RULER(9.1) RULER(9.1)
NAME
ruler - measure things on the screen
SYNOPSIS
ruler
DESCRIPTION
Ruler measures things on a mux(9.1) screen. Press button 1
to sweep out a rectangle anywhere on the screen. For each
rectangle swept, ruler displays the coordinates of the
rectangle's corners (labeled down and up), the size of the
rectangle and length of its diagonal.
There is a menu on button 3. The pixels and chars items
control whether the size and diagonal are measured in units
of pixels or characters; stop deactivates ruler without
exiting; measure reactivates ruler.
BUGS
Character units are arbitrarily defined as the width and
height of a `0' in the ruler layer. This may have nothing
to do with character sizes in other layers.
Ruler's menu must pop up in its own layer, perhaps far away
from the cursor.