Software to measure Mouse travel?

Bill Tuthill wrote:
> Does anybody know of Windows or Linux/X11 software
> to measure mouse travel? In pixels would be fine,
> I can convert. TIA.
>
> What I'm trying to do is measure river distance
> on a topographic map displayed on some website.
> The river has a lot of bends in it.
>
I would do it using a CAD system - mostly because I've already got one.
DesignCad can import a picture (you'd have to do a screen capture)
that I would trace a line over. Scaling would be very easy this way
too. You can get older versions of DC for under $15 from EBay.

In article <454fe4f7@news.meer.net>, Bill Tuthill <ccreekinm> wrote:

You are serious aren't you?

>Does anybody know of Windows or Linux/X11 software
>to measure mouse travel? In pixels would be fine,
>I can convert. TIA.

You want a digital planometer?

>What I'm trying to do is measure river distance
>on a topographic map displayed on some website.
>The river has a lot of bends in it.

Comp.graphics.visualization.

You want a numeric variant of the Xerox PARC software lens.

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