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Re: Show HN: Screenity – Open source screen recorder and annotation tool

#11

Post by alyssaxuu »

renewiltord wrote: post #10

Your extension is incredible! Absolute game changer. Would you mind allowing the toolbar to be completely hidden or positioned elsewhere? The current position hides UI elements that I want to show people and I can't click on anything. If I use show on hover it pops up in the middle of the interaction.

Thank you! Maybe there could be a shortcut to hide it, or the option to place it elsewhere, hm. I might think of some solution for this, although I'm not sure when I'll be able to look into it. You could modify the CSS in the content.css file in GitHub for the toolbar to be positioned elsewhere & then compress everything and throw it on chrome://extensions in developer mode if you want to have it changed right away :P

Re: Show HN: Screenity – Open source screen recorder and annotation tool

#12

Post by alyssaxuu »

dddw wrote: post #9

Looks great! Isn't it easy to port this to Firefox? Or are they stricter about permissions used in FF for such an extention?

It should be easy yeah, maybe in the future I (or someone else using the code from the repo) could port it to Firefox.

Re: Show HN: Screenity – Open source screen recorder and annotation tool

#13

Post by renewiltord »

alyssaxuu wrote: post #11
renewiltord wrote: post #10

Your extension is incredible! Absolute game changer. Would you mind allowing the toolbar to be completely hidden or positioned elsewhere? The current position hides UI elements that I want to show people and I can't click on anything. If I use show on hover it pops up in the middle of the interaction.

Thank you! Maybe there could be a shortcut to hide it, or the option to place it elsewhere, hm. I might think of some solution for this, although I'm not sure when I'll be able to look into it. You could modify the CSS in the content.css file in GitHub for the toolbar to be positioned elsewhere & then compress everything and throw it on chrome://extensions in developer mode if you want to have it changed right away :…

Works like a charm. Some well-placed `display: none !important` sprinkled everywhere did the trick.

Re: Show HN: Screenity – Open source screen recorder and annotation tool

#14

Post by nikolay »

alyssaxuu wrote: post #2

After trying out some of the most popular screen recorders for Chrome, I realized how lacking and limited many of them were. So I decided to create the most powerful screen recorder for Chrome, completely free and open source, with lots of features such as freedrawing, text, arrows, multiple cursor options, push to talk, custom countdowns, editing, and much more. Let me know what you think! I have also created a Goog…

Great work! This definitely will replace the other tools I use to record stuff in the browser!

Re: Show HN: Screenity – Open source screen recorder and annotation tool

#16

Post by alyssaxuu »

kaushikt wrote: post #15

Looks great, the only concern I have is about privacy and couldn't find anything.

Thanks, in terms of privacy if you're worried you're free to self host the tool using the code from GitHub instead of installing the extension from the Chrome Store. But it doesn't store any data whatsoever, it's all client-side.

Re: Show HN: Screenity – Open source screen recorder and annotation tool

#18

Post by alyssaxuu »

fracarma wrote: post #17

That's great, thanks for sharing this! I can't wait for the Firefox version ;)

Thanks! I might work on a Firefox version since there seems to be a lot of people interested, porting shouldn't be that hard: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2015/10/porting-chrome-extensions-...
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