MichaelGraphics Software Tools    

• Most of the programs are entirely free of charge (no license required). Otherwise registration for a small license fee after a 30 day free trial period.
  (For the details of the registration procedure see the online help function of the respective programs, help topic Registration.)
• Detailed online help. One after the other, these help functions are being upgraded to the Windows 7/8/10 compatible HTML help system.
• User languages German and with most of the programs also English.
• All programs are frequently used by the author himself and thereby they will be constantly improved (check the dates listed in the Last update entries).
• All programs have been checked for viruses with the most recent version of Sophos-Antivir®.
• The development tool (Delphi 7 and XE8) used for programming the majority of my applications has definitely never been infected by the W32-Induc.A virus.
• The setup files for these programs can be downloaded from this web site (see below) and for a number of them alternatively also from the mirror Software Informer.

Contents:

  Magnifier

• Magnification factor adjustable in the range 1x  to 12x
• Display of the screen coordinates of the mouse cursor position and of the RGB values of the pixel under the mouse cursor
• The magnified image can be copied to the clipboard as a bitmap
• Any number of mouse cursor positions and optionally also the RGB values can be digitized and saved to an ASCII text file or to a CSV file for data import by MS-Excel®
• Compatible also with a multi-monitor desktop
• Help function now also compatible to Windows 7/8/10

  Capture 2.0

• Captures all objects on the desktop incl. the mouse cursor (optional), tooltips and the task bar
• Clipping with single pixel precision provided by displaying a magnified image of the region around the mouse cursor incl. its screen coordinates and the width and height of the selected region
• Can be invoked by a user-defined keyboard shortcut (thereby displayed menus and most of the tooltips will remain visible)
• Capturing optionally time delayed without any keyboard or mouse action (even very volatile tooltips will thus remain visible)
• Optional copying of the captured desktop region to the clipboard and saving as a BMP, GIF, JPG and PNG file
• Compatible also with a multi-monitor desktop
• Help function now also compatible to Windows 7/8/10
• Particularly suitable for writing manuals of any kind

  Screen Lid

• Suitable for covering any portion of the screen, useful e.g. in lectures and presentations
• Also useful for hiding nasty ads on web pages which don't allow you to use any adblockers
• All four corners of the rectangular lid can be indented independently
• Lid color adjustable plus a quick switching between black, white or the background color at the current mouse cursor position
• Transparency of the lid adjustable between entirely opaque and fully transparent
• Rectangular lid will always be the topmost window above all applications
• Several instances of the program can be run independently at a time
• Help function now also compatible to Windows 7/8/10

  Screen Pointer

• Pointer for marking any position on the screen, useful e.g. in lectures and presentations
• Pointer size and orientation adjustable
• Pointer color adjustable plus a quick switching between black, white or the background color at the current mouse cursor position
• Transparency of the pointer adjustable between entirely opaque and fully transparent
• Arrow shaped pointer will always be the topmost window above all applications
• Several instances of the program can be run independently at a time
• Help function now also compatible to Windows 7/8/10

  Ruler

• Both rulers can be moved across the desktop independently
• Transparency selectable between 0% and 90% in 10% steps
• Also useful for correctly setting the horizontal and vertical picture size of old fashioned CRT monitors

  ImgView 2.0

• Supported image file types: ANI, BMP, CUR, EMF, EPS, GIF, ICO, JPEG, JPG, PCX, PIC, PNG, PSD, PSP, PSPIMAGE, SCR, SGI, TGA, THM, TIF and WMF  (WMF safety gap taken care of)
• Rules for automatic resizing of images to fit the viewer window can be selected independently for images which are either too small or too large
• Optional automatic orientation of images according to the orientation information contained in the Exif meta data (above ca. 4 megapixels image size somewhat time consuming)
• Optional anti-aliasing (suppression of moiré effects with down scaled pictures)
• Loading speed of JPG files improved by a factor of 3 to 4 if compared to version 1.0
• Easy copying of images to the clipboard (EMF and WMF as a vector graphic and as a bitmap, all other image file types as a bitmap only)
• Easy printing of images (user-defined printer page layout)
• Supported languages: English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Danish and Swedish  (derived from the language selected in Total Commander)
• From Total Commander version 6.5 onwards simplified installation by double clicking the download file  ImgView.zip
• User forum  http://www.ghisler.ch/board/viewtopic.php?t=9976

