On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 7:58 AM, Mehul Vedmehul.n.ved@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 12:44 AM, RSCL Mumbairscl.mumbai@gmail.com wrote:
One such application I developed & use is a "PrintScreenRecorder". Its a small application which resides in the system tray and activates when "F1" is pressed. The application will simulate a "ALT + PrintScreen" key press, start paint.exe, paste the image in paint and then save it as .jpg. This prevents me from doing all this manually.
How about pressing PrintScreen key and click on save instead of F1 key. That's all that's needed in linux to print the screen.
+1. Linux distros already have an application that pops up a dialog to save screenshots, whether printed with Printscreen or Alt+Printscreen.
I am sure there are application (like AutoIT3) which will help me create small GUI based application for my linux desktop. Application which can interact with MySQL, Firefox, OS functions etc.
So AutoIT does not use any language for you to customize application building? That is quite odd. In all cases, if you want to do any kind of application development, your tool will have some kind of programming language backend. You will find that most of your tiny tools needs are taken care of. For those that are not, if you want it bad enough, you will learn python and get around to doing it yourself. Python is extremely easy to learn -- many guys around here will vouch for it. Depending on your distro, you can peek into the development tools section of your package manager to see the huge variety of development tools you can immediately get access to. You have tools such as glade for GTK, monodevelop for mono and kdevelop for kde that can aid you in preparing GUIs.
And then you have eclipse, which can potentially work as an IDE for virtually every language and platform -- once you are finally done configuring it ;)