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Xray – A minimal screenshot tool for developers (Rust/Tauri)

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1 points·by wlswo·5 mesi fa·4 comments

Show HN: Xray – A minimal screenshot tool for developers (Rust/Tauri)

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wlswo
·5 mesi fa·discuss
thx
wlswo
·5 mesi fa·discuss
Implementation Details: We currently use a hybrid polling approach rather than a pure event-driven one.

Mechanism: The Rust backend runs a high-priority background loop using AXUIElementCopyElementAtPosition to track the element under the cursor.

Optimization: To minimize overhead, the polling frequency is throttled and only ramps up when the overlay is active. We use CoreGraphics to first detect mouse movement delta before triggering the heavier Accessibility API calls.
wlswo
·5 mesi fa·discuss
Efficiency is not the same as meaning. If you only valued the output, you’ve already lost
wlswo
·5 mesi fa·discuss
so sick
wlswo
·5 mesi fa·discuss
Interesting approach. It’s essentially a Just-in-Time documentation layer