  Panoramio Photo Wizard

• Choice of 4 different photo sizes: 1=thumbnail (max. 100 px), 2=small (max. 240 px), 3=medium (max. 500 px), 4=original (as uploaded by the user)
• Mode 1: Access by photo index and display of the photos only (very fast with photo sizes 1,2,3)
• Mode 2: Access by photo index and display of the photos with additional information incl. the views in Google Earth® and Google Maps® (noticeably slower)
• Mode 3: Access by user index and display of all photos (thumbnails) of the respective user registered with Panoramio® (also slow)
• Separate favorite lists for both photos and users
• Optionally automatic skipping of photos removed from the data base
• Simple printing and copying of photos to the clipboard
• Display of the Panoramio statistics data of single photos or of the entire photo gallery of a user
• Warning: This program is at high risk to cause susceptible users to develop some severe form of addiction (med. Google Earthritis).

  Media Player

• Supported audio file types:  AIF, AU, CDA, MID, MP3, SND, WAV, WMA
• Supported video file types:  AVI, MPE, MPEG, MPG, WMV
• When playing audio files, the image field disappears and the title number and the current play time are displayed in the Windows task bar
• Automatic resizing of the image display to fit the media player window
• Aspect ratio of the image display either automatic or fixed 4:3 or 16:9
• Video playing also in single step mode (suitable for displaying fast motion videos in classroom)
• Easy copying of images to the clipboard as a bitmap
• Help function now also compatible to Windows 7/8/10

  Equation Editor Wizard

• Fast change of the font type and the font size
• Automatic rescaling of all dependent sizes and spacings after changing the font size
• User-specific definition of all proportions and settings
• Compatible to all MS-Office® versions from Office 95® up to Office 2003®
• With VBA macro for starting EquationEditorWizard directly from within MS-Office®

  Index Wizard

• Enables a user to copy individual words or phrases quickly and easily from a text file into an index file (file formats RTF)
• Lists words or phrases alphabetically in the index file
• Entries in the index file can be listed on two levels, either as main entries, normally individual words, or sub-entries under a particular main entry or ‘headword‘, e.g. as usage examples
• Helps teachers to prepare lists of relevant vocabulary from a given text
• Helps learners to copy the important vocabulary and phrases from a given text
• Helps authors and publishers to edit text material and prepare glossaries
• Compatible to all word processing programs capable of editing RTF files
• AN ABSOLUTE MUST FOR ANY COMPUTER-LITERATE LANGUAGE TEACHER !!!

  Wire Frame Graphics

• MS-Excel® like table with six columns for entering the Cartesian coordinates of the line start and end points and one extra column for supplementary information
• Saving of the Cartesian coordinates of the line start and end points to ASCII files with an MS-Excel® compatible CSV like format
• Display of the wire frame models drawn to scale with user-selected scale factors
• Azimuth and elevation angle of the viewer adjustable by means of two trackbars or by mouse, optionally automatic rotation around the vertical axis
• Projection modes: Parallel projection and vanishing point projection
• Display modes: Drawn to perspective and three-dimensional stereo or anaglyph image (red-green glasses required)
• User-defined colors of the background and of the graphics elements
• The graphics can be printed, it can be saved to an EMF or BMP file and it can be copied to the clipboard both as a metafile vector graphic and as a bitmap

