Continuing my look at some of the highlights in the upcoming Window Clippings 3 release, today I want to share some of what I’ve done to improve support for capturing popups.
Basically you should expect far better support for capturing different types of popups. Previous version of Window Clippings did a good job of capturing standard popups such as tooltips and standard menus, but it failed with applications that used non-standard menus and popups such as those from WPF applications.
The good news is that this is no longer a problem and Window Clippings 3 can easily handle many more types of popups.
That’s it for today. Stay tuned for more highlights from the upcoming Window Clippings 3!
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Kenny Kerr 
Thank you! This is the one feature I wished was supported in Window Clippings. Happy days!
It would be cool if you shared some more technical details about the changes in v3. DWM vs classic. How do you know this is a menu etc
My focus right now is to get wc3 done. Once that’s behind me I’ll hopefully have some time to do some more writing.
Have you tried wc3 with Stardock’s Fences in use? I *think* wc2 went bad for me once I started using Fences (ie. inability to select individual windows any more — always selects whole desktop now).
I am waay too addicted to Fences to ever go back though so I’d love it if you could try it out once before wc3 goes live… pretty please!
John
I tried Fences with both wc2 and wc3 (on Windows 7) and it doesn’t appear to cause any trouble. Can you still reproduce this problem?
I just experimented more and I have to exonerate Stardock. It seems that this is only a problem with the main window of our app which I needed to take lots of clips of this week.
Oddly, other windows in our app work fine with wc2.
It’s a pretty standard WPF-based window so I have no idea why wc2 cannot select it. I do have the popups issue you mention in this post for our other windows so I’m psyched to see that’s improved.
If there’s anything I can tell you about our main window to diagnose the issue, Spy++, Snoop, etc. let me know. I’d love to have WC work everywhere in our app.
John
Sorry to steal the comments into bug triage but I think I see the culprit: Telerik RadDocking
I can send you a test app to repro the problem if you like. The 30-day trial of RadControls for WPF would be needed to build/run if you don’t already have a license.
John
I’ll be happy to test with a repro app. My email address is under the Links in the sidebar.