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I hope future versions of windows does a better job with the
magnifier. The one in 7 really is not very easy to use, while it magnifies the screen, having to pull it around is clumsy. I would like to see one of these two features in later versions. Either normal window what will expand at a click point or what I would really rather have is a 4x3 inch mouse pointer window that only magnifies what is inside the window. |
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On 07/12/2017 02:40 PM, Seymore4Head wrote:
I hope future versions of windows does a better job with the magnifier. The one in 7 really is not very easy to use, while it magnifies the screen, having to pull it around is clumsy. I would like to see one of these two features in later versions. Either normal window what will expand at a click point or what I would really rather have is a 4x3 inch mouse pointer window that only magnifies what is inside the window. I just change the screen resolution and/or increase the font size. Got me several geriatric customers who wank four inch letters. |
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T wrote:
On 07/12/2017 02:40 PM, Seymore4Head wrote: I hope future versions of windows does a better job with the magnifier. The one in 7 really is not very easy to use, while it magnifies the screen, having to pull it around is clumsy. I would like to see one of these two features in later versions. Either normal window what will expand at a click point or what I would really rather have is a 4x3 inch mouse pointer window that only magnifies what is inside the window. I just change the screen resolution and/or increase the font size. Got me several geriatric customers who wank four inch letters. There used to be video drivers that supported "pan and scan". You could set the resolution to 1600x1200, on a machine with a 1280x1024 screen. You would be shown a 1280x1024 portion of that desktop, and as soon as your mouse pointer touched the edge of the screen, the x,y origin of the slice you were looking at would be adjusted. You could then "slide" around inside a larger desktop, which has the appearance of being "magnified". And that mode is smooth as butter. Now, the question would be, does that work with any brand of video ? Or only certain brands ? It seemed to work with SIS chipset video, and I think I managed to get that mode to work here once (on non-SIS), but I can't remember what I was trying at the time. I think there is some option in a video driver to "list unavailable resolutions", and it's possible you can select the "out-sized" desktop that way, causing the driver to use the "pan and scan" mode. Paul |
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On Wed, 12 Jul 2017 15:31:05 -0700, T wrote:
Got me several geriatric customers who wank four inch letters. That must be funny grin. -- Protect your civil rights! Let the politicians know how you feel. Join or donate to the NRA today! http://membership.nrahq.org/default....ignid=XR014887 Gun control is like trying to reduce drunk driving by making it tougher for sober people to own cars. |
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Seymore4Head wrote:
I hope future versions of windows does a better job with the magnifier. The one in 7 really is not very easy to use, while it magnifies the screen, having to pull it around is clumsy. I would like to see one of these two features in later versions. Either normal window what will expand at a click point or what I would really rather have is a 4x3 inch mouse pointer window that only magnifies what is inside the window. CTRL and + will make the letter bigger. CTRL and -, smaller. This is true in both Windows and Linux. I don't know about Apple. |
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On Thu, 13 Jul 2017 09:37:07 -0400, slate_leeper
wrote: On Wed, 12 Jul 2017 15:31:05 -0700, T wrote: Got me several geriatric customers who wank four inch letters. That must be funny grin. There's a fetish for everything, it seems. -- Char Jackson |
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On Thu, 13 Jul 2017 15:40:49 +0200, Jack Fate
wrote: Seymore4Head wrote: I hope future versions of windows does a better job with the magnifier. The one in 7 really is not very easy to use, while it magnifies the screen, having to pull it around is clumsy. I would like to see one of these two features in later versions. Either normal window what will expand at a click point or what I would really rather have is a 4x3 inch mouse pointer window that only magnifies what is inside the window. CTRL and + will make the letter bigger. CTRL and -, smaller. Alternatively, hold down the Ctrl key and scroll the mouse wheel. For both methods, this is a Windows standard and works in most, but not all, applications. |
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On 07/13/2017 06:37 AM, slate_leeper wrote:
On Wed, 12 Jul 2017 15:31:05 -0700, T wrote: Got me several geriatric customers who wank four inch letters. That must be funny grin. Oh no! Usually my typos are just annoying. Hopefully there are not a lot of British readers on this group! :'( |
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Ken Blake wrote:
