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Virtual Magnifying Glass Portable

Virtual Magnifying Glass Portable A free, open source, portable screen magnification tool.



  • Downloads:49
  • Last update:Jul 26, 2009
  • Version:3.3.2
  • License:Freeware
  • Publisher:John T. Haller
  • System Requirements Windows All

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Virtual Magnifying Glass Portable

A free, open source, portable screen magnification tool.
Virtual Magnifying Glass was designed to be a free, open source, portable screen magnification tool. It is simple, customizable, and easy-to-use.



 


Main features of Virtual Magnifying Glass Portable:

  • Display current magnification factor
  • Invert colors
  • Show the center pixel's RGB values, in both decimal and hexadecimal.
  • New user setting: borderless magnifier window (can help performance with older video boards)
  • Multi-monitor support
  • Lens height up to 1024 pixels
  • Lens width up to 1600 pixels
  • Mouse scroll-wheel now controls zoom factor
  • Esc key closes magnifier window
  • Crosshairs now have tickmarks for scale factors at 4x and above
  • 1x scale factor: allows to user to quickly compare a magnifier image with the original
  • 1.5x scale factor: helps with screen reading
  • Added 3x scale factor
  • Hotkey shows/hides the magnifier (currently hardcoded to CTRL-ALT-e)


    Requirements of Virtual Magnifying Glass Portable:

  • 800x600 or higher screen resolution and at least 16-bit colors recommended
  • A good display adapter and CPU recommended for smooth performance
  • Multiple-display systems are supported on Windows 98/ME, Windows NT4/2000/XP
  • On multiple-display systems, the magnifying glass may not display at the correct location if the monitors have a vertical offset between them


    What's New in This Release:

  • Experimental Dynamic Mode added
  • Show the center pixel's RGB values, in both decimal and hexadecimal.
  • Multi-monitor support
  • Lens height and width can have any size
  • Mouse scroll-wheel now controls zoom factor
  • Esc key closes magnifier window, but it remains on systray. Q key closes the software
  • Crosshairs now have tickmarks for scale factors at 4x and above
  • Variable scale factor from 1x to 32x in
  • New configuration dialog to choose the plugin, Hotkey and other settings
  • A list of which features are currently available on the Linux version can be found on the README file distributed with it.

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