NLarge is the screen magnification and annotation utility that I use for technical presentations. It magnifies the screen through a smooth animation, and allows you to pan and zoom around the magnified screen. You can annotate the magnified image using the mouse or a Tablet PC pen.
Today I added a few features to NLarge to respond to feature requests, and released version 1.1.
Here are the updated features:
- Removed glitching from start of zoom (hooray!)
- Added ability to change drawing pen colour and width
- Added a countdown timer
- Changed hotkeys from using Alt to Control to avoid conflict with Office 2007 default hotkeys
- Moved settings from the registry to a Settings file
- Updated solution to Visual Studio 2008 (leaving target .NET framework at 3.0)
NLarge is available for download from CodePlex. The code is all available there as well.
I noticed that since I last updated NLarge, its inspiration, ZoomIt, has been updated to provide a smoother zoom-in animation. However, ZoomIt still lacks NLarge’s smooth zoom-out animations, which is a shame, because I find the snap-out jarring and potentially disruptive. I believe NLarge adds to the professionalism of my presentations by not potentially losing the context of what I’m presenting before or after I draw the audience’s attention to something via a zoom.
If ZoomIt could just zoom smoothly in and out, I’d retire NLarge, but for now, I hope you enjoy v1.1.
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Posted Mar 25th, 2008
into Developer, Tech Events
with tags NLarge, presentations, screen magnifier
Cheers Rob – thanks for this – especially the countdown timer. It comes just in time for my first teach of my new LINQ class tomorrow. Thanks!
Barry – my pleasure, good luck and enjoy the course this week; should be a fun one to teach!
Thanks for the utility Rob…loving it already.