Full Screen Magnification for X Windows
BlindPenguin - X Windows Accessability Project
http://www.blindpenguin.org
kieran.osullivan@blindpenguin.org
SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
I am writing an Xlib (written in c) based screen magnification program for
X Windows called BlindPenguin (http://www.blindpenguin.org). I am posting
to this group to get ideas on a technical issue with the program. The
issue is this any X magnification program that I have seen draws the
magnified area on a window I DO NOT WANT TO DO THIS. I want to write a
program, which zooms in like a video camera on a particular part of the
screen what will happen is that the magnified area of the screen will
fill the entire screen, in simple terms the magnified area will be re-drawn
with more pixels to fill the screen. However the X server and clients
shouldn't care about this in-fact they shouldn't know. Basically there
are 2 screens 1 is the screen that the X server creates and the other is
the screen that the user sees. As I move the mouse around the X server
moves it on the real screen but the user sees the magnified screen moving.
To use the video camera analogy again imagine a person walking around a
room using the view finder of a video camera turned up to full zoom to see.
Their coordinates would change relative to the objects in the room but they
would see things much larger than they are.
WHAT I AM LOOKING FOR
I am looking for ideas or code that will help me do this Especially DGA
code. Also anyone who
has knowledge of how programs like ZoomText or Lunar do this in Windows
I would like to hear of it, I know that ZoomText doesn't work in X but
the ideas may inspire me.
THIS PROGRMA WILL BE RELEASED UNDER GPL
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