Meazure is a versatile software tool designed to enhance screen interaction by providing magnification, measurement, screenshot capture, and color sampling capabilities for Windows users.
Key Features:
Screen Magnification: Zoom in on specific areas of the screen for precise viewing.
Measurement Tools: Calculate distances and angles between points with high accuracy.
Screenshot Capture: Save annotated screenshots for documentation or sharing.
Color Sampling: Extract and analyze color values from any point on the screen.
Audience & Benefit:
Ideal for users who require precise visual interaction, such as graphic designers, developers, or anyone needing accurate measurements or color analysis. Meazure helps streamline workflows by providing essential tools in one cohesive application.
Meazure can be installed via winget, making it easy to integrate into your system.
README
MeazureTM for Windows
Meazure is a tool for easily measuring and capturing portions of the screen. Tasks such as measuring the size of a window,
capturing an image, determining the color of a pixel, and determining the screen size and resolution can all be
easily accomplished using Meazure.
The Windows installer for Meazure can be downloaded from GitHub.
In addition to installing the program files, the installer configures the system to run the Meazure program.
This configuration includes:
Associating the file suffix .mea with the Meazure program
Optionally placing an icon on the desktop
User Guide
The Meazure User Guide is available online and is bundled with the
Meazure program as the help contents.
License
Refer to the LICENSE file distributed with this program
for details on the licensing of the Meazure program.
Building
Refer to Building.md for information on how to build Meazure from source.
Known Issues
To open a position log file saved by Meazure 3.0 using Meazure 2.0, edit the position log file and change the DOCTYPE
URL on line 2 from https: to http:. Position log files saved by Meazure 2.0 can be opened by Meazure 3.0 without
modification.
The position log file does not indicate if an angle is the supplemental angle.
Meazure now accommodates high DPI displays (e.g. 4K) and the DPI scaling often used with them. However, you must
restart Meazure if you change the DPI scaling while it is running.
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Enhancement: A more readable font is used for all dialogs
Enhancement: A menu item is provided to switch the angle display to show the supplemental angle instead of the
included angle. The sum of the included angle and the supplemental angle is 180 degrees.
Enhancement: A button is now provided to copy the contents of the color field to the clipboard. The button
is located to the right of the color swatch.
Enhancement: The CMYK color space is device dependent. Therefore, any conversion between the native RGB color
space and CMYK is an approximation without a color profile for the target device. This version of Meazure uses
a more conventional formula for approximating CMYK from RGB than was used in previous versions.
Enhancement: The HSL color display has changed. In previous versions of Meazure, the HSL values were normalized
between 0 and 240, which is unconventional and potentially confusing. In this release, the HSL values are
displayed conventionally with the hue value in degrees in the range [0, 360), and the saturation and lightness
values as percentages in the range [0, 100].
Fix: The YIQ color display now shows negative in-phase and quadrature values.
Leading zeros in all formats except hexadecimal have been removed. For example, the RGB value previously
displayed as "010 020 255" is now displayed as "10 20 255".
Fix: Meazure now reports the correct screen dimensions and measurements on high DPI displays (e.g. 4K display).
Fix: Meazure accommodates screen scaling. Note that you must restart Meazure if you change the screen scaling
(e.g. going from 100% to 150% scaling). To accommodate this, Meazure now reports the Windows default screen
resolution (96 DPI) as the default uncalibrated resolution. In previous releases, Meazure would query the operating
system at runtime for the logical resolution. However, that value is now the effective (i.e. scaled)
resolution, which is not appropriate for calculating measurements in resolution-dependent units (e.g. inches).
Fix: The Position log save dialog once again displays a text fields for specifying a title and description for
the log file.
Fix: Position log DTD defined the type for the desktop identifier and its references as ID and IDREF respectively.
This was incorrect because the identifier is a GUID, which can start with a number and that is not allowed for an
ID. The type has been changed to NMTOKEN, which allows a leading digit. Because the type is a superset of ID and
to support backward compatibility, the name and version of the DTD has not been changed.
Internal improvements
Migrated codesbase to C++17
Reorganized source code into subfolders
Extensive refactoring, renaming, and reorganizing of class functionality for testability and clarity
Increased unit test coverage
Use precompiled headers to greatly reduce build time
Use an XML writer class for writing the profile and position log files. This centralizes all formatting
and escaping of the XML.
