Very neat tool! I would prefer, however, if the copy the file path to clipboard feature was added into Cropper itself if that is possible. I know you dont control that code, but maybe you can talk to Brian. Mainly because I would prefer to be able to choose my output format (I much prefer Png over Jpeg for screen shots... smaller file size and much cleaner output). This could be written into the mantis plugin, of course, but you would just be adding menu items below the mantis output menu item that list all the other output types, which seems redundant. (hopefully that makes sense)

There is another great free software which offers this functionality - Screenshot Captor ( http://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Mouser/screenshotcaptor/index.html ). Ability to copy screenshot path to clipboard is a built-in feature since v2.13.01 (so you don't have to install any plugin, just check it in preferences) and it allows to choose output format as kgrubbs requires.

This is really neat. I do think PNG format would be better.
Also some tools (commercial ones, like TechSmith's SnagIt) are able to capture scrolling windows (like big webpages) into one single image, which is very useful.

New feature request! How about something that allows us to take a snapshot and forward that directly into a new mantis ticket?

I've been keeping an eye on FogBugz, and there's a similar tool available for it that sits in your Tray just like Cropper does. Select it when you want to snap an image, and the image you snap becomes part of a new ticket. 90% of the bugs my team enters would begin this way, so that makes a lot more sense to me rather than cutting and pasting an image.

Of course past this point I'd include two avenues to take the shot, one keystroke like F6 that would create the ticket when I took the snapshot, and F7 when I want to add to an existing issue. For F7, just ask for the ticket number, or a list of the most recent issues.

If it is any help I have found (MWSNAP)http://www.mirekw.com/winfreeware/mwsnap.html

is a very useful screencapture tool.

It also can auto copy to clipboard.

Great tool, unfortunately still no way for a screen shot tool to get the shot directly into Mantis :<

Attached Futureware.Mantis.Cropper.3.zip which includes the following:

1. It works with Cropper v1.9.1.
2. Extract the files in the zip archive into "C:\Program Files\Fusion8Design\Cropper\plugins" folder.
3. Run Cropper and select "Send to Mantis" under the "Output" menu.
4. Select "Options", "Plug-ins" and select "Send to Mantis", then configure the Mantis details. A sample URL:
   http://www.example.com/mantis/api/soap/mantisconnect.php
5. Now take snapshots with Cropper and it will ask you about the issue number to attach the snapshot to, will show up the subject and will allow typing in a note to be added with the attachment.

I would love to get feedback on this tool in terms of functionality and usability.

Well - I have MantisBT 1.0.8 installed. Works fine.
Today I downloaded MantisConnect 1.0a5 and installes all applications included with it (.Net apps) works fine. But when I wanted to user Cropper I got:

"mc_issue_attachment_add" not defined in service.
I listed available services (in WSDL) at mc/mantisconnect.php and there is no such thing.

Did I miss something in configuration??

Download Mantis 1.1.0rc2 and copy the api/soap folder contents on top of your current mc folder. Do a backup first :)

This is looking awesome! How about creating a new issue? Uploading to an existing one work great.

Hi!
I have Mantis 1.1.0rc2 and .NET Framework 2.0. MantisConnectUrl, MantisUserName and MantisPassword assigned correctly. But any MantisConnect application (Cropper, MantisFilters, etc.) show me following:
---8<--
System.Net.WebException: The request failed with HTTP status 417: Expectation Failed.
at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol.ReadResponse(SoapClientMessage message, WebResponse response, Stream responseStream, Boolean asyncCall)
at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol.Invoke(String methodName, Object[] parameters)
at Futureware.MantisConnect.MantisConnectWebservice.MantisConnect.mc_config_get_string(String username, String password, String config_var)
at Futureware.MantisConnect.Request.ConfigGet(String config, String& str)
at Futureware.MantisConnect.Config.Get(String config, String& str)
at Futureware.MantisConnect.Config.Get(String enumerationName, MantisEnum& enumeration)
at Futureware.MantisConnect.Config.get_StatusEnum()
at Futureware.MantisConnect.Session.Connect()
at Futureware.MantisFilters.MantisFiltersForm.MantisFiltersForm_Load(Object sender, EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.Form.OnLoad(EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.Form.OnCreateControl()
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.CreateControl(Boolean fIgnoreVisible)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.CreateControl()
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmShowWindow(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.ScrollableControl.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.ContainerControl.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Form.WmShowWindow(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Form.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)
...
-->8--
Please, tell me, what I make wrong?

