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Icarus · Joined: 24 Nov 2005 Posts: 408

Well,

To share some of my own magnifier experiments, this is something a little different and much simpler, but it does the trick for me.

The primary thing I dont like about the MS magnifier, is the fact that it is too stupid to move the window when my mouse goes inside it (in windowed mode - hate the docked)

So, I thought WinMove would be simple enough to do, only the MS magnifier remembers its location and goes back to it - so, the way I found to be working was to simulate as if the user dragged it, with the mouse.

Run MS Magnifier, in windowed mode, then run this script.

It will move the magnifier window whenever the mouse is inside it.
This makes it much more usable to me.

Newpie · Guest

Hello, I admire this zoomer script, good work. I have a simple script I use for work, but I would like to use this zoomer script at the same time as my other scripts.

My basic question is how do I combine my scripts I have already with this script into one so that I may turn on and off the Magnifier script with hitting a button like F10. Is this possible?

GOAL: I would want the "Magnifier script" to be imbedded with my other scripts so I can keep Autohotkey running in the background and just turn on and off the zoomer as necessary in my work.

Thanks for everyone's help in advance.

newpie · Guest

I figured out how to do it. Thank you for everyone's time. I do have some other questions, but don't pertain to the magnifier script so I will post in other areas of the forum.

newpie · Guest

Hello I have a quick question. How do I change the script in order for it to let me use the mouse on my dual monitor. It won't let me drag my mouse over to the other dual monitor. My main monitor is on the left side and my secondary monitor is on the right side.

GOAL: I need to drag my mouse to the right sided screen and see the box on the left hand side screen.

I appreciate any help

newpie · Guest

Hello, is there anyway to this magnifier to work on a dual screen? I posted a question before this one. I appreicate everyone's help.

Icarus · Joined: 24 Nov 2005 Posts: 408

I dont see a reason why not.
Let me check it, stand by.
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Ok, as it turns out I do not have access to my triple monitor computer now, but, I took the code from the previous page which seems to be a nice implementation, and I do not see anything in the code that should prevent it from working on your entire desktop.

I saw that some of the original postings used A_ScreenWidth (which is considering only the primary monitor) so this is why the version you were using did not work (the magnifier got stuck to the primary monitor right?)

So, for your convenience, I am posting the code that looks good here, let me know if it works ok for you, and if not - tell me whats not working.

Code taken from a post by ivanw

tic · Joined: 22 Apr 2007 Posts: 1318

Is the 1 I posted for you not what you want newpie?

newpie · Guest

Hello I appreciate your post and I can definitely use it. Originally when I posted I tried a program that showed the picture of what was being magnified in a separate box and when you moved the mouse it moved a separate box which magnified the object.

The problem was that the magnification mouse box(the one that you can move with your mouse) doesn't go on the second monitor attached, only the prmary monitor.

I am not sure how to fix it. Thanks for your help and time.

The code is below:

newpie · Guest

Don't worry about fixing the code that I mentioned right before this post, I think I like how the other code works anyway (where the zoom box moves with the mouse)

Thanks anyway

Icester · Guest

Awesome bit of work. Just 2 questions regarding the holomind's original code (or variants):

1) Is there a way to capture the "window" contents to the clipboard? My IrfanView capture screen will not capture the contents of the GUI window. Sad

2) Is there a way to make it work with multiple monitors? I know that you use SysGet instead of A_ScreenWidth, but what about monitors with different resolutions?

Thanks.

automaticman · Joined: 27 Oct 2006 Posts: 300

? Can this be used to build an image slide show presenter with dynamic zoom in/out effects (+ additional fades) and ready would be nice slideshows based on your images.
? How many variants do we have now of this original code? Is the first in the thread "the best"?
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holomind · Joined: 11 Mar 2006 Posts: 299 Location: Munich, Germany

automaticman · Joined: 27 Oct 2006 Posts: 300

Thanks for the clarifications.
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automaticman · Joined: 27 Oct 2006 Posts: 300

I like Nostalgic screensaver, now I need a version which is free from being a screensaver. (Ideally also supporting the command line.)
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canadaman123 · Guest

Hey, I wasn't able to read all posts between the first pages and here at the end, so this may have already been covered. I liked holomind's version seen here, but it lacked dual monitor support. I've added that feature with the following:

SysGet, TotalScreenWidth, 78
SysGet, TotalScreenHeight, 79

...then just changed out A_ScreenHeight and A_ScreenWidth with those vars:

Repaint:
MouseGetPos x, y
xz := In(x-Rz-6,0,TotalScreenWidth-2*Rz) ; keep the frame on screen
yz := In(y-Rz-6,0,TotalScreenHeight-2*Rz)

Thanks for this great script!