send image directly from clipboard to ftp?

[wellington1869]

anyone know a way to do this?

scenario:

1. I hit alt-printscreen to capture current active window to clipboard
at this point i could control-V it into an application. BUT:
2. Instead, I'd like a way to save it to a file directly (not going thru Paint or etc), OR even better directly to an ftp location.

you'd think this would be a no brainer in the era of insta-blogs, but amazingly google has failed me so far.

[wellington1869]

update: never mind! Keep googling and ye shall find what ye seek:

http://www.instantfundas.com/2010/01/upload-windows-clipboard-content-to-ftp.html

for the record, this is why i love windows. If you can imagine it, someone's written a free script for it.

[wellington1869]

update 2:  ok, while its a solution, i'd prefer not to use java... anyone know of any other solutions?

[wellington1869]

by the way I know jing does this very well, but jing is heavy and slow on my computer anyway; was hoping for a much simpler script. I suppose I could write one in AHK.

[wellington1869]

update 4: Once again, if you can imagine it, someone's written an autohotkey script for it! :-D
http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=50675&highlight=clipboard+file

[itlnstln]

I like the "Snipping tool" in Windows 7.  It might not be quite as easy, but it does make things a lot faster.

[wellington1869]

I like the "Snipping tool" in Windows 7.  It might not be quite as easy, but it does make things a lot faster.

i forgot about that one. I'm on Xp still on my old laptop, but my tablet has win7. Will check it out.

[hyperlinked]

Can you represent an FTP connection as a folder or a drive on your desktop and then have your program save to that folder/drive?

[wellington1869]

Can you represent an FTP connection as a folder or a drive on your desktop and then have your program save to that folder/drive?

that would be neat;  Apparently novell's netdrive (free) can do that. . There might be other solutions; i remember reading about how to do this on godaddy's support site somewhere.

[kishy]

I think...THINK...that Windows can do that on its own without third party software.

Might involve installing some part of IIS though.

[wellington1869]

I think...THINK...that Windows can do that on its own without third party software.

i'm thinking that too; IIRC the godaddy instructions didnt require third party software. That said, I vaguely remember trying it and finding the connection either unreliable or slow; i remember dropping the attempt after a while. Of course win7 might have improved on it, will have to look it up and try it I guess.

[wellington1869]

another ahk page about this. apparently its not easy in ahk either.
lots of visual basic scripts to do it tho.

[wellington1869]

actually i might stick with snag-it for now.  Just didnt want to put yet another program in my startup folder. I'll eventually mash together a right-click option, esp for images.

"right click -> send to ftp" done directly on the active window (or any image) in a single step would be ideal.  Oh and then automatically place the url into the clipboard

[wellington1869]

"clupper" and "tinygrab" might be lighter-weight versions of what snag-it does, as far as ftp-ing a captured screenshot easily.
http://www.ampercent.com/send-screenshots-files-folders-to-ftp-desktop/4767/

"Right click the system tray icon to take a screenshot. After the screenshot is ready, hit the clup it button and the image is uploaded in your FTP account. The image URL is copied in your system clipboard so you can just perform a simple copy paste and add the image in a new blog post"

tinygrab sounds pretty ideal.

[d4rkst4r]

For printscreens, I use Gadwin Printscreen. Lots of options, free.

For the FTPing, you could use a simple Python script that monitors a specific directory.

[itlnstln]

You should be able to map a network drive and offload to it.

[wellington1869]

screensnapr looks light too.

pickpick is a portable app, looks light.