Iguidance 2.0 font size is killing me - Page 25

Marvin Hlavac · 07-19-2005, 04:25 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by Cheekz185

Hey Marvin, I just downloaded iGKeys. I am mainly just using it for CTRL + Q for the magnifier.

Ctrl+Q looks for window title "iGuidance", so I don't know how that would really work when iGuidance is embedded in a front end application. But if anyone wants I could put together a single purpose hotkey application just to open and close The Magnifier.

Open The Magnifier when you are using navigation, and close The Magnifier when you are using anything else. (Every time you open The Magnifier, it will be in the same place, same size, same everything. No need to configure it again and again ;-)

tj!2k4 · 07-19-2005, 04:40 PM

marvin, have you seen this open source magnifier? http://magnifier.sourceforge.net/

It is not suitable the way it is, but since it magnifies the screen underneath it, it would seem that with some modification (eg if the app could be modified to magnify a static offset location) this tool could be used to keep the magnified speed/etr display in the lower right-hand corner.

Any takers?

yes, sorry, i did mean marVin.

Marvin Hlavac · 07-19-2005, 05:12 PM

Yes, that one looks great, too. Actually yes, that one could be I guess easier to incorporate into a front end. But I'm thinking in my setup I wouldn't be able to keep it in the lower right corner, covering the existing ETA box, because at times I want to switch from ETA to REM, and sometimes I need to quickly check DEST. I know of no way to switch these functions, other than with a mouse click. An easy mouse click would not be possible if a magnifier covers the ETA box. Do various front ends provide a way to switch between these functions somehow?

I'm used to the T & V typo ;-)

tj!2k4 · 07-19-2005, 05:33 PM

Well.. if a coder was to take on this project, they could just make left-click on the magnifier send a mouseclick to the center of what's being magnified, and make a right-click close it..

0l33l · 07-21-2005, 04:59 AM

Zoom tool

Marvin Hlavac · 07-21-2005, 05:36 AM

Wow, very nice job! Would there be a way to get rid of the Title bar and make the borders either non-existent or at least a non-blue color (e.g. a lighter shade of grey).

P.S. I used to like your avatar, why this newly added frame??? LOL ;-)

0l33l · 07-21-2005, 01:04 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by Marvin Hlavac

Wow, very nice job! Would there be a way to get rid of the Title bar and make the borders either non-existent or at least a non-blue color (e.g. a lighter shade of grey).

P.S. I used to like your avatar, why this newly added frame??? LOL ;-)

Yeh, I originally made this program to be used in conjunction with SKINbedder, so I felt that I didn't need to remove the title bars

I'll add those features.

Frodo decided to mess with my avatar. I'll redo mine in a few days.

Cheekz185 · 07-21-2005, 01:06 PM

0l33l,

How do i focus in on a certain area of the screen? I cant seem to lock into where i want it to be magnifying.

0l33l · 07-21-2005, 01:17 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by Cheekz185

0l33l,

How do i focus in on a certain area of the screen? I cant seem to lock into where i want it to be magnifying.

Change the XY coordinates.

tj!2k4 · 07-21-2005, 04:55 PM

good job ol33l =)

0l33l · 07-22-2005, 03:02 AM

Updated with draggable version w/o borders. The server I host everything on is down... so I had to upload it to mp3car.

Marvin Hlavac · 07-22-2005, 06:27 AM

0l33l - great work! At this point I would likely rather recommend your creation, gZoom, to users of iGuidance, than the expensive Magnifier. Yours may be a bit more difficult to configure, but that needs to be done only once, and even that may be overcome by creating a list of common settings people can choose from based on their screen size & resolution, etc.

A couple of questions, if I may:

1. I was hoping that by setting zoom.ini properties to Read-only, gZoom would remember its position on the screen (just in case I accidentally move it a bit by my mouse). But when I set the *.ini to Read-only I keep receiving “Unable to write” warnings. Is there a way to lock gZoom to a desired location? (This is likely not easy.)

2. Would it at all be possible to eliminate gZoom from Windows Task Bar? (I don’t see Magnifier in the Task Bar.) But if this is at all impractical or difficult to implement, then don't worry about it a single bit. It's just fine the way it is.

Sonicxtacy02 · 07-22-2005, 08:39 AM

hey marvin or l33l0, can you think of a way to open and close this program with a hotkey? getting to open is alot easier than getting it to close lol. Anyway to do this thru girder?

Marvin Hlavac · 07-22-2005, 11:43 AM

Yes, I think a lot of similar applications could create a keyboard shortcut for you. I created one hotkey for you, if you want to try it. This hotkey not just turns On/Off gZoom by 0l33l, it also brings iGuidance to focus after gZoom starts, so you can control iGuidance with your keyboard to e.g. change zoom level, etc. It works fine when you run iGuidance without any front end, but I have no idea how it will behave if you use a front end, because I don’t use any.

Download: gZoomHotKey.exe

There is no installation necessary. Just download (right-click & select Save...)the small file to any location on your computer, e.g. Desktop, and run it. I set F12 key to be the hotkey, but if you wish a different key for that function, let me know.

* * * use at own risk * * *

EDIT: I forgot to mention that for the hotkey to work gZoom has to be placed in the Program Files folder, and the Zoom1 folder should be renamed to gZoom.

Program Files\gZoom

Sonicxtacy02 · 07-22-2005, 11:48 AM

thanks for that. I found a better way to manage it thru my front end and an app written specifically to close the gzoom.