Virtual Magnifying Glass 3.4

Virtual Magnifying Glass 3.4
A free, open source, screen magnifier, for Windows, Linux, FreeBSD and Mac OS X.

PAGE CONTROLS : BLUE COLOR SCHEME | LIGHT TEXT ON DARK | DARK TEXT ON LIGHT

Microsoft® Windows® Vista, 2003, XP, 2000, NT, ME, 98 or 95
or a UNIX system running X11 (any Linux Distribution, FreeBSD, etc)
or Mac OS X 10.4 or superior
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
Multiple-display systems are not supported on Windows 95 (Magnifying Glass will be run in the primary display only)
On multiple-display systems, the magnifying glass may not display at the correct location if the monitors have a vertical offset between them.

Latest Features:

New, much improved dynamic mode for Windows 2000+! No longer requires DirectX or a special video card.
New, improved Mac OS X version, much smaller, no longer requires Qt.
Show the center pixel's RGB values, in both decimal and hexadecimal. Copy it with Ctrl+C
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
Variable scale factor from 1x to 32x
New configuration dialog to choose the plugin, Hotkey and other settings

Two actual screenshots:

Screenshot 1

Resources

, Punto Informatico, l'evoluzione della rete

www.GrOffice.info, open source distributions

Virtual Magnifying Glass is now part of the open source GROffice distribution.

InContrast: A website specifically for people who use a high contrast color scheme on their Windows desktop. InContrast helps users of high contrast color schemes identify software that will handle these color schemes. At present it is the only website on the Internet that seeks to offer this information.

The Screen Magnifiers Homepage. The leading resource for magnification solutions information on the Internet.

Braille Virtual. Braille Virtual is a on-line opencourse based on motion graphics and planned to teach Braille to those who can see. It is specially oriented for parents, children and teachers.

Web-Wise-Wizard - Internet Developers Toolbox. Excellent web, CSS resource.

MouseVision, Inc.: Electronic magnifier solutions for people with low vision, including Zoom-Ex the tiny, lightweight accessory that converts your computer into a powerful magnifier.

Download your free copy of the Magnifying Glass by clicking the link below, and choosing a download site closest to you if the download does not begin shortly:
Vmg3.4_install.exe for Windows 2000+ size: 2.5 MB
magnifier-3.3.2-1.i586.rpm Linux RPM size: 1.4 MB
magnifier_3.2.2-0_i386.deb Linux DEB size: 5.8 MB
magnifier-freebsd-3.3.1.tar.bz2 for FreeBSD size: 1.2 MB
Magnifier.app.zip for Mac OS X size: 1.5 MB
The latest Virtual Magnifying Glass is targeted for Windows 2000+, if you have an older Windows please download this release instead:
Vmg3.3.2_install.exe for Windows size: 780 kB
If you have an older version of Magnifying Glass installed, please uninstall it first by following the uninstalling instructions.
For other platforms and download options, please take a look at our download area.

BETA Feature - Dynamic Mode:

This allows the user to see the current desktop contents under the magnifier window. The user can also interact with the window under the magnifier (such as mouse, scroll wheel, keyboard, etc...). Use the following keys to move the glass while in dynamic mode:
IMPORTANT: If you are using Windows Vista or superior you need to make sure that Aero is OFF before using the Dynamic Mode. This is very easy, just go to the "Start Menu" and select "Run" and then type:
Rundll32 dwmApi #104
To turn it ON again run the following command: Rundll32 dwmApi #102

Ctrl + Alt + Arrow Up Ctrl + Alt + W	Moves the len up
Ctrl + Alt + Arrow Down Ctrl + Alt + S	Moves the len down
Ctrl + Alt + Arrow Right Ctrl + Alt + D	Moves the len right
Ctrl + Alt + Arrow Left Ctrl + Alt + A	Moves the len left

Upcoming Features:

See the list of upcoming features at the Feature Requests Page.
Also, log any requested Features there as well.

The program shows a magnifying glass lens that follows the mouse movement. You can move the lens around the screen to view magnification of any screen area. To close the lens, click the left mouse button.

Virtual Magnifying Glass also adds it's own system tray icon. Left-click on the icon offers a shortcut for launching the lens again.

Right-click the Magnifying Glass system tray icon to open the Magnifying Glass menu for various customization options.

