Glass II

Version 3.2.1
By Allen Gainsford

Glass II creates a small window which displays a magnified view of whatever is under the cursor.

• The view magnification can be from ¼× to 16× actual size.
• The view can be shown with or without an overlaid grid.
• The view window can be resized as required.
• The window may be a normal or a floating window.
• The magnified view, the cursor location or the current pixel color can be copied to the clipboard.
• Glass II can optionally show the cursor position (in screen coordinates), and the distance from any given point to the cursor position.
• Glass II can optionally show the color of the pixel under the cursor. The color can be displayed in a variety of different formats.
• The magnified view can be hidden, leaving a window that only displays the current cursor position and/or color.

Glass II is freeware. You can use it from now until doomsday and not pay me a cent. However, if you like it, or if you have suggestions, I'd like to hear from you.

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History

Version 3.2.1

• No longer requires multiprocessing support to be installed.
• Improvements to reliability under multiprocessing.

Version 3.2

• Added multitasking option (PowerPC only).
• Added options to change the display refresh rates.
• Added zoom-out functions.
• The magnification display may now be switched off, thus displaying just the cursor location, color, etc.
• Double-clicking switches from a normal to a floating window and back again.
• Added functions to freeze the display or measure distances from a location.
• Added functions to copy the cursor location, or the color under the cursor, to the clipboard.
• Keyboard equivalents for all copy operations, plus freeze and measure-distance, can be used when the program is in the background.
• Added a new dialog to set background keyboard equivalents.
• Now hopefully works with multiple monitors.
• Improved calculation and display of decimal values.
• Fixed a bug where an error could occur when resizing a window.
• Fixed a bug where the program did not respond to the required AppleEvents.

Version 3.1

• The window may now be either a normal or a floating window.
• Colors may be displayed as RGB, CMY, HLS or HSV values, each in a number of different formats.
• The layout for position and color displays has been revised.
• The grid and cursor hilight may be shown in black, in white or in inverted colors.
• The magnified view is refreshed periodically, even when the cursor is not moved.
• Available in PPC-native, 68K and Fat versions.
• Fixed a bug where the wrong magnification level was being ticked in the Scale menu.

Version 3.0

• The first public release of Glass II.

Legal Stuff

"Glass II" is copyright ©2000-2001 by Allen Gainsford. It may be distributed freely, except that it may not be distributed with any commercial product without the permission of the author. If you include "Glass II" in any (non-commercial) collection, please let me know. (Letting me have a copy would also be nice.)