  Polarization 1.1

• Azimuth and elevation angle of the viewer adjustable by means of two trackbars or by mouse, optionally automatic rotation around the vertical axis
• Amplitudes of the horizontally and a vertically polarized transverse wave and phase shift between these waves adjustable by means of a trackbar
• Time t manually adjustable between 0 and the period T by means of a trackbar and automatic sweep (SingleSweep and AutoRepeat modes)
• Display of the two partial waves, of their superposition and of the resultant vector in the reference plane can be activated/deactivated
• User-defined axis labeling, colors and line widths and proportions of all graphics elements
• The graphics can be printed, can be saved to an EMF or BMP file and can be copied to the clipboard both as a metafile vector graphic and as a bitmap
• Help function now also compatible to Windows 7/8/10
• Suitable for demonstrations in lectures and as supplementary material for students to download

  Dispersion

• Time t manually adjustable between 0 and the period T by means of a trackbar and automatic sweep (SingleSweep and AutoRepeat modes)
• Ratio of phase velocity and group velocity manually adjustable in the range between 0.33 and 3.00
• Wave function (ordinate labeling):  voltage V, electric field E or gauge pressure p
• The graphics can be copied to the clipboard both as a metafile vector graphic and as a bitmap
• Suitable for demonstrations in lectures and as supplementary material for students to download

  Reflection and Transmission at an Impedance Mismatch 1.3

• Time t manually adjustable between 0 and the period T by means of a trackbar and automatic sweep (SingleSweep and AutoRepeat modes)
• Ratio of impedances Z₂/Z₁ manually adjustable in the range between zero and infinity
• Wave functions (ordinate labeling):  voltage/current, electric/magnetic field or gauge pressure/velocity
• Display of the reflection and transmission coefficients for amplitude and power and the voltage standing wave ratio, all calculated from the impedance ratio Z₂/Z₁
• The graphics can be copied to the clipboard both as a metafile vector graphic and as a bitmap
• Help function now also compatible to Windows 7/8/10
• Suitable for demonstrations in lectures and as supplementary material for students to download

  Oscillator Differential Equation

• Homogeneous oscillator differential equation of a mass-spring system of the type  m·d²x/dt² + k·dx/dt + D·x = 0  and other variants
• Friction force laws:  F = µ·m·g  (dynamic friction)  or  F = k·v  (friction in a Newtonian fluid)  or  F = k·v²  (friction in a turbulent flow)
• Spring force laws:  F = D·x  (Hooke's law)  or  F = D·x²  (no realistic modell)  or  F = D·x³  (transversely displaced mass between two springs suspended in line)
• Parameters: Mass m, friction constant µ or k, spring constant D, total time t_max, time interval dt, initial displacement x₀, initial velocity v₀
• Button to restore the default settings
• Numerical solution using a second order Runge-Kutta integration
• Graphical display of the resulting function
• Short help text from a pop-up menu opened by a right mouse button click or with the F1 function key (compatible also to Windows 7/8/10)
• Automatic language selection between English and German depending on the Windows language setting
• The graphic can be copied to the clipboard both as a metafile graphic and as a bitmap
• Suitable for demonstrations in lectures and as supplementary material for students to download
• Sample solution of a student C++ programming project

