Quax"> ]> Claudiu Costin

claudiuc@kde.org

Vlad Oancea

xtrim@fx.ro

Quax skin designer 2001 2002 2003 Claudiu Costin Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the Appendix. 2003-11-15 0.1.0 This handbook describes &quax;, a neat desktop magnifying tool for web developers and graphic artists. It's also good for short sighted people. magnifier desktop graphic web desktop X Windows Qt KDE &quax; is a desktop zooming tool intended especially for web developers, but is very handy and friendly for newbies. There are few other tools for this task: XMag, KMag and KZoom. All of them are full featured applications and take some time to figure how to use them. On the other side, &quax; is very easy to use and have an appealing user interface. You can visit the &quax; web site at http://www.ro.kde.org/quax/. &quax; interface &quax; interface &quax; view on the KDE desktop &quax; can be used both by mouse and keyboard. While mouse may be an intuitive usage for regular users, the keyboard usage is a plus which speed up the work for professionals in web and graphics computer field. In the circular display area it zoom a rectangular region pointed by it's red arrow. &quax; can be freely moved on the desktop surface by simply dragging it. Press down the &LMB; mouse button and start moving the mouse. When you positioned it to part of screen desired, release the mouse button. For precise positioning you can use cursor keys to move it pixel by pixel to desired direction. If you keep &Shift; key pressed down while using cursor keys, the it is moved with 10 pixels steps. Moving &quax; &quax; can be moved freely over desktop &quax; can be moved freely over desktop Because &quax; zoom on bottom-left region, there are desktop places which cannot be reached in default appearance: top-left corner, top-right corner, bottom-right corner, top margin and right margin. This problem is resolved by changing the direction where &quax; "look at" and is made by rotating it. The left rotation and right rotation can be performed in three ways. If you use mouse extensively and your mouse have wheel, then press down &Ctrl; key and move mouse wheel. Moving wheel forward will rotate &quax; to counter-clockwise (to left). Move wheel backward and &quax; will rotate clockwise (to right). If your mouse don't have wheel or is not activated for use, then you can still use the menus. Press &RMB; mouse button and &quax; menu will show up. Then choose Look AtRotate Right or Look AtRotate Left menu items. The fastest way to rotate &quax; is using keyboard. Press L for left rotation and R for right rotation. Rotating &quax; many times back and forward can be time consuming when it is used extensively. For that reason, there are keyboard shortcuts and menu items which will point &quax; to desired direction: north-east, north-west, south-east, and south-west. See the Keyboard operations section. Rotating &quax; &quax; can be rotated left or right &quax; can be rotated left or right The main function of &quax; is to enlarge regions of your desktop. You cam choose between 5 zoom levels. The zoom in and zoom out can be performed in three ways. If you use mouse extensively and your mouse have wheel, then move mouse wheel. Moving wheel forward will increase the zoom. Move wheel backward and &quax; will decrease the zoom. If your mouse don't have wheel or is not activated for use, then you can still use the menus. Press &RMB; mouse button and &quax; menu will show up. Then choose ZoomZoom In or ZoomZoom Out menu items. The fastest way to change zoom level is to use keyboard. Press - (minus) for zoom out and = (equal) for zoom in. Alternatively you may want to use _ (underscore) and + (plus). Zooming Desktop regions can be zoomed in and out Desktop regions can be zoomed in and out Many times a web developer see a color which should in be used in HTML pages which he is working at. The colors are easily spotted when desktop area is enlarged as happen with &quax;. There are some applications which can pick any color on desktop, but these operate at pixel level so will be very hard to pick right color when details on screen are high or there are many similar colors around desired color. You have three methods to pick a color: using &quax; menu, using color tool tip and using keyboard shortcut. Whenever you press &RMB; mouse button, the color picker function is activated. This way, right before &quax; menu is shown, the color at mouse cursor position is picked. The Color menu item will associated icon as a square colored with color taken at mouse cursor. The Color submenu contain three items which display the current color in different representation: comma separate decimal numbers, HTML hexadecimal with lowercase letters and HTML hexadecimal with uppercase letters. When you select one of these items, the color text representation is copied to system clipboard. The second method use the mouse and is more versatile. To activate it press down &Ctrl; and &Shift; modifier keys. Mouse cursor will change as "crosshair" and a tool tip will be shown near the cursor. The tool tip contain a square colored as current color under cursor and a color text as HTML hexadecimal representation. You can freely move the mouse to see other colors in &quax; area. When your happy with color under mouse cursor, press the &LMB; mouse button. The cursor will change for short time as "resize" cursor and lowercase hexadecimal representation of color is copied to system clipboard. When you use first method there's a chance that you may inadvertently move the mouse position because you press &RMB; mouse button. If you only need