Ruler

Package: WA2L/WinTools 1.2.08
Section: General Commands (1)
Updated: 20 January 2024
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NAME

Ruler - Screen Ruler (Yet Another Ruler)

 

SYNOPSIS

WA2LWinTools/bin/Ruler [ -h | -i | -u | -V ]

 

AVAILABILITY

WA2L/WinTools

 

DESCRIPTION

This application creates a Ruler on your screen which you can move around and use it to measure pixels and percentage of the Ruler length.

You can drag it around, size it, display additional lines or change its transparency.

 

Actions

Move the window by dragging it around, and size it by dragging the borders.

You can also move it with Cursor-Keys; holding Shift moves faster, and holding Control even faster.

Clicking the Window adds a marker line at the mouse position.

Right click for context menu.

Mousewheel to change transparency.

 

Keyboard

C
clear the lines.

O
toggle between horizontal and vertical orientation.

H
switch to horizontal orientation.

V
switch to vertical orientation.

P
toggle between pixel and percentages.

R
toggle between absolute and relative values.

Alt-F4
quit.

 

OPTIONS

-h
usage message.

-i
install the Ruler command to the 'Desktop'.

-u
uninstall the Ruler shortcut from the 'Desktop'.

-V
print Ruler version.

 

ENVIRONMENT

-

 

EXIT STATUS

0
no error.

4
usage message displayed.

5
version message displayed.

 

FILES

etc/Ruler.cfg
configuration file of Ruler.

 

EXAMPLES

-

 

SEE ALSO

wintoolsintro(1), config(1m), pmeter(1), https://github.com/praschl/Ruler/blob/master/README.md

 

NOTES

Ruler has been developed by Michael Praschl (https://github.com/praschl/Ruler/).

Parts of the documentation has been extracted from (https://github.com/praschl/Ruler/blob/master/README.md).

 

BUGS

-

 

AUTHOR

Ruler was developed by by Michael Praschl and integrated into WA2L/WinTools by Christian Walther. Send suggestions and bug reports related to the integration to wa2l@users.sourceforge.net .

 

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2024 Christian Walther

This is free software; see WA2LWinTools/man/COPYING for copying conditions. There is ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.


 

Index

NAME
SYNOPSIS
AVAILABILITY
DESCRIPTION
Actions
Keyboard
OPTIONS
ENVIRONMENT
EXIT STATUS
FILES
EXAMPLES
SEE ALSO
NOTES
BUGS
AUTHOR
COPYRIGHT

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