sw33tLie/macshot v4.0.0

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Added

• Screen recording — record MP4 or GIF with configurable FPS (up to 120fps), system audio + microphone capture, annotation drawing during recording, and mouse click highlighting. Pause/resume support with gap-free output. Audio merge dialog for dual-source recordings.
• Webcam overlay — live camera feed bubble during recordings. Circle or rounded rectangle shape, four corner positions, three sizes. Camera device picker via right-click.
• Keystroke overlay — show pressed keys on-screen during recording. "Shortcuts Only" vs "All Keystrokes" modes.
• Recording countdown — configurable delay timer before recording starts.
• Video editor — standalone window for trimming, exporting, and uploading recorded videos. Timeline thumbnail strip, arrow key frame stepping, Copy button.
• Editable annotation history — screenshots save raw image + annotation data alongside the composited image. Editing from history reopens with live, editable annotations. "Done" button commits changes back to the same history entry.
• Lasso marquee selection — hold Shift and drag on empty space from any tool (including pencil/marker) to select multiple annotations at once.
• Shift+Click multi-selection — hold Shift and click annotations to toggle them in/out of the selection. Drag moves all selected, Delete removes all selected, color changes apply to all.
• Annotation copy/paste (Cmd+C/V) — copy selected annotations and paste as duplicates. Works with multi-selection.
• Annotation outlines — outline toggle + color picker for arrows, lines, rectangles, ellipses, and number tools.
• Custom beautify backgrounds — use any image as the beautify background with optional blur slider. 6 new gradient styles.
• Apple Translation (on-device) — translate on-device using Apple's Translation framework on macOS 15+. Faster, offline, and private. Auto-detects source language.
• Smart marker mode — OCR-based text detection snaps the marker to actual text lines. Vertical pill cursor with dynamic sizing.
• WYSIWYG drawing cursor — pencil and marker tools show a live dot preview matching exact stroke size and color.
• "Open from Clipboard" hotkey — configurable global hotkey to open clipboard image in editor.
• "Also open in Editor" option — quick capture performs the action AND opens the editor.
• "Do nothing" Quick Capture mode — capture without copying or saving; decide later via thumbnail.
• Customizable overlay/editor tool shortcuts — all tool shortcuts configurable in Settings.
• Pencil smoothing modes — 3-mode selector: None, Smooth (Chaikin), Refined (moving average + Chaikin with zero input lag).
• Beta update channel — opt-in pre-release builds via Sparkle.
• WebP image opening — open .webp files for editing via menu, Finder, or drag-to-dock.

Changed

• Text tool uses standard annotation chrome — text annotations show the same selection UI as shapes (resize handles, rotate, delete). Double-click to re-enter editing.
• Unified Censor tool — Pixelate, Blur, Solid, and Erase modes merged into a single toolbar button. Erase mode samples surrounding colors for seamless fills.
• Click-to-select annotations — click any annotation with any tool to select it and edit properties in real time. Pencil/marker use long-press to avoid interfering with drawing.
• Recent Captures panel — horizontal scrolling thumbnails with filter tabs, right-click context menu, drag-and-drop.
• Pixelate annotations — now movable, resizable, and reorderable. Re-bakes from original screenshot.
• sRGB color profile — proper pixel value conversion for accurate colors matching native macOS screenshots.
• Renamed Preferences to Settings — all user-facing references updated.

Fixed

• Blurry screenshots on mixed-DPI setups — direct CGImage extraction preserves exact pixel data regardless of display.
• Pre-macOS 14 capture corruption — uses CGWindowListCreateImage on macOS 12–13 instead of raw memcpy.
• Capture delay on macOS Tahoe — pre-warm SCShareableContent cache, reducing 2-second delay to near-instant.
• Focus returns to previous app after capture — overlay dismiss re-activates the previously focused application.
• Purple selection border no longer appears in recordings — UI chrome excluded from SCStream capture.
• Recording pause/resume produces gap-free video — paused time subtracted from timestamps.
• Light mode toolbar readability — toolbar and popovers force dark appearance for consistent contrast.
• Scroll capture reliability — complete engine rewrite with CPU-backed frame comparison, Vision-based offset detection, and incremental stitching.
• Multi-select drag works in text tool mode — text tool no longer blocks dragging multi-selected annotations.
• Pencil/marker shift-constrain — straightening now anchors from where Shift was pressed, not the stroke origin.