robburke.NET » presentations http://robburke.net Robert Burke's home on the web. Wed, 18 Apr 2012 19:15:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 NLarge v1.1.2 (once more, with feeling, multimon and text annotation support) http://robburke.net/2008/03/nlarge-v112/ http://robburke.net/2008/03/nlarge-v112/#comments Thu, 27 Mar 2008 06:15:45 +0000 Rob Burke http://robburke.net/2008/03/27/nlarge-v112-with-feeling-i-said-feeling-multimon-and-text-support/ NLargeBarry‘s teaching a course this week and noticed that NLarge didn’t support multimon – or rather, it always zoomed in on the primary monitor. So NLarge got another update. Good thing I don’t sleep!

Changelist:

  • Added Multimonitor support – zooms in on the monitor currently containing the mouse pointer.
  • Added Text support – annotate zoomed-in images with text by using the ‘T’ key

[Update 5 Apr:]

  • v1.1.3 – Fixed a bug in the multimonitor support that caused strange behavior after Hibernate/Restore

Download the update here on Codeplex.

]]> http://robburke.net/2008/03/nlarge-v112/feed/ 0 NLarge screen magnifier v1.1 http://robburke.net/2008/03/nlarge-screen-magnifier-v11/ http://robburke.net/2008/03/nlarge-screen-magnifier-v11/#comments Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:50:36 +0000 Rob Burke http://robburke.net/2008/03/25/nlarge-screen-magnifier-v11/ NLargeNLarge 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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