Screen Scope v1.3

Pick your own hotkey modifier, and a crisp window icon.

Choose any modifier

The Shortcuts tab no longer offers a fixed list. Press Change, hold the combination you want, and it is captured: any mix of Ctrl, Alt, Shift and Win, two keys minimum. Ctrl+Shift is the default.

Two keys minimum is not a whim. A single modifier would turn Mod+S, Mod+Q and Mod+1–0 into global grabs, so the app would eat Save and Quit in every other application on your machine.

AltGr no longer breaks your keyboard

Windows sends AltGr as Ctrl+Alt. The old default was Ctrl+Alt, which meant Screen Scope won the race against your keyboard: on a French AZERTY layout it took eight characters away entirely — @ ~ # { [ | and \.

The default moved to Ctrl+Shift, which costs nothing. Ctrl+Alt is still yours to pick, but the Shortcuts tab now names the exact characters it would cost on your own layout, queried from Windows rather than guessed, so you see the price before you keep it.

Combinations using Win are accepted too, but Windows reserves most of them (Win+1–0 for the taskbar, Win+Shift+S for the snipping tool). The tab marks the shortcuts Windows refused.

A real window icon

screenscope.ico is now bundled into the exe and used for the settings window. Previously the window got a 32px image drawn in code, which Windows shrank to a hairline at 16px in the title bar. Icons are now loaded at the size the display actually asks for, so a scaled display is not handed an upscaled one.

Upgrading

Drop the new ScreenScope.exe next to your existing config.json. Nothing to migrate: the config format is unchanged, and a file naming Ctrl+Alt keeps working — it just gets the warning.

Also in this release since v1.2

The product is named Screen Scope throughout, the presentation page and the download are linked from the README, and the default presets are named after their hotkey digit.

Screen Scope v1.2

Everything below is new since v1.1. The settings window was rebuilt, the app is now fully English, and config loading no longer dies on a file you edited by hand.

Settings, rebuilt

One page, in a fixed order: screen, presets, name, settings, preview, crosshair code. There is no Apply any more — the preview follows every change and Save applies it to the overlay and writes it to disk in one go.

Settings are grouped by the shape that uses them, and a setting no ticked shape uses is greyed out. Gap without a cross used to sit there looking adjustable while doing nothing.

A second tab, Shortcuts, sets the hotkey modifier (Ctrl+Alt, Ctrl+Shift, Alt+Shift, Ctrl+Alt+Shift). It applies immediately, and tells you when Windows refuses a key because another application already holds it — previously that failed in silence and left you with a shortcut that did nothing.

Crosshair codes

Every preset now fits in a short code you can share:

VSR1-5-FFFFFF-690F96-13-1-3-1

Copy puts the current preset's code on the clipboard, Paste reads one and applies it to the selected preset. Invalid codes are refused with a reason and change nothing.

The ten presets that ship with a fresh install are now named Preset 1 through Preset 10, matching the digit that switches to them, instead of describing shapes and colors you did not choose. An existing config.json keeps its own names.

Fixes

• A config.json edited by hand could kill the app at startup with no window, no tray icon and no message — a .pyw has no console. Six such paths are closed; a partial or damaged file is now completed rather than rejected.
• Saving wrote over config.json in place, truncating it before serializing: one preset name the encoder refused destroyed all ten presets. Writes now go through a temp file.
• The icon carried a single 16×16 image, so Windows upscaled it everywhere. All six sizes (16 → 256) are present.
• The settings window no longer uses a fixed size, which pushed Save off-screen at 125% display scaling with no way to recover. It also opens on the screen the crosshair is on, rather than wherever Windows decided.

Notes

Windows 10 and 11. Portable: drop the exe anywhere, it keeps config.json beside itself. No installer, nothing in the registry.

If you used the previous build's run-at-startup checkbox, the shortcut it created is still in your Startup folder — that feature is gone, so delete it by hand if you don't want it.

Viseur v1.1

Nouveautés

• Raccourcis configurables : le modifier des hotkeys est maintenant sélectionnable dans les paramètres (Ctrl+Alt, Ctrl+Shift, Alt+Shift, Ctrl+Alt+Shift). Résout les conflits avec d'autres apps (NVIDIA, Armoury Crate) qui bloquent Ctrl+Alt+chiffres.
• Le changement de modifier se fait à chaud, sans redémarrer l'application.
• Le choix est persisté dans config.json.

Viseur v1.0

Viseur — Crosshair Overlay

Télécharger Viseur.exe ci-dessous et le lancer. Rien à installer.

Raccourcis

Raccourci	Action
Ctrl+Alt+S	Ouvrir/fermer les paramètres
Ctrl+Alt+H	Masquer/afficher le viseur
Ctrl+Alt+1-0	Changer de preset (1-10)
Ctrl+Alt+Q	Quitter