Changes 3.0.1 to 3.0.2
Fix: Should not be able to paste numbers into readonly data fields.
Fix: Unable to cut, copy, paste in description field on position log dialog.
Fix: Typos in help content.
Changes 3.0 to 3.0.1
Fix: Not able to load position log files created by 2.0.
Changes 2.0.1 to 3.0
Supported on Windows 10 and above.
Requires a 64-bit system.
The minimum screen grid spacing has been reduced from 40 to 10 pixels and the maximum spacing
has been increased from 1000 to 4000 pixels.
Feature: The aspect ratio (i.e. width / height) is now displayed for the Rectangle, Window,
and Line tools. For the Line tool, the aspect ratio is based on the bounding rectangle.
Feature: The keyboard can now be used to position crosshairs. Pressing the Ctrl+1, Ctrl+2 and/or Ctrl+3
plus one of the arrow keys will move the corresponding tool crosshair one pixel. For example, pressing
Ctrl+1 and the Up arrow key will move the Point 1 crosshair up one pixel.
Feature: Hotkeys can now be used to position crosshairs to the current location of the mousr pointer.
Pressing the Ctrl+Shift+1, Ctrl+Shift+2, or Ctrl+Shift+3 moves the corresponding tool crosshair to the
current location of the mouse pointer. For example, if the Line tool is being used, pressing
Ctrl+Shift+2 will move the line's Point 2 crosshair to the current mouse location.
Changes 2.0 to 2.0.1
Publish Meazure as an Open Source project on GitHub under
the GNU General Public License.
Windows 98, ME, NT and 2000 are no longer supported.
Changes 1.0 to 2.0
Feature: A log of tool positions can be recorded and
saved. The position log can be reloaded and played
back. The position log file is in XML and the DTD
is distributed with the program and is also available
from the C Thing Software website.
Feature: An Angle tool has been added. Using this tool,
arbitrarily oriented angles can be measured.
Feature: A Circle tool has been added. Using this tool,
a circular area can be measured.
Feature: The user can define their own set of units.
Feature: Multiple monitor desktop configurations
are now fully supported.
Feature: The rulers can now be dragged across the
screen.
Feature: On Windows 2000 and above, the opacity can
be set on the rulers, crosshairs and data windows.
Feature: The origin of the coordinate system is now
indicated by a marker.
Feature: Additional color spaces are available for
expressing the color value of a pixel. In addition,
a text field is used to display the color so that
the color value can be copied to the clipboard.
Feature: Angles can now be reported in degrees or
radians.
Feature: The number of decimal places displayed for
each measurement in each system of units can now be
specified as a preference.
Feature: Tool crosshairs can now be toggled between
visible and hidden to aid in measuring small objects.
Feature: There are now menu items for zooming the
magnifier in and out.
Feature: Resolution calibration can now be done in
metric as well as english units.
Feature: A master reset is now provided to restore
the factory default settings.
Feature: Windows XP display themes are now supported.
Fix: A red rectangle no longer remains when changing
to another tool from the Window Tool using the Tools
menu.
Fix: Certain screen appearance schemes (e.g. Eggplant)
would cause the menu to wrap to two lines thereby
partially obscuring the magnifier zoom slider. This
has been corrected.
Fix: When copying a screen region the tool outline and
crosshairs were sometimes captured with the image. This
has been corrected.
A full-featured screen capture and recording tool, intuitive image editor, color picker, color palette, pixel-ruler, protractor, crosshair, whiteboard and more.
A full-featured screen capture and recording tool, intuitive image editor, color picker, color palette, pixel-ruler, protractor, crosshair, whiteboard and more.
A full-featured screen capture and recording tool, intuitive image editor, color picker, color palette, pixel-ruler, protractor, crosshair, whiteboard and more.
Rickrack (Real-time Color Kit) is a free color editor.
It is designed for generating a set of harmonious colors from color wheel or elsewhere.
You can share these colors with your friends, or apply them into your creative works.
Rickrack (Real-time Color Kit) is a free color editor.
It is designed for generating a set of harmonious colors from color wheel or elsewhere.
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