What's new in Magic Lens Max 5.0
Jun 9, 2008
- Supports hardware overlay of various types of video cards. This feature makes Magic Lens Max an unique state-of-the-art tool with smoother and flicker-free visual effects, now completely capable of viewing any layered or transparent windows underneath the lens.
- Reduces screen glare with realistic anti-glare texture filters.
- Allows adjusting the brightness and contrast of lens view.
- Supports the maximum lens size of 1280 x 1280 pixels.
- Fixed the settings saving issue while rebooting the system.
New in Magic Lens Max 4.2 (Apr 16, 2008)
- Locked mode improved to capture layered windows and mouse cursor from outside the lens. In this way you can view any transparent windows (including any desktop Widgets, Vista Gadgets, and balloon hints, etc.) in the lens
- Click the tray icon to Show/Hide the lens, and double-click it to Minimize/Restore the main window. Now the latter operation will not result in the former
- When main window is to be closed, minimize it to tray instead of exiting the application
- When program started, the options to Minimize Main Window to Tray and to Display Lens are now available
- Improved Capture to File dialog with resizable window
New in Magic Lens Max 4.0 (Mar 25, 2008)
- Completely new designed user interface with usability and accessibility greatly improved
- Supports full-screen mode
- Allows locking/unlocking the lens on screen
- Allows adjusting Red/Green/Blue color levels of the lens view
- Capture output supports most of the popular image formats, including transparent PSD/PNG/TIFF/TGA images with alpha channel
- Improved the compatibility with Windows Vista, Magic Lens Max will automatically detect and disable Desktop Composition (Aero Effects) to run correctly, and restore it when exited
- Optimized refreshing performance for smoother movement of the lens
- Lots of other minor improvements
New in Magic Lens Max 3.1 (Feb 13, 2008)
- Fixed the caret tracking issue in Word 2003
- Fixed the compatibility issue with Windows Mail
- Improved the compatibility with Windows Vista
New in Magic Lens Max 3.0 (Jan 25, 2008)
- Simultaneously tracking the system caret
- Allows positioning the lens center by setting the offsets from mouse cursor and system caret
- Click the tray icon to Show/Hide the lens view
- Resetting the lens to Default more accessibly
- Provides a shortcut to choose the mouse pointer scheme
- Optimized performance of refreshing the lens view
New in Magic Lens Max 2.5 (Jul 25, 2007)
- Usability Improvement
- Ctrl Mouse Wheel to zoom in/out the lens view
- Ctrl Shift Mouse Wheel to rotate the lens view clockwise/counter-clockwise
- Ctrl Alt Mouse Wheel to lighten/darken the lens view
- Ctrl Shift Up/Down to zoom in/out the lens view
- Ctrl Shift Right/Left to rotate the lens view clockwise/counter-clockwise
- Lens Size - Ctrl Shift 3 - 9 to change the lens size to 300 x 300 - 900 x 900 pixels. Now supports up to the maximum size of 1024 x 1024 pixels
- Capture - Capture the snapshot masked with lens border or not
- Output now supports BMP/JPG/GIF/PNG/PDF/TIFF/TGA/PPM/PCX image formats
- Color Mode - Now supports setting the sepia depth from 10% to 100%
- Hotkeys - The unnecessary global hotkeys are disabled when the lens view is hidden