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🎵 PixelAt

A C++ desktop app for capturing screen pixels and applying custom formatting.

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📍 Overview

PixelAt lets you capture an image block around your cursor, view pixel values, and freezing capturing for detailed analysis. Focused on UX, it features a custom title bar, hotkeys, and portable deployment.

✨ Technologies

  • C++ (Visual Studio)
  • WinAPI & GDI
  • Custom DLL wrapping WinAPI (av)
  • Custom UI design

🚀 Key Features

  • Zoomed pixel capture around cursor
  • Freeze capture for examination
  • Copy pixel RGB values to clipboard
  • Hotkeys & user-modifiable presets
  • Version history & About window
  • Portable & easy to deploy

👩🏻‍🎓 Skills & Learning

  • Custom UI creation (title bar, buttons)
  • Hotkeys & user interactions
  • Flicker-free fast rendering
  • Parsing user-defined formats (printf-style)
  • Portable software deployment

🚦 How to Run

  1. Go to Releases
  2. Download the .zip
  3. Extract anywhere and run PixelAt.exe

🚀 Future Improvements

  • Refactor main.cpp to reduce size; move core logic to separate modules
  • Add CMake support for easier building and cross-platform compatibility
  • Implement Git workflow for tracking new changes efficiently
  • Add a bug reporting form within the app for user feedback

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