sindresorhus/caprine

Support for dragging in macOS Mojave floating screen shots

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#646 opened on Nov 6, 2018

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Description

If you take a screen shot in macOS Mojave, the shot will float in the screen edge for a few seconds. You can take this image and drag where you like, this way the file won’t be saved, so you don’t have to clean up after you sent it.

Caprine (similarly to Slack) doesn’t receive this type of image, only the files the OS saves after a few seconds.

It is very frustrating that I have to wait a while before I can send a screen shot.

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Research direction
Investigate how Caprine handles drag and drop events. The issue mentions that floating screenshots aren't received, only saved files. Look at the drag and drop implementation in Caprine's Electron main process or renderer process. Check if the event handler checks for file URLs on the clipboard; floating screenshots may be provided as a different data type (e.g., TIFF or NSImage). Research how Slack or other apps support this and implement similar handling.
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typescriptreactnodejs
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desktop
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2
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