We were just wandering, what’s with this odd silence about Dikk?
I mean, we’ve had over 1000 downloads in the first 3 days, surely, some of you must have tried it by now?! I mean, it’s a beta for pete’s sake! – we would love to hear what you think!
Or is it simply such an astonishing piece of masterly code that you are all still too stunned to put it in words?
Or…
I can’t figure out what Dikk does that iChat with bonjour doesn’t do. Maybe some more features are needed?
Hey guys – great app! My wife and I sit on opposite sides of a desk – our Macs are arranged back to back, so we face each other across the desk. This app is great when we want to quickly share something with each other! Now I don’t have to get up from my side of the desk to walk around to her side just to see something that she is looking at.
Dikk! is nice because we don’t have to initiate a full screen sharing session in iChat. One press of a button and she’s seeing what I wanted to show her!!
The only suggestion that I have (so far) is to add some of the functionality that is in the OSX app called Grab to Dikk!. Specifically, the options that Grab offers in the Capture menu:
Capture
Window
Selection
Screen
It would be cool to have a similar menu in Dikk! that allows me to choose what to transmit instead of only being able to send the active window. I’d love to see similar options in the Dikk! menu that allows you to choose to send the active window, a selected area of the screen, or the entire screen.
If “Window” is chosen, the active window is automagically transmitted (this is the only option in Dikk! as of now).
If “Selection” is chosen, a selection tool appears that lets me select any area of my screen. After the area is selected, it automagically transmits.
If “Screen” is chosen then the entire screen is automagically transmitted.
A user preference that allows me to set a default Capture option for the Dikk! hotkey would be nice too. I usually want to transmit a selected area, so it would be nice if I could tell Dikk! to default to the “Selection” capture mode when I press the Dikk! hotkey. However, my wife would rather send just the active window, so she could configure the Dikk! hotkey to default to the “Window” capture mode and send the active window by default (like it does now).
Your thoughts??
Oops, looks like you guys strip leading whitespace! The menu sample above should have been shown like this:
Capture
- Window
- Selection
- Screen
@kenton
You’re perfectly right, Dikk! does nothing that iChat couldn’t do. It’s just a very simple, very fast toy for exactly the one purpose that f00fighter describes so well.
@f00fighter
A thousand thanks to you and may all you wishes be granted likewise
You can use F3 to cycle through three capture options:
- current window
- full screen
- select window
Our good friend Ben deserves credit here
Doh! I can’t believe that I missed these options in the preference screen! My bad…
I’m glad to see that 2 out of my 3 requests are already handled by Dikk!
However, I’d still like to have the option to select a user defined area of the screen like Grab allows when you select Capture/Selection (as I described in my original e-mail).
Any chance you guys could make that happen?
Currently I am still forced to send an entire window (active or other), with a choice of active or other. It wo
Um…ignore this part of my last post “Currently I am still forced to send an entire window (active or other), with a choice of active or other. It wo”
I dunno what happened there…
Sometimes when i press the “Send to selected contacts” button the Screenshot doesn´t show the actual window but the window that i had opened before.
When the image viewer is openend and there is an incoming transmission and you close the image viewer, the accept message is gone. It seems to be still open, but hidden, because when you click browse images in the DIkk menu it appears for a second and then again goes away.
Sometimes new images don´t show up in the image viewer.
Dikk is a very cool app. Just needs some finetuning.
@jmar
Thanks for the input. I have had my doubts earlier about this, but your observation confirmed it for us – it seems that the transmission viewer is randomly dropping images. We’ll take a closer look at this.
We also have a few changes of our own we want to make in Dikk!, so I think we may be releasing a smallish update in the near future, to polish up on these things.
I look forward to the “smallish update”! Dikk! has become a great addition to the tools I use daily – thanks for this great little app! The one thing that would take Dikk! from Good to Great (for me at least) is an option to select a user defined area of the screen instead of an entire window (like the Grab tool in OS X allows when you select Capture/Selection).
@f00fighter
Sure, I certainly don’t see any obstacles to having this feature added. No promises just yet, but it doesn’t look too exhausting to code
That’s great news!
I look forward to the next release, and seeing this feature added in the future!
I appear to have downloaded the app and moved it to /Applications — launched it but have failed to get it do do anything:
(1) Menu bar item > New transmission produces a dialogue box with image of active window (as per Preferences) with top bar saying send your screenshot to: and an arrow or triangle at the bottom but no means of sending the thing to any user.
