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Measure screen tool

Archive · 2008 9 old posts

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Thorsten ·

Here's a tool to make screen measurements in SM, only a few quirks left, but please report any you may find...

exonerate ·

Thanks for this, I can see this being a useful tool for positioning elements on the front panel.

I think the cross hair should be limited from going outside the area, and how about instead of the label for the coordinates being static why not have it as a pop up that follows the mouse around? So as your positioning the cross hair you can see the coordinates instead of having to look up to the top corner. Well maybe an option would be good for static or dynamic label.

Cheers 😉

Exo

Thorsten ·

exonerate wrote: Thanks for this, I can see this being a useful tool for positioning elements on the front panel.

Indeed, I made it because I needed to measure the height of some text though, and could image it would come in handy for other stuff as well 🙂

exonerate wrote: I think the cross hair should be limited from going outside the area, and how about instead of the label for the coordinates being static why not have it as a pop up that follows the mouse around?

The cross hair is only limited to above 0,0 because I figured you would just use the resizing of the box to get coordinates near it's edge, but I might follow your suggestion still, it's not like it's a pain to do.

Good idea about the label for sure, it should follow the cross around, and maybe stick to the lower right corner otherwise?

...I'll do that once I get around to it 😉

Cheers 🙂

Nu Audio Science ·

Brilliant 🙂

NAS

Thorsten ·

Updated version, probably final unless someone uncovers a bug...

The coordinate label now follows the cross. Use <SHIFT> to snap to grid coordinates and <ALT> to hide the coordinate label. Also added an extra module with editboxes for easy copy / paste.

Get the file in the first post. Now go measure stuff.

No, no one is interested in the size of ANY of your limbs in grid coordinates.

electrogear ·

Thorsten wrote: No, no one is interested in the size of ANY of your limbs in grid coordinates.

Haha, no, but I'd love to know the colour of your beard in RGB - it's the colour I'm trying to get for my next synth...

😉

By the way, good work 🙂

infuzion ·

Nifty 🙂

Thorsten ·

Thanks guys!

electrogear wrote: Haha, no, but I'd love to know the colour of your beard in RGB - it's the colour I'm trying to get for my next synth... 😉

Heh... Well it's somewhere between 66, 40, 24 and 115, 67, 41 I think 😉

etLux ·

Cool tool, Ernst!

Thanks much, I can really use this one!

My best,

David www.DavidSosnowski.com

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