Cutting a rectangle
   
Within this mode, the scissors-nib needs to be positioned firstly into one of the corners of the desired cutting rectangles. This positioning is performed by the moving of closed scissors to the desired position. Selection begins, with opening the scissor and moving them onto a oposite corner of the desired rectangles. During cutting, the semitransparent rectangle frame indicates the cutting-area.

Selection ends when releasing the mouse button. The semitransparent frame becomes filled and magnifies the selection area. No further selection is allowed until acknowledging or cancelling the magnified cut.  Two buttons are shown, reed for cancel and green for acknowledges.

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Optional right-click on green Acknowledge button opens a menu strip with optional functions.

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Moving the mouse into the particular button-area, displays the corresponding icons as a mouse cursor

Cancel buttongraphicis drawn at the starting position of the selection. Esc keystroke cancels the selection as well.

Acknowledge button graphic (or one of graphic,graphic,graphic when screen-capturing mode) is drawn on the final position of the selection. Enter keystroke acknowledges the selection as well.

The magnified cut can be acknowledged or cancelled. After acknowledgement, the underlying conventional window is shown as a gadget within the Vidi window.

If canceled, no cutting is performed and the scissors are ready for the next cut. The cutting sequence is shown within the demo below:

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Remark: the sub-rectangle detection engine (sub-window in the pre-release version) detects the possible bounds and trims the drawing rectangle to those bounds.


Cutting a freeform shape

Smart Scissors mode

        Cutting a single object

        Cutting of merged objects

Creating a customized window head

Appearance of the Vidi window within the desktop taskbar


Using the scissors-nib for cutting the window


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