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• distribute the app through the App Store?
• upload it to pascal.com/software/freeruler? (nah)
• GitHub releases? https://help.github.com/en/articles/creating-releases
• Notarization?

On a non-retina display, the ticks which are drawn at every second pixel are actually joined. I am unsure why, but wondering if instead of pixels 2, 4, 6 etc they should be draw at 2.5, 4.5, 6.5 etc

Was never totally happy with this lock icon from the old version, but something like this.

Interesting stackoverflow thread on this, with multiple good answers. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24220638/subclassing-nswindowcontroller-in-swift-and-initwindownibname

Great tool, thnx for the recent 64bit update!

A small bug: you only see the upper part of the horizontal "164" and vertical "109"

See attached image

Is Sparkle still the best way to do this?

(macOS 10.12.6)

some way to tell which window is frontmost and will respond to arrow keys, etc

Remove menu items not relevant to this app.

First off, thanks for this! I was just wondering what would become of this app when my laptop gets upgraded to 10.15, and you're already here (before a few paid apps I'm waiting on even).

Second, should this be able to run on 10.12? I know I can use the old version, but was just curious if the compatibility was a "new at cocoa" issue or if the ruler is using some fancy features that aren't in 10.12.

Update about window with credits, paypal link?

Hi,

This is my problem: ruler value not visible. Can you help me?

Thanks!
Krisztian

I have an LG 38" UltraWide display with Mac Mini 2018.
System: macOS Catalina 10.15.5 (19F101)
Ruler app version: 2.0.2 (222) (App Store)

create a new RulerVerticalWindow: NSWindowController class and corresponding XIB, set all that up, and add to the AppDelegate.

I pushed out a new release last night and after several hours in review it's now available in the App Store:

But it's not showing up in the updates tab:

Is there something special I need to do in order to enable auto-updates from the app store?

expected:

• when the mouse is over a ruler, should show the hand cursor.
• when the mouse is outside a ruler, should show the crosshair cursor.

actual:

• the cursors behave correctly when you first start the app, but they quickly get confused, sometimes showing the arrow cursor instead of the hand when over a ruler, sometimes showing the hand cursor when outside a ruler.

Assuming you're thinking of just two rulers at this stage, in a nutshell I think it will involve:

• a boolean on the AppDelegate
• capturing the window movement from each window controller's NSWindowDelegate extension, and passing it back up to the AppDelegate. Something roughly like:

  extension RulerHorizontalWindow: NSWindowDelegate {
  
      ...
  
      func windowDidMove(_ notification: Notification) {
          let appDelegate = NSApplication.shared.delegate as? AppDelegate
          appDelegate?.windowDidMove(notification)
      }
  }

• having the AppDelegate "choreograph" the synchronisation of the two windows' positions, by implementing its own homegrown version of windowDidMove, as called by the two windows as per above .

You'd likely need to:

• get the window out of the notification (guard let window = notification.object as? NSWindow or similar)
• somehow identify which window triggered the window move (a switch or something checking for window.windowController as? RulerHorizontalWindow perhaps?)
• then adjust the other window's frame

Please let me know which parts of the above make no sense whatsoever! :)

Now that MacOS Catalina is upon us, the old 32-bit 1.7b5 app does not work any more.
In the meantime, I made a local build for myself.
Could I help in any way to speed up the release 2.0?

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/appkit/nscursor
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45987368/how-to-use-addcursorrect-outside-an-nsview

This looks promising: https://www.mokacoding.com/blog/automatic-xcode-versioning-with-git/

Hi, and thank you for releasing this great tool!

I'd like to request a future enhancement - would you consider adding a Crosshair function to this? Something that can be toggled on/off and would just be a fullscreen crosshair centered on the mouse cursor position, e.g:

This could be very useful and a good complement to this tool I think.

Hi Pascal,

Just add all the features that were in previous versions- like those found in Version 1.7b5.

Cheers,

Steve

246 pixels, 325 pixels

just an idea I had, maybe not a real pressing user need, but could be a fun learning exercise.

Not sure we need close buttons, but here's an interesting article on custom positioning of window controls: https://zhenchao.li/posts/2018-07-04-positioning-traffic-lights-of-your-cocoa-app.html

15" Retina MacBook Pro on left, 27" Thunderbolt display on right

When quitting with rulers on left screen:

They restore on the other screen, and with wrong positions relative to each other:

App Store rejection for 2.0.3:

After implementing UserDefaults #16

• ruler color
• active transparency
• inactive transparency
• float above other windows

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19367019/obtaining-previous-versions-of-mac-os-x-for-testing

• Persist ruler visibility

Hello,

I have been using the ruler for quite a while and enjoy using it. I am wondering the new version of the ruler will be available in inches instead of pixels and if it will have a conversion settings available like it did in the previous versions. It sucks that with the new Mac Catalina update, it doesn't allow for the old version to work. This ruler rocks!

• ruler color
• active transparency
• inactive transparency
• float above other windows

I really appreciate the simple, basic way that FreeRuler meets an occasional need. I'm wondering if there is any way that the option could be added to rotate the ruler, so that, for example, measurements of objects that are at an angle in a photo could be made. Simply choosing a degree of rotation would be great; having live rotation would be even better. Thank you for providing this great tool, and for reading my suggestions!

Regards,

Dave B.

Hi, the specific feature your previous version that was invaluable was the ability to scale the ruler. It allowed me to scale to a pdf set of plans and measure areas of a drawing. Please add this back. Thank you

there is native window-snapping in Mac OS X; unfortunately when trying to snap rulers together they don't quite meet up. the system leaves a 2px gap.

might have to implement some sort of custom snapping logic to fix this.

Super cool that you're re-doing this in Swift. I've used your REALbasic version for so many years I can't even remember :)

Let me know if you have any particular questions about reimplementing this in Cocoa and Swift. I'd love to try to help.

MIT, Apache, what?

See links in #24 for help on saving NSColor to UserDefaults