Scissors menu
is shown, by right-click on the pad and is divided into four sections. Any section
could be hidden or set visible separately, by double-clicking on the corresponding section-separator.
Picture below shows full expanded menu. Double-click on menu-head switches between small
and large menu-displaying mode.
Why to use a menu?
How to close a scissors program?
Section - Scissors modes
Section - Scissors cutting functions
Section - snapping modes
System parameter section
Primary use
Zooming
Orientation
Default hand
Freeform settings
Restore all
Info
Put-down
Using scissors
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Why to use a menu?
A menu can be used to perform Scissors-setting, which could also be done on-fly directly on the
Scissors-pad or Scissors-nib. Additionally some of the system settings could change the
behaviour of the Scissors in order to adjust it to the particular user's preferences. This menu
could also be used as additional visualisation of the actual scissors-mode and functions.
How to close scissors program?
Menu can be closed on the same way as it was opened - with right-mouse-click or clicking on the
close button positioned in the center of the menu-title.
Section - Scissors modes
This section shows the current scissors mode, which is cutting or moving mode. The
current or actual mode is indicated by the selection strip and by the graphics displayed
on the left. During moving of mouse pointer into the non-selected menu-item, a
displayed graphics shows the possible changes to the actual mode. Clicking on the
corresponding menu item, changes the mode appropriate.
Section - Scissors cutting functions
Section - snapping modes
Snapping is a function, which suggests the possible bounds of the cutting-areas. When
moving the scissors on display, the small cross is displayed when scissors is approaching
to these detected bounds. In cutting mode, the cutting position is automatically
adjusted to these bounds, when Snapping is set to active. If Snapping is set to "Snap
info", this adjustments do not occurs automatically. When Snapping is OFF, no bounds
are suggested. These modes are related to the rectangular or free-shaped cutting. If
Auto-detection mode is set as scissors cutting function, the snapping is "automatically"
set active.
System parameter section
First two menu-items within this section are adjustments of Scissors behaviour
according to particular user preferences.
Menu shows five options to optimize scissors primary usage.
Changing the primary use, the Scissors behaviour is adjusted to use it more conveniently
for Vidi creation or for Screen Capturing. See: Using the scissors for screen-capturing for more detailed explanation.
Five possible Scissors-behaviour modes can be set as primary:
- Create Vidi 
- Capture screen 
- Save capture 
- Edit capture 
- Magnify capture
Cut-acknowledge button function is redefined according to the primary use.
- Leave this option on: Create Vidi, if you intend to use scissors
mainly for Vidi creation.
- If you intent to use scissors mainly for screen capturing, set it to: Capture
screen.
- If you intent mainly to save screen-selection into a file, set it to: Save
capture.
- If you intent mainly to edit screen-selection, set it to: Edit capture.
- If you intent mainly to edit screen-magnification set it to: Magnify capture.
Zooming
Zooming menu-section sets particular parameters, which are applied to screen-selection
zooming respectively screen-magnifying.
Main menu item shows actual zoom level, which is applied for screen-selection and
could be set between 10% and 1000%. Initial – default zoom level is 100% and this
means – no zooming is performed upon screen-selection.
Example 1 – Zoom level is 100% and a part of the screen has been selected using the
scissors:
The selected area appears within an area, which is transparently magnified without the
zooming. Sliding the mouse-wheel upwards or downwards, selected area zoom-level can
be fine adjusted to desired level interactively.
Example2 – Zoom level is 177% and the same part of the screen, as within the example
1, has been selected:
The selected area appears initially zoomed for zoom-level parameter. Sliding the mouse-wheel upwards or downwards,
selected area zoom-level can be fine adjusted to desired
level interactively for example on the 188%.
Menu on the selected area allows saving the tuned zoom-level as the default zoom
level.
Click on the first menu item “Zoom Vidi” (“copy to”, “save to”...depending
from primary
use settings) allows editing initial menu level value.
