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From: Tom Harrington on 20 Mar 2010 18:14 In article <200320101113324342%nospam(a)nospam.invalid>, nospam <nospam(a)nospam.invalid> wrote: > In article <tph-B98F3F.11202920032010(a)localhost>, Tom Harrington > <tph(a)pcisys.no.spam.dammit.net> wrote: > > > > Be nice if one could resize a window that is one right of a big > > > screen wider in one operation rather than two: you move it left > > > and then drag bottom right. One way would be to provide resize > > > corner on bottom left. In fact, I vaguely recall having a window > > > placing app on 8 or was it OS 6? You worked out the size and > > > favourite window placements and had key commands. With > > > Applescript I think. I recall it being very useful once one had > > > remembered the key commands. > > > > I don't normally promote my own software here, but that's one of the > > things MondoMouse (http://www.atomicbird.com/mondomouse) enables-- > > resizing from any corner. You press a modifier key combo (by default, > > cmd-option, but you can change it) and whichever window is under the > > mouse resizes from whichever of its corners is closest to the mouse. > > according to macworld, it doesn't work properly in snow leopard. they > suggest a new utility called zooom. > > <http://www.macworld.com/article/147234/2010/03/zooom.html> MondoMouse was updated _yesterday_, so that article is out of date. -- Tom "Tom" Harrington Independent Mac OS X developer since 2002 http://www.atomicbird.com/
From: nospam on 20 Mar 2010 19:19
In article <slrnhqaku7.1g29.g.kreme(a)cerebus.local>, Lewis <g.kreme(a)gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote: > >> Either MacWorld is wrong or out of date. Mondo Mouse was updated very > >> soon after SL's release to be compatible. (30-Sep) > > > or that you didn't read the article, since they mention that version, > > yet they still had problems. > > Creative snipping on your part. nope. > I tried out MondoMouse under SL. I didn't notice it not working. that doesn't mean nobody had problems. the author of the article and some number of readers did have problems. however, mondomouse has been updated, apparently on the same day the article was written, so hopefully all of the issues have been addressed. |