I was not really asked for it but I use LICEcap after having tested lots and lots of those animated gif capture programs.
I also use GIMP (not very convenient for animated gif but free) if I need to adjust pauses on some frames. Here this gif could use a big pause on the last frame. 
I also use Sizer to make my application window the exact desired size (gadget).
And by the way I am also interested to know which one @outsidecontext did use as well! 
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