Entered value can be acknowledged clicking the green button or cancelled with mouse
click on the reed cancel button (respectively ENTER or ESC keys on the keyboard). Sign
within the loupe icon on the left side of menu represents if actual level is positive (+),
negative (-) or is reset to original selection size (O)
Desired initial zoom level can further be enlarged or shrunk by 10% or set to its original
value of 100%.
Select content versus Select viewport
An object could be zoomed on two different ways.
1. Selected object and viewport are zoomed simultaneously – so you as user get more
concentrated on the whole content of the selected and zoomed object. A ball in
previous example has been enlarged together with the surrounding frame with selected
Select content parameter. This may be useful, when zooming graphics or screen
objects.
2. Selected object is enlarger, but the frame remains same initial size, which is drawn as
a
part of selection process. When using Select viewport parameter, a golf-ball gets resized
within initially declared frame. This may be useful, when defining a part of your screen
as a loupe to underlying textual information.
Refresh selection
This parameter when enabled causes the dynamic refresh (4 times per second) of
selected area. If you are selecting for example a part of dynamic web site content, the
selected content refreshes just like the underlying content.
After selecting an object, the selection can be moved – just like Vidi windows, in three
modes. Regarding our golf-example:
1. Absolute-ball and frame are moved simultaneously in desired direction
2. Relative- ball remains on the tee, but the zooming frame moves around the
ball
3. On place- frame remains on place, but the ball moves to the desired direction
When refreshing changes, the mouse buttons functions swaps. As consequence, the
default moving mode from user point of view changes accordingly to refreshing or no
refreshing of the selected object. Advanced user, however, still can use second mouse
button during dragging to switch refreshing temporarily for the time of moving ON
without changing the menu parameter.
Orientation
Orientation is shown as sub-menu showing the direction of default scissors orientation
when moving or cutting. One of four possible orientations can be set as default.
If scissors cutting function is set to rectangular cutting, additionally, a floating scissors
orientation could be switched ON or OFF. If floating mode is ON, the cutting scissors
turns automatically to the most appropriate direction.
Remark: Scissors is turning automatically to the most appropriate direction, when
approaching the screen borders or screen corners.
Default hand
Default hand shows a submenu with choices for right or left handed usage of scissors.
Changing the default-hand-mode, the Scissors behaviour is adjusted for right-respectively left handed usage.
Freeform settings
Free and polygonal drawing
1.) Default freeform drawing mode is free drawn. The shape in this mode is formed
from all points that mouse pointer visit on the screen during drawing.
2.) Alternate mode is Polygonal drawing mode. The shape is formed by the points,
which has been acknowledged with second mouse button, when first button is pressed
simultaneously.
It is possible to draw in polygonal, free drawing mode or a mixture of both
simultaneously without changing the menu setting.
Dragging a mouse with both buttons pressed switches “on fly” (and temporarily -until
both mouse buttons down) between drawing modes. If for example the menu drawing
mode is polygonal, then both mouse buttons dragging draws in free mode. If menu
drawing mode is free, then both mouse buttons dragging draws in polygonal drawing
mode.
Curve precision, roundness and course
Default curve precision is 17 points, which means, the shape is formed by those points,
which distance is at least 17 points to each other. Less points means more precise curve
around selected object. Both parameters can be altered using the keyboard.
Default curve roundness is 4% and is the tension of the curve between approximation
points in percent. When this parameter is set to 0, curve has no tension and shape is
drawn as usual polygon.
Set curve Course Straight sets the curve roundness to 0 and Set curve Course Rounded
sets the curve roundness to value defined with parameter Roundness.
Default settings
This menu sets all freeform related parameters to its initial (factory) settings.
Restore all
This menu sets all scissors parameters to its initial (factory) settings.
Info
Info menu offers access to the publisher web-site, where upgrades and new versions
and other information can be found.
Use Help performs switching between online and local copy of Help file. Menu PDF
documentation downloads Vidi windows Tools manual.
To improve user experience, you may enable data collection program, which send to the
publisher only information, which function of the program has been used recently and
how often.
About menu displays the copyright dialog. Automatic or manual version update is
disabled within Light Edition. The upgrade to the full version is available upon request as
web download.
Put-down
This menu item closes the scissors.
