Author Description:
This program is a semi-transparent on-screen ruler with keyboard shortcuts to help you lay out GUIs and Web pages or measure anything on your screen in 5 units. Right-click to learn the options and shortcuts. The ruler saves its settings upon exit, so it always looks the way you configured it last. The program comes with a built in uninstaller. It is safe for work, since it does not modify your registry. Version 2.0.1 has 5 units, more customization options and Web help.

Compatibility: All Windows, Win 98 through Win 7
License: freeware - see details at https://sites.google.com/site/rulerhelp ... on/license
No viruses as of 30 Nov 2009

Links:
Website: https://sites.google.com/site/rulerhelp/welcome/
Download link: http://onscreenruler.nfshost.com/WinRulerPortable.zip

Advantages - completely portable, lightweight semitransparent, shortcuts allow you to work using keyboard, has a "skeletonize" mode allowing you to see the desktop through the ruler. Web based help pages.
Disadvantages - simultaneous horizontal and vertical rulers not possible.

On-Screen Ruler 2.1.1.15 is now available in LiberKey

thank you very much - this is great news. merry christmas

Hello,

If you would be interested in translating On-screen Ruler into French (or other European language), please email me at onscreenruler@gmail.com. I will provide you with the strings that require translation in a text file and a link to the development version for context. There are 104 strings to translate.

Thanks in advance.

jk

Hello Onscreenruler,
I shall contact you (via your email) and undertake the translation into french.
Regards
Jack

En voyant onscreen ruler, je me suis dit, chouette, ça va m'éviter de lancer pickpick puis la règle associée

sauf que malheureusement, je constate qu'il y a des options (apparence, unités, calibrage) et qu'a la sortie rien n'est conservé, c'est dommage car du coup l'intérêt d'avoir une "règle" ou il faut tout re-régler a chaque fois fait justement perdre tout son intérêt.

A moins d'avoir rater un truc, j'espère qu'une prochaine version corrigera éventuellement ce problème

Hello Mike,

Please excuse my reply in English - I cannot write French though I can mostly understand your post.

I am not sure why your settings are not saved - the ruler always stores the latest settings in a file in your installation directory called "dat". If the ruler sees "dat" in the current directory, it loads the last-saved values from it, if not, it uses defaults.

One explanation could be if the installation directory is read-only, "dat" will never be created and the ruler will always start with the defaults. Another possible explanation could be that you are running the programme directly from the zip file without extracting/unzipping it? (another user did so and had the same problem) If so, "dat" would not be created and it would always start with defaults.

Hope this helps resolve the issue - I wrote the programme because no dedicated tool seemed quick and simple to me. Let me know at onscreenruler@gmail.com

John

mike007 a écrit:A moins d'avoir rater un truc, j'espère qu'une prochaine version corrigera éventuellement ce problème

Comme mentionné par John dans le message précédent, les paramètres sont bien sauvegardés dans le fichier dat.
Il faut quitter le logiciel avec la touche ESC

Peux-tu confirmer qu'il n'y a pas de sauvegarde à ton niveau ?

onscreenruler & opendev

Great, I knew that I had missed something... Quit by ESC touch to save configuration and not close simply the program
So the issue is resolved
10x

Thanks for pointing it out though - I will make the next version save settings even if you exit using the task bar.

Apparently the Esc to close feature is missed by a lot of users - I am afraid to put a button on the ruler because I kept hitting it by accident. Suggestions welcome.

John