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| Enlarge Overview with a lens magnifier 12/04/2014 at 09:15 #58743 | |
maxand
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Screen magnifiers come in two types, full screen magnifiers and lens magnifiers. The latter are small windows which magnify part of the screen. The Overview window is great for single-screen players but often just that bit too small to make out details easily. Windows 7 Magnifier, like many other Windows accessories, is underfeatured and I find it difficult to use, so I thought I'd try out some others. Most were equally disappointing but I finally settled on Ed Halley's Dragnifier ("Quick Dragging Magnifier"). Donationware. If you have another favourite, please post details here. What I like about Dragnifier is that it is very easy to summon and release. The settings that work best for Overview seem to be: check Show a lens and select #2 (Small Lens), Magnify at 2x, check Hide regular mouse cursor. This will give you a small fixed-size frame with a green border that follows your mouse:  Two trains are marked with yellow arrows. You can opt for a larger window by selecting other lenses. You can dispense with the green frame by unchecking Show a lens, with this result:  To release, simply left-click or right-click and it's gone. Just another idea, not for everyone but makes it easier to identify trains and I find it becomes more useful with time. Last edited: 12/04/2014 at 09:37 by maxand Log in to reply |