Version 3.6 available

Harri Pyy — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 16:07:39 -0000

This version brings as its most distinctive feature a much sharper magnification in Mac OS X and Linux. This should increase the usability of the magnifier for inspecting text and other small details. An anti-aliasing option is also provided and will in the future be improved. This new version can be downloaded from our Files section. Currently the Mac OS X version is available and soon the Linux one will be uploaded. This version will not feature a Windows download because there were no improvements for Windows this time, which is the opposite of the last version, 3.5, which was released only for Windows. Windows users should continue with 3.5 for now.

Virtual Magnifying Glass v3.4 released

Harri Pyy — Wed, 26 May 2010 13:34:01 -0000

Virtual Magnifying Glass is designed for visually-impaired and others who need to magnify a part of the screen.

This is a major release which features as the most imporant features a new, much improved dynamic mode which should work on any computer with Windows 2000+ without requiring DirectX or a special video card. Just choose "Use Plugin" and then "Show the magnifier" to activate it. Move the dynamic mode glass using Ctrl+Alt+arrows

Changes since the last release:

* New, much improved dynamic mode for Windows 2000+! No longer requires DirectX or a special video card.
* New, improved Mac OS X version, much smaller, no longer requires Qt.
* New translation: Turkish
* Improved existing translations
* Disabled plugin change for now, it is fixed in the new dynamic mode

You can download it from:

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=60638

More information on:

http://magnifier.sourceforge.net/

Virtual Magnifying Glass v3.3.2 released

Harri Pyy — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 16:04:13 -0000

Virtual Magnifying Glass is designed for visually-impaired and others who need to magnify a part of the screen.

This is a bugfix release with many minor changes, althougth some progress on the dynamic mode was also achieved, but only for some video cards. We would like the next major release, v3.4, to have a fully working dynamic mode.

Changes since the last release:

* Improved mouse wheel handling

* Much improved Mac OS X support

* New translations: Russian, Polish, Japanese

* Improved existing translations

* Improved dynamic mode plugin

* New plugin: videocard_checker, checks if the video card supports the dynamic mode

* Many fixes for the Linux Gtk2 version

* Added cursor position to graphical tools

* The Windows configuration file is no longer in the application directory, but rather in the local configurations path of the user. Allows execution of the software without write access to the application directory.

You can download it from:

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=60638

More information on:

http://magnifier.sourceforge.net/

Virtual Magnifying Glass v3.3.1 released

Harri Pyy — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 20:12:27 -0000

Virtual Magnifying Glass v3.3.1 released

Virtual Magnifying Glass is designed for visually-impaired and others who need to magnify a part of the screen.

This is a bugfix release with many minor changes. Big changes, like improvements on the dynamic mode are scheduled for the next major release, 3.4.

Some new things on v3.3.1
* The first experimental Mac OS X release. Completely native to this operating system, and with an application bundle to be easely installed and started.
* When a new version of the magnifier is started on Windows it will check if it is already running, and in this case it will ask the running version to display itself, instead of opening a new copy. Implemented through semaphores
* Added a new configurations dialog where one can choose the plugin to be loaded and the hot key
* bug fix: The hot key is now initialized when the software starts
* Made the about box adjust itself to resize on the width

Translations:
* New Polish translation
* Updated the french translation from Jean-Claude
* Small update to spanish translation
* New Italian translation
* New russian translation

You can download it from:

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=60638

More information on:

http://magnifier.sourceforge.net/

Next release planned for end of Dec 07

Harri Pyy — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 02:21:26 -0000

Hi all,

I would like to release the next version of VMG end of Dec 07. I plan to have fixes / better support for Dynamic Mode Full Screen.

I have promised many features over the last year and half, but haven't delivered yet, for that I apologize. Fortunately we have sekelsenmat and a new developer keeping this project moving. But I must make good on my commitments. I still firmly believe in this great project (as well as the OSS philosophy) and want to make VMG even better.

Many thanks,
-Chris O

Version 3.3 for FreeBSD released

Harri Pyy — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 06:57:51 -0000

We are happy to announce that a FreeBSD maintainer was found, and we now have a FreeBSD build for the latest version of the Virtual Magnifying Glass.

