Hijack Native Screenshots

[hacdias]

An idea: do like Dropbox on macOS and hijack the native shortcuts. It will be a bit hard to do but I believe it's doable. If there is no npm package for this, I'll work on one which will need to be a native module in C++... Well... But we can do it and I think it's a great idea. Then, see if it's possible on Windows.

What do you think?

/cc @olizilla @fsdiogo

[hacdias]

This reveals ti be more challenging than I thought. I created a Gist with the code I wrote so far. The main issue is that everything is running on the same thread and it seems the callback for the notifications is not being called. This would be easier written in Swift in a Native App. I'm wondering if it is worth it to keep working on this feature.

I find it funny I can't find anything in the web about integrating Obj-C in Node.js native modules. What do you think? The feature would be awesome, but to integrate it with Node.js doesn't seem to be straightforward.

[jonaharagon]

If it would be easier in the meantime, a keyboard shortcut to just upload whatever's currently in the clipboard would be an incredibly handy alternative to this. I take all my screenshots to the clipboard anyways so it'd just be one extra thing to do to share it if I needed to, and then it could be applied to other files as well, uploading copied stuff from the Finder, or even adding text in the clipboard to a txt file and uploading that.

[hacdias]

@jonaharagon uuh, that's a great idea! I like it 💡 What do you think @olizilla?