section capture does not work or instructions unclear

[Mike Palmer]

Shutter 0.87.2 Rev.1071

Looks like this could be a powerful tool

windows section capture does not work
 or maybe it's just theta instructions are unclear

it failed for this person too -

  http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/shutter-%E2%80%93-the-best-screen-capture-software-in-linux/
    Section
     This function supposedly allows you to select a section of the window. Despite trying it out several times, I still do not
      understand how it works. Hopefully the developer can provide more documentation on this section.

Yes, more info is needed.

Thank your for the development

[Mario Kemper (Romario) (mario-kemper)]

In summary, this functionality does no longer work as designed, because of changes in Gtk. All necessary information can be found here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/shutter/+bug/444358

It used to work like this:
1) select a window
2) select a piece inside it - like a button, the toolbar, or a text area.

For some windows (Firefox, Virtualbox) it still works which is the reason to keep it in the main program. See this video (Firefox works, Terminal does not work): http://dl.dropbox.com/u/961086/section.ogv