I hope future versions of windows does a better job with the magnifier. The one in 7 really is not very easy to use, while it magnifies the screen, having to pull it around is clumsy. I would like to see one of these two features in later versions. Either normal window what will expand at a click point or what I would really rather have is a 4x3 inch mouse pointer window that only magnifies what is inside the window. CTRL and + will make the letter bigger. CTRL and -, smaller. Alternatively, hold down the Ctrl key and scroll the mouse wheel. For both methods, this is a Windows standard and works in most, but not all, applications. True. I should have said "almost all". |
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On Thu, 13 Jul 2017 09:33:55 -0700, T wrote:
On 07/13/2017 06:37 AM, slate_leeper wrote: On Wed, 12 Jul 2017 15:31:05 -0700, T wrote: Got me several geriatric customers who wank four inch letters. That must be funny grin. Oh no! Usually my typos are just annoying. Hopefully there are not a lot of British readers on this group! I'm not British, but I know the word. The funny thing is that I didn't see the typo when I originally read your message, I didn't see it when slate_leeper grinned at it, and I didn't see it when I first read your message above. I had to reread it multiple times before I saw it. I'm a terrible typist and I make many typos. But the k key is far from the t, so that one looks like a kind I am very unlikely to make. I usually hit a key next to the one I want, omit a letter, reverse a pair of letters, or double the wrong letter. |
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On 07/13/2017 09:58 AM, Char Jackson wrote:
On Thu, 13 Jul 2017 09:37:07 -0400, slate_leeper wrote: On Wed, 12 Jul 2017 15:31:05 -0700, T wrote: Got me several geriatric customers who wank four inch letters. That must be funny grin. There's a fetish for everything, it seems. The 'o' key, as in loooooooooooosee. -- "Moral indignation - jealousy with a halo." [H.G. Wells] |
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On 07/13/2017 01:04 PM, Ken Blake wrote:
On Thu, 13 Jul 2017 09:33:55 -0700, T wrote: On 07/13/2017 06:37 AM, slate_leeper wrote: On Wed, 12 Jul 2017 15:31:05 -0700, T wrote: Got me several geriatric customers who wank four inch letters. That must be funny grin. Oh no! Usually my typos are just annoying. Hopefully there are not a lot of British readers on this group! I'm not British, but I know the word. The funny thing is that I didn't see the typo when I originally read your message, I didn't see it when slate_leeper grinned at it, and I didn't see it when I first read your message above. I had to reread it multiple times before I saw it. I'm a terrible typist and I make many typos. But the k key is far from the t, so that one looks like a kind I am very unlikely to make. I usually hit a key next to the one I want, omit a letter, reverse a pair of letters, or double the wrong letter. A lot of my types are keys next to keys, but a lot of them there is no explaining. I do double proof read my stuff, but I think I see what I see. And mistakes like these do not show up until I hit send. Then EVERYTHING shows up. Mumble ... |
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On Fri, 14 Jul 2017 16:26:05 -0700, T wrote:
A lot of my types are keys next to keys, but a lot of them there is no explaining. I do double proof read my stuff, but I think I see what I see. And mistakes like these do not show up until I hit send. Then EVERYTHING shows up. Mumble ... Same here! |
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On 07/14/2017 04:45 PM, Ken Blake wrote:
On Fri, 14 Jul 2017 16:26:05 -0700, T wrote: A lot of my types are keys next to keys, but a lot of them there is no explaining. I do double proof read my stuff, but I think I see what I see. And mistakes like these do not show up until I hit send. Then EVERYTHING shows up. Mumble ... Same here! I have an idea which will make me rich. It is a "take back button". Press the button and it erases anything stupid you said or wrote for the last 10 minutes. Can't figure out how to do it yet. I would make a bazillion dollars off of husbands alone. |
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In message , T writes:
On 07/14/2017 04:45 PM, Ken Blake wrote: On Fri, 14 Jul 2017 16:26:05 -0700, T wrote: A lot of my types are keys next to keys, but a lot Typos (-: of them there is no explaining. I do double proof read I've sometimes found I've used homophones - sometimes even including the ones that I think "uneducated" when others use them, like their for there or they're. my stuff, but I think I see what I see. And mistakes like these do not show up until I hit send. Then EVERYTHING shows up. Mumble ... Same here! Here too (-:. Send or print. I have an idea which will make me rich. It is a "take back button". Press the button and it erases anything stupid you said or wrote for the last 10 minutes. Can't figure out how to do it yet. I would make a bazillion dollars off of husbands alone. (-: on the "said" and husbands aspect! As it happens, the news/email software I use does nor post/send for a brief time - about a minute IIRR - after you click Post or Send; IIRR, for exactly this reason: you can open and edit (or delete) any email that's still in the outbox. (It can be overridden if you want something to go out now, but most of the time a minute doesn't matter.) I can't remember if I've used it to retract something I've said (though since I've been on usenet since KA9Q days, I probably have), but I've occasionally used it to add/change something I've thought of subsequently. I think there _may_ be other news/email clients (or in the case of Thunderbird addons) that offer a similar facility. -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf I hope you dream a pig. |
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