Rooler
I'm always working on random projects, usually simple utilities to make my life just a little easier. One of my latest projects has been Rooler, a collection of utilities for measuring and analyzing on-screen graphics. I've been doing lots of pixel tweaking stuff on Expression Blend these past couple of weeks and I decided to put something together that would help out. A lot of the inspiration for this came from the really cool OSX-only application xScope- if you're a Mac user then I'd definitely suggest giving it a try.
Anyways, what is this Rooler?
It measures the spacing of graphics:
The size of graphics:
It magnifies:
And it works on any graphics on your screen. HTML, Silverlight, Flash, photos, whatever. As long as it renders on your monitor. Plus there's more. And more crazy ideas to come.
Check out the Rooler site.
posted by Pete Blois at 5/02/2009
6 Comments:
A neat little tool. One problem seems to be lack of multi-monitor support. The Rooler toolbar appears on my primary monitor and any tool selected works only while the mouse pointer remains on the primary monitor. If moved off the primary monitor the tool is not available on the secondary monitor and when moving back to the primary monitor the tool is still unavailable and must be selected again from the toolbar.
very nice work!
i m with 'craniac' about the multi-monitor.
Yeah, multi-mon is very high on my list. I did some refactoring not too long ago to get closer to supporting it but am not quite there yet.
Nice tool. Came here to mention multi monitor problem but can see it's been covered.
Also wanted to give some feedback on Snoop which I find invaluable.
If you revisit it, can you fix two issues, set the SnoopUI window Topmost (helps when the target is topmost as well!). Also if the target application has a TextBlock style in App.xaml this gets applied to Snoop (mine used a White Foreground so I couldn't see anything!).
Thanks
1. Can you make the Rooler not black?
2. Can you make the Rooler not position itself at the top-center of the screen? It conflicts with my remote desktop bar.
Awesome tool. Thanks
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