Caliper Project

Finding a good Caliper or measuring tool that is both cross-platform and FREE seems to be quite difficult. PixelPerfect is a good starting point but not really as useful as a real caliper. So i have decided to create myself a CALIPER application for Adobe® AIR™ ( source coming soon ).

The Calilper floats above other applications on screen and can be used to measure anything on your monitor.

Possible Usages

  • Web Designers : Layout Measurements.
  • Graphic Designers : Photo and Illustration Measurements.
  • CAD Engineers : Measuring Architectural Drawings.

Features

  • Draggable
  • Rotates through 360°
  • Pixel Perfect Measurements.
  • Floats above all other applications.
  • Remember position on close.
  • Use keyboard direction keys to move the Caliper one pixel in any direction
  • Hold Shift and the direction keys to move the Caliper 10px in any direction
  • Hold Shift and click the rotation button to rotate the Caliper 45°

Wish list

  • Custom Skins.
  • Alpha transparency.
  • Customizable Blade Colors.
  • Multi-monitor support.
  • Start at login options
  • Custom Units.
  • Display X / Y Positions.
  • Screen Color Picker.
  • Keyboard Movement
  • 90° Shortcuts

Bug list

  • Doesn't shutdown completely
  • Install button still displayed on Badge when already downloaded

Source Comming Soon( I have to clean it up a little )

 

22 Comments »

  1. Great work dude ;)

    Requests:

    - move caliper through the keyboard;
    - keyboard shortcut to rotate it 90o

    This is just for faster usage really… otherwise keep it up ;)

    Thanks,
    Fil

    Comment by FilipeLima — August 20, 2008 @ 3:42 pm

  2. Thanks for your project.
    How can I turn the tool 90º with a one click or button?
    can I move the tool in all directions with the keyboard?

    Thanks for your answers.

    Comment by Popo — August 21, 2008 @ 10:10 pm

  3. Hi filipe, Popo,
    Currently you can’t rotate 90º with one click or mouse press however i will endevour to add this feature this weekend.

    Comment by Anthony — August 22, 2008 @ 3:17 am

  4. new version now has shift click / 45º rotation 90º rotation looked too clunky to me. I have also added keyboard support for moving the Caliper around the screen.

    Comment by Anthony — August 26, 2008 @ 4:57 pm

  5. Cheers our full class of web developers are using your callipers!! hope you carry on to make it more kick ass!!

    Comment by Enda — October 6, 2008 @ 3:08 pm

  6. @@Edna,
    Thanks Edna it’s really good to hear that someone apart from myself is using the tool. I have been really busy lately on a papervision project and haven’t been able to give the caliper a thought for some time. If you have any ideas of what you would like to see or have improved with the caliper that would probably get me interested in coding it again . Although I was thinking about adding a color picker to the tool so that I don’t have to keep opening photoshop every time I get a new design. From the designers.

    Comment by Anthony — October 13, 2008 @ 11:26 pm

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  8. Great tool. I just have one bug to report. I use a dual screen system on Windows XP and the caliper won’t move to the secondary screen when I drag it. Works nicely on the main screen though.

    Cheers!

    Comment by Roy Smith — October 24, 2008 @ 10:26 pm

  9. Thank you very much for this fantastic tool. Recently, i find many useful information about calipers at http://www.tresnainstrument.com/ too.

    Comment by Lancy — November 2, 2008 @ 3:55 am

  10. I’ve been needing exactly this for ages - thanks!

    It took me a while to find the hide icon - but once I found it, this is exactly what I needed.

    Comment by Dylan — November 20, 2008 @ 11:13 pm

  11. This is a great tool, thanks a lot for producing this. I think the below features will be very helpful:
    1. Alpha transparency
    2. Support for other Units like Cm, Mm, Pt
    3. Check box for “Stay On Top”

    Comment by Velan — December 18, 2008 @ 6:09 pm

  12. Hi,
    I got a problem with the caliper. The start-up screen ( the one which list out wishlist etc ) is displaying off the monitor on the lower right, so I am unable see and click on the ok button and proceed to the main application. Even I re-installed the application. Please let me know what I can do about this. Thank you.

    Comment by Velan — December 19, 2008 @ 11:44 pm

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