About Grille
This module shows a full screen grille of perpendicular lines,
thus dividing the desktop space into a set of frames.
The user can use hotkeys to change the aperture grille size or Positioning mode (Pinned or Follow mouse).
The grille can be shown on all monitors simultaneously
or only on the screen with the mouse pointer (aka mouse screen).
This is a handy tool for aligning rich UI-forms, especially in a multi monitor environment.
Combining it with coordinates and crosshair will help you
handle almost every positioning, alignment, and resizing task.
Tasks like Rule of Thirds can be applied by pressing two hotkeys.
Enabling and disabling the grille
To show or hide the grille, click on the "Show grille" checkbox in myPoint menu, or press the hotkey (default: ⌃⌥⌘ L).
Customizing the grille
Open myPoint panel and select the Grid view.
Grille
Show
Toggle the grille visibility.
Default value is Off.
Restore defaults
Pressing this button will reset the grille settings to default values.
Gauge slider
The width of the line when the grille is active.
Default value is 1.
Color
The color of the line when the grille is active.
Default value is Blue with an opacity of 20%.
Offset from mouse
When selected, myPoint offsets the grille from mouse position by the amount specified in H and V sliders.
Default value is Off.
"H" slider
The grille's horizontal offset from the mouse position.
Default value is 0.
"V" slider
The grille's vertical offset from the mouse position.
Default value is 0.
Aperture H slider
The width of the aperture. There are two numbers after the slider:
Aperture V slider
The height of the aperture. There are two numbers after the slider:
Grille jump
Toggle the Grille jump mode.
Default value is On.
On mouse screen only
Grille layers consume a lot of memory.
Setting this option On will reduce the memory pressure on a multi-monitor system.
Default value is Off.
Pin
Toggle the Follow mouse and Pin modes.
The Follow mouse mode loads the CPU a lot. So keep the grille pinned most of the time.
Default value is On.
Precise
Toggle the Precise mode.
If the Precise mode is On, the Aperture size hotkeys will change the aperture by 1px.
Else they will change it by 10px.
Default value is Off.
Grille from bands
Number of bands:
The number of bands in horizontal and vertical directions inside the virtual frame.
Press the Apply bands hotkey to build the virtual frame
according to the pinpoint and the current mouse position.
The so constructed grille will cover the whole desktop, but its aperture will respect the width of the bands in the virtual frame.
Default value is 3.
Hotkeys
Toggle grille
Hotkey combination to show and hide the grille.
Default value is ⌃⌥⌘ L.
Pin grille
Hotkey combination to toggle the positioning mode.
There are two positioning modes: Follow mouse and Pinned. Default value is ⌃⌥⌘ N.
Apply bands
Hotkey combination to reconstruct the grille.
The grille will be rebuilt concerning the current mouse position, the grille pinpoint, and the horizontal and vertical number of bands (see the Grille from bands section). Default value is ⌃⌥⌘ B.
Grille aperture: increase H
Hotkey combination to increase the width of the aperture.
Default value is ⌥⌘ Right Arrow.
Grille aperture: decrease H
Hotkey combination to decrease the width of the aperture.
Default value is ⌥⌘ Left Arrow.
Grille aperture: increase V
Hotkey combination to increase height of the aperture.
Default value is ⌥⌘ Up Arrow.
Grille aperture: decrease V
Hotkey combination to decrease height of the aperture.
Default value is ⌥⌘ Down Arrow.
Toggle precise
Hotkey combination to toggle the Precise mode.
If the Precise mode is On, the Aperture size hotkeys will change the aperture by 1px. Else they will change it by 10px. Default value is ⌃⌥⌘ Dot.
Note:
There are small buttons on the right side of the hotkey editors. Click on them to simulate the related hotkey. |
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