to get the HTML lowercase hexadecimal representation of color, then you may press &Ctrl;C to copy the color under mouse cursor to system clipboard. Picking a color Picking a color from &quax; area Picking a color from &quax; area &quax; use many keyboard shortcuts to speed up user experience as much as possible. For casual users there's popup menu which show up when you right click on &quax; surface. Cursor keys Quax move pixel by pixel in cursor key direction &Shift;Cursor keys Quax move with 10 pixels step in cursor key direction ZoomZoom In = ZoomZoom In + Increase zoom level ZoomZoom Out - ZoomZoom Out _ Decrease zoom level Look AtRotate Right R Rotate Quax to right Look AtRotate Left L Rotate Quax to left Look AtNorth-West U Rotate Quax to zoom at North-West Look AtSouth-West J Rotate Quax to zoom at South-West Look AtNorth-East I Rotate Quax to zoom at North-East Look AtSouth-East K Rotate Quax to zoom at South-East Copy Colorcolor &Ctrl;C Copy the color at the mouse (pointer) current position Help H Open the help window Quit Q Quit Quax Many operations can be made with mouse. Some of them, only with the mouse. Zoom Simply rotating mouse wheel will change zoom level in or out. Move the wheel forward and zoom level increase. Move the wheel back and zoom level will decrease. Rotate If you keep pressed down &Ctrl; key and rotate the wheel, then Quax will rotate as well. Move the wheel forward and Quax will rotate counter-clockwise. Move the wheel back and Quax will rotate clockwise. Move To move it click with the &LMB; mouse button on the Quax surface and then drag. When you get it where you want, release the mouse button. Operations menu &RMB; click on the Quax surface and while keeping mouse button pressed down, select a menu item and then release the mouse button. Observe the shortcut combinations on the right side of item menu name. Color Tool Tip To pick up the color for magnified pixels, keep &Ctrl; and &Shift; buttons pressed down. Mouse cursor will change to "cross hair" cursor shape. A tool tip will popup at the mouse cursor which display a colored square and hexadecimal web representation for color. The tool tip follow the mouse cursor when you move it as long you keep &Ctrl; and &Shift; down and pointer is inside Quax. If you press the &LMB; mouse button, the current color is copied into clipboard using HTML hexadecimal format with lowercase letters. For a short time (click duration) mouse will change to "size all" cursor shape. Zoom Open the Zoom submenu where you can directly choose zoom levels or increase/decrease the current zoom level. Look At Open the Look At submenu where you can choose direction where &quax; look at to zoom. Copy Color Open the Color submenu where you can choose what text color will be copied to system clipboard. H Help Show the &quax; documentation. About Quax Display an message box with information about &quax; version, license, and authors. About Qt Display an message box with information about Qt version, and license. Q Quit Quit &quax; application. Main menu &quax; main menu &quax; main menu Zoom1:2 Set zoom level to 1:2. Zoom1:3 Set zoom level to 1:3. Zoom1:4 Set zoom level to 1:4. Zoom1:5 Set zoom level to 1:5. + ZoomZoom In Increase zoom level - ZoomZoom Out Decrease zoom level Zoom menu &quax; zoom menu &quax; zoom menu Look AtNorth-West U Rotate &quax; to zoom at North-West Look AtSouth-West J Rotate &quax; to zoom at South-West Look AtNorth-East I Rotate &quax; to zoom at North-East Look AtSouth-East K Rotate &quax; to zoom at South-East Look AtRotate Right R Rotate &quax; to right Look AtRotate Left L Rotate &quax; to left Look menu &quax; look menu &quax; look menu Here you have three menu items. When you select one of them, the text shown on menu item label is copied to system clipboard. That way you can pick the color under mouse cursor and make the text representing color available to other applications, usually HTML editors. Copy Color menu &quax; Copy Color menu &quax; Copy Color menu &quax; Program copyright 2003 Claudiu Costin claudiuc@kde.org Documentation copyright 2003 Claudiu Costin claudiuc@kde.org Special thanks for Vlad Oancea xtrim@fx.ro who made the Quax skin. Special thanks for my wife, Iuliana Costin, who allowed me to spend countless hours to work on Linux and KDE. Icons are borrowed from KDE Project. This documentation is licensed under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License. This application is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License. &quax; web site is hosted on SourceForge servers and can be reached at: http://www.ro.kde.org/quax/ Source code and binaries distributions can be downloaded from: http://www.ro.kde.org/quax/download.html Because &quax; is a 100% Qt application. It can be compiled on any platform where Qt was ported. At the moment it is supported out-of-the-box with scripts and conditional compiling to the following platforms: Linux with Qt 3.x GPL or better Windows with QT 2.3 for Non-Commercial-Use For Linux you need to have GNU C++ compiler and associated tools. To regenerate the user documentation you need to have meinproc from KDE 3.1. To regenerate the reference documentation from source code you need to have Doxygen. To compile &quax; under Windows you need Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0 and Qt 2.3 for Windows for Non-Commercial-Use. Compile and install with the usual: % ./configure % make % make install Last command must be run as root user. Open a DOS window running command.com under Windows 95/98/ME or cmd.exe under Windows NT/2000/XP. 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