PixelStick now works across my 2 monitors however the Menu Bar on my second monitor has disappeared (no great loss for me) and if I run an app in “full screen mode” (OSX full screen mode), the monitor that the app is not running on is un-usable – again no great loss to me as, apart from YouTube videos, I never run apps in Full Screen Mode.ĭespite those issues, PixelStick is still a great tool which does much more than measuring the distance between 2 points.
Open the System Preferences in OSX, select Mission Control and untick the “Displays have separate Spaces” box. Thanks to Elaine Giles I also discovered there’s a fix. From a hardware perspective, the ESPixelStick is a pixel driver motherboard for the ESP8266 ESP-01 WiFi module. The controller itself fits in 1 thin wall PVC to enable embedding with the fixture its controlling. I discovered this when I dragged the PixelStick “measuring line” onto my second monitor and it disappeared. A cost effective solution for driving a universe of pixels via E1.31 over WiFi. The second issue is that it doesn’t work with multiple monitors on OSX Mavericks. Why I thought it could, I don’t know, but I must have done to have used the search term “PixelStick alternatives Windows”. width and height) at the same time nor can it create a “frame” that I can fit a window into. Rather than keeping a list of themes/templates/maximum widths, it’s actually quicker to run PixelStick and measure the available space, as per this video:īefore I finish, I did find a couple of issues with PixelStick.įirst of all, it can’t actually measure 2 dimensions (i.e. The amount of available space varies depending on which theme and template is applied. However, different sites have different themes applied and even within the same theme, different pages have different “templates” applied. The red line indicates the maximum width available for a video or image in the blog post. For example, here’s a random post from my blog: I often need to know, for any given site, the maximum available width, in pixels, that a video or screenshot (or other image). As an example, I have a number of WordPress-based sites that have videos and images in the “posts” and pages”. The application lies within Design & Photo Tools, more precisely Viewers & Editors. Our antivirus check shows that this Mac download is malware free. The following versions: 2.7, 2.6 and 2.5 are the most frequently downloaded ones by the program users. So what do I use it for? Primarily for measuring pixel distance. PixelStick 2.16.2 for Mac is free to download from our software library. It’s excellent for designers or anyone who wants to measure a distance on their screen in any window or application. Read on to find out why Starts at 449 375. With a massive feature set, seamless connectivity, and a custom animation system, colorspike is in a class by itself.
The intuitive app and rugged form-factor insure that your gear never gets in the way of your vision.
It works in any app and anywhere on screen. Colorspike is a rare combination of power and flexibility. PixelStick is a tool for measuring distances, angles and colours on the screen. To shamelessly steal the description from the manufacturer’s website… PixelStick is a measuring app for the Mac.
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