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Hi,
I use Sharpcap dev version4.1.10885 for capturing solar images with the Sol'ex. It is particular as you have (in a loop) to quickly start an unlimited recording and a couple of seconds later stop it! Actually, the 'Stop recording' is difficult and long to reach it is very small and its location has to be 'searched' with the mouse from the center of the screen (where 'Start' was) ...
To greatly facilitate this operation could you set an option with new rather large buttons for 'Start' and 'Stop'?

It would work as written below:
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When pressing the new Start button for the first time, the 'Target Name' would be asked then a click on 'Start' will start the unlimited capture.
Automatically, the 'Stop' button would now take focus waiting for a mouse click or'Return'.
After the stop of the recording is done, the 'Start' button would automatically take focus, waiting for a mouse click or 'Return' and when occurring, will immediately start an unlimited capture with the same 'Target Name' as previously as if both Menu 'Start Capture' and then 'Start' had been pressed.
Automatically, the 'Stop' button would now take focus waiting for a mouse click or 'Return'... And so on until the large fast button option is disabled in the Menu or with an abort button ...
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Thanks a lot, this would save many mouse moves, mouse clicks, and more !

Hi,

thanks for the suggestion - I can understand how it would help in that sort of situation, but it also sounds like it might only be useful to a rather small number of SharpCap users

For customizations of this sort I'd often suggest using the Python scripting built into SharpCap to make a customized window that contains all the relevant buttons and controls - this requires some programming skills, but a number of users have made such tools, including one that performs multi-point polar alignment and another that automatically calibrates the GPS system on a QHY camera. If you visit the scripting subforum you will find out more about this.

If you are not into programming, then there are still things that might help - SharpCap has a number of keyboard shortcuts that will help carry out this sort of thing quickly, including Alt-S to start an unlimited capture and <Escape> to stop a capture in progress. You can see the full list here : https://docs.sharpcap.co.uk/4.0/#Keyboard%20Shortcuts

Hope this helps,

Robin