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1st July 2021
Yesterday's button dilemma continued throughout the day..

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For simplicities sake, the current buttons are [ or ] to do videos, and ; or ' for screenshots.
The buttons only work when ingame, so you needn't worry about taking a bazillion screenshots and videos whilst typing code!

Yesterday, Michael Fernie suggested...

I would use the Prtsc (print screen) key for the screenshots. Many programs use that. Even Windows will capture the screen if you press that key.


Seems obvious, until you realise that MacBooks don't have Printscreen buttons.. I mean.. COME ON, Apple.. It's bad enough there's no numpad!!!
You have no idea how often my fingers start tapping away at shift+return and other nearby keys, when trying to type in numbers!

But, yeah, no PrintScreen here, so I'm going to avoid using that.

For the Video start and end how about using the TAB key. I doubt anyone will use that in a JSE program.


This one seems like a really good idea, until you think about Alt+Tab/Ctrl+Tab/other things that use Tab.
Imagine if you're playing a game, Alt+Tab over to something else momentarily, and that kicks off a Record session which carries on in the background, and eventually murders your CPU!!
Nope.. Not a good idea!

To be fair, the regular record button would do the same.. I think I need to add a "Break recording if the browser's not in focus" thing..
.. Can I do that in the browser, though!?
Hmmm..

Oh, and an overlay to say "This is being recorded!!"

Anyhoo, the buttons are still temporary. If you can come up with better button options, shove them in the comments, and I'll have a think about them.
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