouch)

Fortunately, this behaviour can be changed pretty easily. :)

The way around this, for at least the version of X I'm running (X.Org 7.x), is to add:

Option "AllowDeactivateGrabs" "true"

... to the "ServerFlags" section of your xorg.conf file, and restart X Windows.

Next time you want to do a screenshot and something is blocking the screenshot key causing it to not work, press Control-Alt-/ first to tell X to "ungrab", then press the Screenshot combo (generally Control-Printscreen) and that will work. You'll need to press Control-Alt-/ every time you want to ungrab though, not just the first time it happens.

So, to repeat, capturing screenshots during menus and some other situations requires you to do Control-Alt-/ then Control-Printscreen instead of just Control-Printscreen.

For me, this works. :)