OnTopReplica: placement of the selected segment of any window on top of all windows
Productivity Technologies / / December 19, 2019
While working at the computer, we often use multiple applications simultaneously. And some of them must remain in sight even when you switch between windows. For example, sometimes we want to control the installation process of the program, the file download from the long-term Internet or watching a movie, not looking up from the creation of the document, from instant messaging friends and so on. n.
We can install an additional monitor for the expansion of the virtual workspace. However, it is impractical, if the need to keep before the eyes of several windows appear rarely.
In this case, extremely useful for us would be simple, but has a wealth of possibilities, OnTopReplica utility. With it can be placed over all windows user selected segment of any application, it is free to move around the screen and change the resolution.
Running OnTopReplica, you will see a blue box with the inscription Right-click here to start (Click the right mouse button here to start). It is in this window, and will display a small copy of the selected window or a part of it.
Clicking calls the program menu. To determine the window, a segment of which you want to place on top of other windows, click Select window (Select box).
Call up the menu again, click on the Select region (Select Region) and in the resulting window, select using the sprawling red frame the desired segment of the selected window. You can specify the location of the frame on the coordinate axes, as well as its width and height. If you want to use these settings in the future frame, then save them by clicking the button Save (Save). In the future, you have created presets will be available in the drop-down list Stored regions (Conservation Area).
After that, drag OnTopReplica to a convenient place on the screen and adjust its size, grabbing the mouse over the edge. Through the menu by right-clicking the mouse, you can adjust the transparency (Opacity), disable display window borders (Chrome) for more comfortable video viewing and minimize the program to tray (Minimize to tray).
It is also worth to mention yet another useful feature of the program - Click forwarding (Moving the mouse clicks). If you make it active in the menu, all of the clicks the left mouse button on the small copy of windows OnTopReplica will be transferred to the original window. This allows, for example, to control the media player without having to switch to its window.
Please note that you need to keep the original window is maximized, ie. A. With its counterpart in minimizing OnTopReplica ceases to be updated.
In addition, the cloning of a segment of the web page have to open it in a separate browser window. The fact is that when you go to another tab in the browser OnTopReplica displays the same segment, but from that tab, where you came from.
Despite these minor limitations, OnTopReplica - a convenient and useful tool, for which you can find a variety of uses.
The program works on Windows Vista and Windows 7 with Aero turned on in the presence of .NET Framework 2.0 and higher.
OnTopReplica
.NET Framework