Thanks in advance!

Probably this helps others:

First I had all the problems above when using an older Mantis version and the Mantis Connector in a custom mt/ folder from here: http://www.futureware.biz/mantisconnect/

Now with it being built in into Mantis 1.1.0rc2 these errors are gone.
So vboctor is right, just download this release and update the api/soap folder contents with these new files.

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However I still get this error when trying to upload:
"Upload Folder '' doesn't exist."

(I have it all setup like in the dokus the newsest Mantis 1.1.0rc2 and Cropper v1.9.1 with Futureware.Mantis.Cropper.3 plugin)

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Zander, if you paste the MantisConnectUrl to the browser what do you see? It should look like this one:
http://www.mantisbt.org/bugs/api/soap/mantisconnect.php

mcraig88, I am thinking of adding the feature to allow for reporting new issues rather than just supporting attaching screenshots to existing issues. The issue here is to identify the fields that should be settable when reporting such new fields. However, the feature will be added when I do more work on this tool.

tronics, are you able to attach screenshots to Mantis through the web interface? Is the upload folder set for the project you are attaching the issue to? Do you have the default upload filter set in the configuration?

Thanks for your feedback but I couldn't yet resolve this issue.

tronics, are you able to attach screenshots to Mantis through the web interface?
Yes it works perfectly.

Do you have the default upload filter set in the configuration?
Yes no changes here.

Is the upload folder set for the project you are attaching the issue to?
See above it works through web interface. I'm not aware that I should add an uploadpath to the project and how to do that.

:(

vboctor, yes, I see the same. For example:
---8<---
Name: mc_version
Binding: MantisConnectBinding
Endpoint: http://www/mantis/api/soap/mantisconnect.php
SoapAction: http://www/mantis/api/soap/mantisconnect.php/mc_version
Style: rpc
Input:
use: encoded
namespace: http://futureware.biz/mantisconnect
encodingStyle: http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/
message: mc_versionRequest
parts:
Output:
use: encoded
namespace: http://futureware.biz/mantisconnect
encodingStyle: http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/
message: mc_versionResponse
parts:
return: xsd:string
Namespace: http://futureware.biz/mantisconnect
Transport: http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/http
Documentation:
--->8---
May be, my namespace is wrong?
Thanks for help!

::Zander::
I had the same problem getting the "Upload Folder '' doesn't exist.".
Fortunately I could get rid of it, see the steps below.

1., I kept on getting the "Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class soapclient in F:\Program Files\xampp\htdocs\mantis\api\soap\nusoap\nusoap.php on line 7240" message, when trying to access: "http://localhost/mantis/api/soap/mantisconnect.php" - it was beacuse of php tried to reinitailize the "soapclient" class, so i had to rename the class to "soapclient_" in the php code on line 6407. It can not be used anymore, but doesn't seem to be needed.
2., On the admin-pane under "[ Manage Projects ]" you have to set the "Upload File Path" for each project. [I would think, this setting is missing on your side, otherwise the "Upload Folder '' doesn't exist." error message would contain the project's upload folder.]
3., The project's file upload folder is needed, 'coz "$wwwroot$\mantis\api\soap\mc_file_api.php" on line 77 (in function "mci_file_add()") checks wether the upload path given at the project does exist on the server or not. [which is quite strange, 'coz the uploaded file gets stored in the database, instead of getting written in the project' upload file path]
So, now you have two choices:

