Magnifying glass for Editor

This has quite low priority, but when zooming out far out of the filter tree it would be nice to have a magnifying glass/field around the mouse cursor so one could connect components precisely.

I think that I have seen some time ago a free software tool that made possible to have a loupe tool to be applied to ANY software that had small text or images and was activated by a hot key or shortcut.

I used it once long time ago, and was a good one and useful, but after I changed the computer last year I lost it.

I am sorry that I do not remember the name and where I have seen it but if I find it I will put it here

I have found this tool fow Windows that is called "OneLoupe 2.62" that shows a window with a big view to be able to make small things like sprite or icon painting, so it could be perhaps useful for this.

This is FREEWARE and DO NOT NEED INSTALLATION

http://www.softwareok.com/?seite=Microsoft/OneLoupe

Here is a video to show how it works

http://www.softwareok.com/?seite=Micr...e/RealTime

ANd here are the instructions on how to use it

http://www.softwareok.com/?seite=Micr...reenshot-1



You can enlarge the zoom from level 1 to level 9 and can make the loupe window bigger as you want it to fit what you need.

I have tried it with Filter Forge and it works in some way, I mean that you do not a clear preview because the graphics are too small and look pixelized but could work probably to find the link points on distant points

BUT I have a great problem, for me it does not show or is active the mouse pointer inside the new enlarged loupe window as shown in the video so I could work in the same way as normal but with the enlarged window loupe

Thx for the effort Spacey Ray!
I'll check it out.


edit:

You can actually click on things and pull connections when you switch to the workmode of the app. (F4)

Here are the .ini settings that work well for me:

[Program]
cx=300
cy=200
zoom=4.000000
zoom_mode=2
full_screen=0
window_border=1
close_by_mouse_down=0



Works reasonably well when not zoomed out too much.
I set a shortcut to activate the magnifying glass but it doesn't work reliably after repeated closing.
Problem is to end it, because you have to leave the workmode first to have mousefocus on the app or to klick at the taskbar.
Trying to killing the process with a shortcut didn't work either.