  Fourier Synthesis 1.1

• Calculates and graphs the Fourier series  s(x) = c·Σ [ a_i·cos(i·x) + b_i·sin(i·x) ]  (i = 0…i_max)  for 1001 equidistant x values in the interval between 0 and 2π
• Pre-defined sets of Fourier coefficients a_i and b_i and forefactors c for typical signal waveforms sine, cosine, |sine|, triangle, sawtooth and square wave
• Alternatively user-defined set of Fourier coefficients a_i and b_i and forefactor c which can also be saved to and loaded from a CSV file
• The index i_max of the highest harmonic can be chosen in the range between 0 and 999
• The table containing the arguments x_i and the calculated function values y_i = s(x_i) (i = 0…999) can also be saved to a CSV file
• Additional to the Fourier series s(x) the exact function f(x) to be approximated and a given number (up to a selectable maximum index) of harmonics can optionally also be graphed
• The harmonics belonging to the Fourier coefficient selected in the coefficient table will be highligted using a different color and/or linewidth
• The graph can be copied to the clipboard as a bitmap and be saved to a graphics file (supported file types are BMP, JPG, PNG and PNM)
• Besides being graphed, the Fourier series s(x) can additionally be played as an audio signal which can also be saved to a WAV file
• Supported user languages: English and German
• Suitable for demonstrations in lectures and as supplementary training material for students
• Upon setup, the ZIP file "Demo data.zip" (yet to be unpacked by the user) containing various Fourier coefficient sets, function value tables, function graphs and sound files will be copied to the working directory "C:\users\<UserName>\AppData\Local\MichaelGraphics\FourierSynthesis"
• No manual uninstalling required prior to installing an updated version of this FourierSynthesis program
• Version available for Windows (2000/XP/Vista®/7/8/10)

  Arithmetic Trainer

• Operations addition, subtraction, multiplication and divison can be activated/deactivated individually
• Ranges of the operands and results can be chosen between 10, 20, 100 and 1000
• Operands and results unsigned or signed
• Operator symbol for multiplication and divison selectable
• Assessment of results by affirmative/non-affirmative sounds and smileys possible
• Display of all settings related controls can be activated/deactivated
• Versions available with MP3 audio files (for Windows 2000/XP/Vista®/7/8/10) and with WAV audio files (for Windows 98/ME®)

  Event Logger

• Logging of all Windows messages sent to the EventLogger main window
• Logging of all keyboard, mouse and timer events related to this window and its child components
• Acquisition of all parameters of these messages and events and of their temporal sequence
• The log can be edited by the user (for entering commentaries etc.)
• The log can be copied to the clipboard and saved to a log file
• Optional child window listing all documented Windows messages (name and numerical value)
• Help function now also compatible to Windows 7/8/10
• Utility for the software development and for engineering educational purposes

  Joystick Wizard

• Automatic recognition of all connected joysticks and of relevant device changes also at runtime (plug-and-play)
• Status indication of joysticks selected by device index ('not installed', 'unplugged' and 'ready')
• Assignment of the joystick proportional axes x,y,z,r,u,v to the joystick channels configurable
• Analog and digital position display of all max. 6 proportional axes of every connected joystick
• Conversion of proportional axes raw data configurable as unipolar (zero at the range end) or bipolar (zero at mid range)
• Conversion of proportional axes raw data can be inverted (change of sign)
• Conversion of proportional axes raw data configurable as linear or progressive (3^rd order polynomial)
• Dead ranges around the zero positions of the joystick proportional axes configurable in the range from 0 % to 20 %
• Status indication of all max. 32 joystick buttons as small numbered green squares
• Status indication of the 9 possible point of view (POV) control positions as small arrow labelled green squares
• Polling time interval configurable in the range from 10 ms to 200 ms

  RS232 Wizard

• Monitor mode for logging data protocols and sender mode for sending logged or generated protocols
• In the monitor mode, data logging in the form of an ASCII text or as a hex dump
• Time tagged logging of a maximum of eight data streams, easily discernible by their channel-specific font properties (type, style, color etc.)
• Start of the data logging triggerable on user-defined trigger words
• Optional display of time tags, channel IDs and of the control characters <CR> and <LF>
• Provisions for entering user commentaries anywhere in the protocol
• Logged protocols can be saved and loaded as TXT files and as WinWord® compatible RTF files
• With schematic diagram of a simple adapter for tapping and logging the bidirectional communication over an RS232 line
• This adapter also allows for the manual insertion of short sequences of ASCII characters or bytes into the tapped data streams
• In the sender mode, at user-defined time intervals sending of a data stream which had been previously logged or loaded from a file
• In the sender mode, transmission of ASCII text protocols as a text data stream and transmission of hex dump protocols as a binary data stream
• In the sender mode, the transmission of any number of slave program instances can be synchronized to the timer of the master instance
• Optional automatic detection of device changes at runtime (plug-and-play)