• in case of not wanting to modify your code, you have to create the project's file upload path under "$wwwroot$\mantis\api\soap\nusoap\" (so the "mci_file_add()" can check its existence) and you have to set "api\soap\nusoap\$previously_created_upload_directory$" for your projects
• or you can modify "$wwwroot$\mantis\api\soap\mc_file_api.php" on line 77 with this: $t_file_path = "../../$t_file_path"; - from now each project upload path can be set to "$previously_created_upload_directory$" in that case the upload directories can be put under "$wwwroot$\mantis\"

it worked on my side,
hope it helps

::vbdoctor::
started using the thingy just today, it's amazing!

Is there a way to set it up to communicate through a proxy(isa) server? Or do You plan to develop an interface for configuring http connection?
Setting up the ISA-server, user, password would be great!

1)
When I enter the ID into the popup I get an error

<Fehler bei der Anforderung mit HTTP-Status 400: Bad Request.>

as it tries to fetch the bug note

2) also looking at the apache error logs I get something like

[Tue Nov 20 18:57:31 2007] [error] [client 1.2.4.8] request failed: erroneous characters after protocol string: <?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\"?><soap:Envelope xmlns:soap=\"http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/\" xmlns:soapenc=\"http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/\" xmlns:tns=\"http://futureware.biz/mantisconnect\" xmlns:types=\"http://futureware.biz/mantisconnect/encodedTypes\" xmlns:xsi=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance\" xmlns:xsd=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema\"><soap:Body soap:encodingStyle=\"http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/\"><tns:mc_issue_get><username xsi:type=\"xsd:string\">myuser</username><password xsi:type=\"xsd:string\">mypassword3</password><issue_id xsi:type=\"xsd:integer\">9</issue_id></tns:mc_issue_get></soap:Body></soap:Envelope>POST /mantis/webservice/mantisconnect.php HTTP/1.1

Any idea what's going wrong here?

I tried disabling mod_security, but that didn'T help

see screenshot at
CropperCapture[10].jpg [^] (24,421 bytes) 2007-11-20 13:09

Some errors are solved with: 0008695

is there a way to inegrate it inside Mantis?
i mean...can we somehow have a link called Cropper andwhen we click on it it opens up/activates Cropper and then we can send the screenshots to mantis?

Works great, nice tool. But I agree it would be nice to be able to create a new bug.

What about this option: To give an option to copy the link to file the bug report page that is not yet saved. This should be relatively easy to do with

1. specifying the browser being used or
2. Firefox plugin

????

Really nice :-)

Cropper 1.9.1, Mantis 1.1.1

Followed instructions as per note 15917 and it works; leaving the dialog open long enough causes the issue summary to be retrieved, and the screenshot DOES get appended to the Mantis issue.

However, after clicking the "OK" button in Cropper, I get a messagebox with the title "Failure" and the words "Access Denied". Does anyone know what the cause of this is?

Hello,
Great pluggins Victor Boctor !
whith the mantis 1.1.1 when using Disk attachement method we have an error message "Upload folder XXX doesn't exist.", And I think it's because the bug 8695 is resolved.
Thanks

IF you enter an optional note....

1.1.1: Works
1.1.2: Fails because bugnote_api.php:bugnote_add references an undefined variable ($p_send_email) at the end of the function.
1.2.0a2: Fixes this with a new function parameter ($p_send_email).

I added the parameter locally to my 1.1.2 setup and it now works as expected.

Jmoger, could you be more accurate?

What does it mean: "I added the parameter locally to my 1.1.2 setup"???

Thanks

Gôm

I found the answer by myself! ;-)

http://mantisbt.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/mantisbt/branches/BRANCH_1_1_0/mantisbt/core/bugnote_api.php?r1=5370&r2=5407

Source: http://www.mantisbt.org/bugs/view.php?id=9309#bugnotes (last note)

1.1.2 Function Header which is missing the $p_send_email parameter (Line 102):
The missing parameter is referenced on line 167.
http://mantisbt.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/mantisbt/tags/RELEASE_1_1_2_20080617/core/bugnote_api.php?annotate=5370

My bad about this being fixed in 1.2.0a1. Its fixed in 1.2.0a2.

