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[Screen Ruler]: Add "Anchor", "Zoom", "Hold" and "Screenshot" features to the ruler #31335

Open Skubers opened 8 months ago

Skubers commented 8 months ago

Description of the new feature / enhancement

"Anchor" feature would help with counting the amount of pixels between two fixed points. image Currently I have to create a screenshot of the place where I want to check the distance, draw the "anchors" manually and then use the ruler to see the distance. The feature would make the process very easy and quick.

"Zoom" feature would zoom into a portion of screen, so that you could put an "Anchor" (from above) much more precisely on 1080p, 1440p and 4K screens

"Hold" feature would save the position and number that is appearing on the tooltip, so that it appears all the time. You could then check the distance in the other place and compare both of the distances. Useful for making comparisons

"Screenshot" feature would make a screenshot of what is appearing on the screen, including the "Anchors", "Zooms", "Holds" and other tooltips with their pixel distance counts

Scenario when this would be used?

Being a software tester, we often used MS Paint to point out any inconsistencies in padding and in centering of UI elements. This would make our work and work of many UI-related workers much easier.

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copdips commented 8 months ago

this is what we have in zoomit from sysinternals, but it would be nice to integrate it into powertoys.