(2) Preferences > Contacts seems obtuse — a button to auto-accept from known contacts but no means of putting anything in Contact or Block (what that)
(3) Preferences > general reveals Service Name: and
Service Port: 2323
On initial launch a dialogue box complained about not being able to find (resolve? missed the full error) “molyneux”
Looks like not an app for me.
@Phil
I will be the first to admit that this beta release seems somewhat devoid of instructions on how to actually use the app.
We’ve have an intro screen for this, but looks like it didn’t get into the beta build. And even without this, I must agree that Dikk! is cruelly underdocumented.
I will make up for this, and create a wiki page for Dikk! as soon as I can.
I guess it’s a bit late, but just for the sake of information, I want to quickly explain that Dikk! needs to be running on all machines that want to send/receive images on the local network. Contacts are therefore fix: only those who have Dikk! running will appear there.
But agreed, the Contacts controls and prefs could be improved
I’m not sure what you men by point (3), and the error at startup is probably a bug.
Thanks for posting
downloaded and installed, but will not open now. Nothing happens when I double-click on the app.
Worse still when I go to trash it I can’t because it says it is open!
Thanks for forklift by the way
Ok, found the “tick” in the menu bar, and it works, but how do you move the icon along the menu bar so I can access it in other applications. I use Butler but this app seems so invisible it is hard to manipulate.
@crispin
Again, my apologies for the lack of info on Dikk!. Purely my bad.
The way Dikk! works is:
1. everyone who wants to send or receive transmissions through Dikk! must have the app installed and running.
2. Once you have started it, Dikk! will run in the background.
3. You can send screenshots to the people in the room using F1 (to everyone) or F2 (to selected people)
4. Receiving transmissions is automatic, you just need to approve the sender on the first transmission.
5. There are some options, including the choice of sending the active window/the entire screen/the selected window. You can set this using F3. There are a couple-three other options in Preferences (rightclick the Dikk! icon in the menu bar), but those are pretty self explaining.
Again, sorry for not including this info in the beta, but it was a rather hasty release.
Let me know how it turns out for you
Installed it on our 4 Macs, and it’s a good app that could maybe be more reliable. Sometimes we get an connection error message, sometimes it sends the LAST image you send when you press F1 or F2, sometimes it won’t send at all, sometimes it works like a charm
. The Idea is very good – Adium should have this feature, frankly. Not sure about the Cover-Flow thing, it’s weird that the image comes to you in a scaled-down size and you have to click to see it, maybe would be more handy to see the fullsize image directly. Still, for a beta, very nice stuff 
.
@HD
Thanks for your input.
I think we’ve nailed the issue with sometimes sending the last image or not sending at all, but the connection error is news to me.
Good argument for skipping the scaled down image. On my part, I sometimes don’t like the viewer being fullscreen all the time.
Still thanks a lot for the encouraging comments. Have a great weekend!
I just suffered from the issue where Dikk! *appears* to send the last screen shot taken. However, it turns out Dikk! was sending the images all along, but Dikk! on the recipient’s machine was stuck showing the last image. As we started to remove items from the cache on that machine the shots I had been trying to send began to appear. Looking forward to having this issue fixed soon.
Hey guys, it would be great if the recipient had the option to “turn off” the full screen, coverflow-esque viewer and opt for a simpler image viewer that just displayed the image with the usual (X) icon in the top left of the image. Take a look at the way Tweetie (a Twitter client for OSX) displays images from TwitPic as an example:
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Oops! I screwed up the link to tinypic, let’s try this one instead:
http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=sqs21j&s=5
(I wish I could edit my posts!)
Hi Everyone!
I am pleased to say I have finally found time to put together a sort of documentation for Dikk! in our wiki:
http://wiki.binarynights.com/index.php/Dikk%21
I’ve also created a User Forum to use in the future for discussing Dikk!
http://forum.binarynights.com/forumdisplay.php?f=6
Hope you’ll enjoy
Hey folks – when I try to install the 0.91b update (BUG FIXES!!!!), I get a message that it is improperly signed?
@HD & all
Sorry everyone. An update to Dikk! is imminent, but we’ve screwed up our dev signatures. It’s nothing long term, the update should be out and working by the end of the day.