Is there any Wink-like freeware which can capture input driven Browser activity?
I'm looking for an equivalent of Wink for capturing input driven changes to a browser screen. This follows a painful few days trying to make Wink work in a scenario where it clearly cannot (unless someone here can enlighten me)
No idea if anyone on EE is familiar with Wink. It's among the best examples of freeware I've come across (http://www.debugmode.com/wink/) In short it's a damn good way to capture screen (or window or selected area) activity from any desktop application, for the purpose of creating tutorials, demonstrations, fault illustrations etc. I've been using it on and off for about 7 years. I've yet to have any kind of problem with it (barring this shortcoming which I suspect I can't blame it for)
It has 3 capture modes.
Manual (default hotkey PAUSE) will capture a screen shot (or window, or region) every time you press the Pause key.
Timed (default SHIFT-PAUSE) captures screens - regardless of activity - at whatever frame rate you choose.
and
Input Driven (default ALT_PAUSE) Which captures screen shots every time it detects a change in the screen.
The last is the most useful and economical.
The problem is that this mode doesn't work for browser activity. I should point out that the first two capture options contine to work and be available without a problem, so we know the software itself is alert and functional, even within the browser windows. But I suspect the software cannot access whatever memory or hooks it uses for capturing desktop activity isn't available to it within the browser. I know it's not down to choice of browser. I've tried Firefox, Chrome, SRWare Iron, ie, Edge, Skype (remote shared screen) and Teamviewer (ditto).
So the question is, do we know of anything which can deliver the same functionality within one or more browser environments? Preferably freeware as I'll generally be using this in situations which have no commercial connection.
No idea if anyone on EE is familiar with Wink. It's among the best examples of freeware I've come across (http://www.debugmode.com/wink/) In short it's a damn good way to capture screen (or window or selected area) activity from any desktop application, for the purpose of creating tutorials, demonstrations, fault illustrations etc. I've been using it on and off for about 7 years. I've yet to have any kind of problem with it (barring this shortcoming which I suspect I can't blame it for)
It has 3 capture modes.
Manual (default hotkey PAUSE) will capture a screen shot (or window, or region) every time you press the Pause key.
Timed (default SHIFT-PAUSE) captures screens - regardless of activity - at whatever frame rate you choose.
and
Input Driven (default ALT_PAUSE) Which captures screen shots every time it detects a change in the screen.
The last is the most useful and economical.
The problem is that this mode doesn't work for browser activity. I should point out that the first two capture options contine to work and be available without a problem, so we know the software itself is alert and functional, even within the browser windows. But I suspect the software cannot access whatever memory or hooks it uses for capturing desktop activity isn't available to it within the browser. I know it's not down to choice of browser. I've tried Firefox, Chrome, SRWare Iron, ie, Edge, Skype (remote shared screen) and Teamviewer (ditto).
So the question is, do we know of anything which can deliver the same functionality within one or more browser environments? Preferably freeware as I'll generally be using this in situations which have no commercial connection.
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Have taken a look. Not sure it will do what I was after but it looks like it'll do a few other things I've always thought about doing. Might even fix the loss of functionality in Keepass post Firefox 56. So take the points and thankyou.