  Update

• Creates backup copies on any storage medium (CD-RW, DVD-RW, ZIP disc, external hard disc, file server in a network etc.)
• Synchrionisation of subdirectory trees or of entire volumes of two computers (e.g. PC and notebook)
• Selection of the entry points in the subdirectory trees of the backup source and destination drive
• Selection of the file types to be copied
• Selection of the file types to be ignored
• Backup either of the specified source directory only or recursive backup of the entire subdirectory tree below the specified entry point
• Provisions to skip specified files or subdirectories in the backup process
• Provisions to log a protocol of the backup run with selectable reporting features
• All functions of the program can also be controlled by command line parameters and switches (automated backup using batch files)

  Address Book 1.5

• MS-Excel® like table with freely configurable columns
• Quick navigation with alphabetic tab register plus sorting and find functions
• Print-out formats DIN A4 landscape and DIN A6 portrait for filing in a ring binder as a small, handy address book
• Easy copying of the address part of a data set to the clipboard (formatted ready for pasting into a letter)
• Double-clicking a cell containing a phone number (subscriber line or mobile phone) will start the dialing of this phone number (optionally with with a selectable call-by-call dialing prefix)
• Double-clicking a cell containing an e-mail address will invoke the composer of the default e-mail client (the clicked address will be automatically copied to the address field)
• Double-clicking a cell containing an Internet address will invoke the default web browser (the clicked address will be copied to the address field, if necessary automatic login to the Internet)
• Import and export of the address lists also as CSV files (for data exchange with MS-Excel®)
• Help function now also compatible to Windows 7/8/10

  Mortgage

• Inputs: Initial loan, nominal interest rate, total monthly rate or initial repayment rate, repayment interval, extra repayments and inflation rate
• Results: Annual expenses, interest sum, interest sum corrected for inflation, sum of expenses, sum of expenses corrected for inflation, remaining loan and term of the loan
• Table listing the remaining loan and the time line of repayments at monthly intervals (can be copied to the clipboard as plain text)
• Graphic showing the remaining loan, the interest and the repayment (can be copied to the clipboard both as a metafile graphic and as a bitmap)
• Printing of the inputs, of the results, of the time line of repayments and of the graphic
• Saving of the inputs, of the results, of the time line of repayments (to a TXT or CSV file) and of the graphic (to a BMP or EMF file)
• Helpful in preparing for negotiations with banks and for critically checking their offers

  Alarm 2.0

• Choice of the operation modes waiting period (relative to the start of the program) and time of day (absolute time)
• Alarm can optionally be auto-repeated at a user defined time interval until terminated by the user
• Times adjustable in the range between  0 minutes  and  24 hours  or between  00:00  and  23:59 o'clock
• After the waiting period has elapsed a user defined message text will be displayed and a sound file can be played (supported audio file types:  CDA, MID, MP3, WAV, WMA)
• Context pop-up menu to select the operation mode, to activate the sound and for choosing the sound file and the user language 

  Terminator 2.0

• Login time window selectable in the range between  00:00 a.m.  and  11:59 p.m. 
• Maximum daily login time selectable in the range between  1 min  and  23 h 59 min 
• The total daily login time can be split up into several sessions per day (cumulative time measurement)
• Choice of two actions after running out of login time: logout or shutdown
• Autostart of the program at the user login time
• Automatic language selection between English and German depending on the Windows language setting
• Help function now also compatible to Windows 7/8/10

  Runs Forever

• Also suitable as an introduction to the Windows® task manager

  Speedy Gonzalez

• This program (or a link to it) should be copied to the autostart directory of your worst enemy only !
• But it is entirely harmless to users who can handle Windows® and its task manager without a mouse only by keyboard inputs.

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