Cutting a rectangle

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.

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

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

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

Acknowledge button (or one of ,, when screen-capturing mode, or when magnifying) 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:

Depending from the settings of primary scissors-function, the acknowledge button becomes according function.

Using the mouse wheel the selection can be zoomed positive or negative. Selection can also be repositioned on the screen according to three movement modes (absolute, relative and on-place). After repositioning of the selection, Vidi creation goes disabled.

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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