Additional mouse utilities

[tankspice]

Description of the new feature / enhancement

I would love to see a mouse utility where one could draw a rectangle around something on their screen. It could be either the outline of a rectangle with a blank fill or a solid semi-transparent colored rectangle.

Scenario when this would be used?

When sharing a screen during an online meeting on Teams, Zoom, etc., I often want to draw attention to a particular section of the screen. Whether to highlight text, to show a button in SharePoint, to point out something on a webpage, or to show where to find something in VisionDSM, which is the software I use in the program I work on.

Supporting information

No response

[tankspice]

I should add - I would like to see this imaginary unicorn of a rectangle remain on screen until an action is taken, whether it is another click of the mouse, or pressing escape, or another key, or any key ("Where's the any key?" ~ Homer Simpson)

[TheJoeFin]

There is an awesome tool by SysInternals called ZoomIt which does just this. There is an issue open here to bring that into PowerToys.

/dup #149

[microsoft-github-policy-service]

Hi! We've identified this issue as a duplicate of another one that already exists on this Issue Tracker. This specific instance is being closed in favor of tracking the concern over on the referenced thread. Thanks for your report!

[TheJoeFin]

It is a good idea, just already captured by some other users. Check out this list of common issues. If you have more ideas, then you can see if anyone else has already suggested it and +👍 their issue.
https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/wiki/Common-Triage-Issue