microsoft / microsoft/ZoomitForMac
Capture Previous Screen Region
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- Swift
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Description
Use Case
Many users repeatedly capture the same area of the screen—for example:
- Monitoring logs or terminal output
- Capturing application windows during development
- Recording UI changes during testing
- Taking periodic screenshots for documentation
Currently, the region must be selected manually for every capture, even if it is identical to the previous one.
Proposed Solution
Add a new command (and optionally a configurable keyboard shortcut) named "Capture Previous Region" that:
- Remembers the last successfully captured region.
- Reuses that region for subsequent captures without displaying the selection UI.
- Updates the stored region whenever the user performs a new manual region selection.
Optionally, the application could briefly display the remembered selection outline before capturing to provide visual confirmation for Mac and Win.
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First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
No implementation files or tests are named. Start by locating the existing manual region-selection flow and command or shortcut registration, then trace how a successful region is stored and reused. Done means a new Capture Previous Region command reuses the last selected region, updates it after manual selection, and avoids the selection UI.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- swift
- Domain
- desktop
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 55/100