Dwarf adds unit types and tool position to its arsenal
I’ve been working on Dwarf little by little and finally built one of the most requested features—unit types. The five available unit types are pixels, picas, centimeters, inches, and percent. Inches have dotted lines for quarter inches and percent always displays 100% on the ruler, but scales its grid to show ten columns and ten rows. At the moment, the units are based on a 72 dpi screen, but I’ll be adding an option to change the dpi, since most screens aren’t 72. If anyone has suggestions for that other than using a list, let me know.
The unit type is selected by clicking the menu at the right of the toolbar. It prompts a context menu with the options. Dwarf remembers which unit type you used last, so it’ll remain the same next time you startup. Along with unit types, I included positions and dimensions in the toolbar. This is mostly for the position, but I thought dimensions look nice up there too. At the moment, the position is in relation to the main screen, but the next build improves multi-screen support. You will be able to specify which screen to relate the position to. This also comes in handy for moving guides from screen to screen.
If you’re already a Dwarf user, start up for the update, or download it from GitHub. And, as always, let me know what you think in the comments.
Great Tiny app Love it!
I think old style of color chooser was better.
Greets
Great tool!
Unit types are awesome – would love to see the keyboard input of the dimension reflect the choice so I could type in that I wanted a 4″ x 6″ ruler for example. Also maybe I’m the only one who wanted to click there, but if I highlight either the height or width dimension in the toolbar (thinking maybe I could change it from there) but then changed the dimension by resizing the ruler, the toolbar field disappears and won’t come back until app restart.
The new features are great — thanks for the update. I wanted to let you know that Norton Internet Security 2010 has some kind of issue with your app. NIS’s behavior monitoring feature, SONAR, detected something it didn’t like about dwarf.exe when I started it up, and threw the file into quarantine. I told NIS to ignore the file in the future, recovered it from quarantine, and now everything’s working fine.
I have really enjoyed using Dwarf. Thanks for sharing!
Would be nice if DestroyTwitter was open sourced!