You can download it by following the download link on our website, or on our download area on the source-forge page.

thank you for your attention,

The magnifier now accepts donations

Harri Pyy — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 12:48:24 -0000

Hello,

The Virtual Magnifying Glass project is now accepting donations.

With more then 300.00 downloads, the Virtual Magnifying Glass has a very large user base, but still we lack developers in key areas which could greatly improve the product.

We expect to use any donations we receive to sponsor the development of the software in areas such as:

* Improve the Dynamic Mode under Windows
* Implement a Dynamic Mode for X11 platforms (Linux, FreeBSD, etc)

Any development done with the help of donations will of course be freely available for all users, and use the same GPL license as the rest of the software.

You can donate to this PayPal account:

virtualmagnifyingglass@gmail.com

Please don't send e-mails to this address. Use the forums, or the e-mails of the developers to ask questions.

We expect to make a transparent management of the donations, with periodical reports. The periodicity isn't yet decided, as we do not yet know how much would be donated, or if anyone would donate at all.

Having said that, any donations, even very small ones are welcome =)

thank you for your attention,

FreeBSD maintainer wanted

Harri Pyy — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 07:33:42 -0000

Hello,

We just found out that the old FreeBSD maintainer doesn't work with this operating system anymore, so we are looking for a new maintainer.

The FreeBSD binaries were a huge success, surpassing in download numbers the Linux port, and it would be a petty to have no-one to maintain it, specially when the work to be done is very easy. It doesn't require programming knowledge, just knowing how to use a console is enougth.

The work is quite easy. You just need to install Free Pascal and Lazarus on your FreeBSD. Download the magnifier source code and use the build_package.sh script that automatically builds the magnifier and makes a package for it.

This should then be made once for every magnifier release.

thanks,

Felipe

Virtual Magnifying Glass v3.3 released

Harri Pyy — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 05:54:24 -0000

Virtual Magnifying Glass is designed for visually-impaired and others who need to magnify a part of the screen.

Some new things on v3.3
- An experimental Dynamic Mode is available on this version on Windows. Please read the PDF documentation that ships together with the magnifier for detailed information about how to use it.
- A plugin system was introduced. It should now be possible to write plugins that change dramatically how the magnifier works. We would like to encourage users with the adequate knowledge to write plugins to extend the functions of the magnifier. The first plugin created adds the experimental dynamic mode on Windows.
- The menu sometimes would get stuck when the glass opens. This is fixed.
- Fixed the keeping of the values of magnification and other options
- Added option to control if you wish the magnifier to show automatically when executed
- On Linux the command to execute the magnifier changed to vmg, to avoid incompatibilities with other tools
- On Linux the mouse cursor is now hidden, but this requires a very latest Lazarus, and the packages are compiled with the latest stable (0.9.22). If you download a subversion Lazarus (or 0.9.24 or superior when they are released). Build lazarus, and then use it to build the magnifier. The bug will be solved
- Updated the RPM packages to reflect that we no longer need ImageMagick
- Updated the build scripts
- Separated translations on a new file, called translations.pas, so they are more isolated from the code.
- Added German translation
- Lot's and lot's of minor bug fixes

You can download it from:

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=60638

More information on:

http://magnifier.sourceforge.net/

Virtual Magnifying Glass v3.2.1 released

Harri Pyy — Sun, 11 Jun 2006 23:02:41 -0000

v3.2.1
- On Windows the hability to control the magnification using the mouse whell was readded.
- The Linux version performance is greatly improved because now it uses Gtk directly to take the screenshot and magnify the screen, so no temporary files are needed at all. Also the memory usage is much smaller.
- ImageMagick is no longer a dependency of the Linux version, making it much easier to install and use.
- French translation added
- Hability to view the help files using pdf viewers
- The About box is now also translatable
- Anti-Aliasing is no longer available on Linux, because we no longer use ImageMagick, but it will be added back on the future.

The next version will introduce a beta dynamic mode on Windows.

Recent posts to news

Version 3.6 available

Virtual Magnifying Glass v3.4 released

Virtual Magnifying Glass v3.3.2 released

Virtual Magnifying Glass v3.3.1 released

Next release planned for end of Dec 07

Version 3.3 for FreeBSD released

The magnifier now accepts donations

FreeBSD maintainer wanted

Virtual Magnifying Glass v3.3 released

Virtual Magnifying Glass v3.2.1 released