Trunk Function Header which includes the $p_send_email parameter (Line 107):
http://mantisbt.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/mantisbt/tags/RELEASE_1_2_0a2_20080804/core/bugnote_api.php?annotate=5494

I've a problem.

I can upload to mantis, but when I want to download file...error

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SYSTEM WARNING: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at F:\wamp\www\mantis\file_download.php:172)

also thumbnail didn't work

the content of jpg file is:
<p style="color:red">SYSTEM WARNING: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at F:\wamp\www\mantis\file_download.php:172)

Even I am facing the same problem as Piccolobill.

I have used three different Croppers to attach images to mantis. I am able to attach the images in all three, however, when I download the image it is blank with just <Ñ displayed.

I guess it is some parsing error where the api is unable to handle jpg or png images.

Any updates?

Solution:

The Mantis SOAP API expects the attachement to be encoded before attaching. Therefore, when you try to download it from the Hyperlink, it decodes the attachment and displayes on our screen.

When we use a Cropper, the cropper does not Encode the Image when attaching to the bug using Mantisconnect, therefore, when we download it, its decodes the un-encoded file, thus returning garbage value <N or x within the file.

Tweak:

Change the following lines within .\api\soap\mc_issue_attachment_api file

#Existing:
return mci_file_add( $p_issue_id, $p_name, base64_decode( $p_content ), $p_file_type, 'bug' );

#Modification
return mci_file_add( $p_issue_id, $p_name, $p_content , $p_file_type, 'bug' );

Thus now if you try to attach any file using the cropper, it would attach correctly.

Cheers

IT WORKS!!!!
Thank you!

@nusrath:
I had the same problem on 1.2.0, and your modification fixed it for me aswell.

Thanks alot.

Hi, this looks great, but we really need the ability to add a new bug directly from the tool. Is there any chance you would release the source to the plug in?

Thanks very much for the hard work.

Thank you!

I need to save picture in PNG. Can it?
Why file name should be entered twice?

Hi,

we just tried to get it to work with Mantis 1.2.0rc1, but it always says
<Der Objektverweis wurde nicht auf eine Objektinstanz festgelegt.>
(Object link not set to an object.)
in the issue summary, when we try to upload.

Can anyone confirm that the plugin still works with mantis >=1.2 and cropper 1.9?

I can use Cropper with 1.2.0, but are unable to use it with 1.2.3 and 1.2.4

It is about misformed XML: 0x1A is a invalid character: Line 19, position 1.

How can this be solved?

Anyone. We heavinly rely on the use of Cropper, and this is preventing us to update.

I sponsor this if someone could solve my problem!

Finally ( with thanks to Tim Schoondergang of TimmiT.nl ) the solution is found.

Problem is in function mci_file_add in mc_file_api.php:

The last value in line 119 should been quoted:

$query = "INSERT INTO $t_file_table
(" . $p_table . "_id, title, description, diskfile, filename, folder, filesize, file_type, date_added, content)
VALUES
($c_id, '$c_title', '$c_desc', '$c_disk_file_name', '$c_new_file_name', '$c_file_path', $c_file_size, '$c_file_type', '" . db_now() . "', '$c_content')";

We actually should have something less dependant of Windows/.net

We have mantis running in LINUX platform, does this plugin be customized to work?

Also, a link to initiate the image capture would be of great help.

Can someone point me out where I should look for the code responsible for adding a Note from Cropper to Mantis. It is added as 'private' and I would like to add to Note as 'public'.

Hi,
The plugin isn't working for me. It gives an error saying Access denied. Can you release the plugin as open source so that I can look into it. More over I would also like to append it to report new issues.