[ ENTER ] or [ ESC ]	Hides the magnifier window
[ Q ]	Exits the software
[ Up arrow ]	Increase the lens height
[ Down arrow ]	Decrease the lens height
[ Right arrow ]	Increase the lens width
[ Left arrow ]	Decrease the lens width
[ W ]	Moves the len up
[ S ]	Moves the len down
[ D ]	Moves the len right
[ A ]	Moves the len left
[ PageUp ]	Moves the len up in big steps
[ PageDown ]	Moves the len down in big steps
[ B ]	Activates and Deactivates the graphical border
[ MOUSE WHELL UP ]	Increase the magnification in small steps
[ MOUSE WHELL DOWN ]	Decrease the magnification in small steps
[ + ]	Increase the magnification in small steps
[ - ]	Decrease the magnification in small steps

To set up a shortcut key for launching the Magnifying Glass on Windows® do the following (note: this may not work on all versions of Microsoft® Windows®):

Go from the Start Menu to the Magnifying Glass sub-menu (the place where you would normally start the Magnifier)
Right-click the system tray item of the Magnifying Glass
Check the option "Hot Key Invoke"
You can now use Ctrl+Alt+E to launch the magnifier

Right-click the Magnifying Glass taskbar icon.
Select Exit from the pop-up menu that appears

The Magnifying Glass taskbar icon disappears and it is safe to go to the Magnifying Glass sub-menu from the Start Menu and choose Uninstall Magnifying Glass.

On Linux or FreeBSD:

Depending on how you install the magnifier, there are different ways to uninstall it.

If you installed from a .tar package, open a terminal, change user to root and execute the "uninstall.sh" script issuing the "./uninstall.sh" command. The script can be found on the same directory as the script utilized to install the software, the folder created when you unpackage the magnifier3_beta.tar.gz file.
If you installed from a RPM package, open a terminal, change user to root and execute the commdn "rpm -e magnifier"

Introduction | Download | Getting started | Shortcut keys | Uninstalling | Support | Open source | Donations

This is not commercial software and there is no customer support. In case you received Magnifying Glass as part of a commercial software distribution, please turn to the provider of that distribution for customer support. Note that this web site functions as the user manual for the program, so the answer to your question may be found on this page.

~ Feedback and bug reports are appreciated! ~

You can use the Magnifying Glass project site at SourceForge to post bug reports and log feature requests.

To contact the author(s) directly try csodonnell at users.sourceforge.net

Introduction | Download | Getting started | Shortcut keys | Uninstalling | Support | Open source | Donations

Virtual Magnifying Glass is open source software. You are encouraged to carry on the development of this software. Visit the Magnifying Glass project site at SourceForge for further details and source code download. Drop some email to the administrators of the project if you have made some modifications/improvements you would like to get integrated and released with full credts to you.

To work with the Magnifier you need either Lazarus, an open source RAD IDE, or Borland Delphi and some Pascal and a little Delphi VCL knowledge. Knowing Win32 API and GTK+ 2 is also usefull.

To write plugins for the magnifier (such as the one that gives dynamic mode support), you will need some Win32 API and DirectX knowledges. Any language capable of writing DLLs under Windows should be enougth.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/magnifier

Introduction | Download | Getting started | Shortcut keys | Uninstalling | Support | Open source | Donations

The Virtual Magnifying Glass project is now accepting donations.

We have a mission of offering the best magnification tool possible for everyone, but some difficulties like the lack of adequate hardware and developers is holding the progress of the Dynamic Mode. So we launched this donations initiative to ask users to help us finally get this implemented.

Our initial target is receiving 500 Euros, which will be used to support the current developers in the development of this project.

As a bonus, the user may also specify a particular bug or feature request when donating, and we will try to get it included on our next release.

You can donate to this PayPal account:

felipemonteiro.carvalho at gmail.com

Current progress: 21% or 106 € from 500 €

If another donation method is prefered, such as bank transfer, please contact us. Thank you very much.

License

By downloading and/or using Virtual Magnifying Glass and/or the source code you acknowledge that you have read the license agreement below, understood it, and agree to be bound by it's terms and conditions. You also agree that the license agreement is the complete and exclusive statement of agreement between the parties and supersede all proposals or prior agreements, oral or written, and any other communication between the parties relating to the subject of the license agreement of Virtual Magnifying Glass.

        Virtual Magnifying Glass 
Version 3.4
Copyright © 1999 - 2010 Harri Pyy, Chris O'Donnell, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho.
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