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From: dorayme on 20 Mar 2010 03:19 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. -- dorayme
From: Tom Harrington on 20 Mar 2010 13:20 In article <dorayme-3F8C74.18191720032010(a)news.albasani.net>, dorayme <dorayme(a)optusnet.com.au> 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. -- Tom "Tom" Harrington Independent Mac OS X developer since 2002 http://www.atomicbird.com/
From: nospam on 20 Mar 2010 14:13 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>
From: dorayme on 20 Mar 2010 15:14 In article <tph-B98F3F.11202920032010(a)localhost>, Tom Harrington <tph(a)pcisys.no.spam.dammit.net> wrote: > In article <dorayme-3F8C74.18191720032010(a)news.albasani.net>, > dorayme <dorayme(a)optusnet.com.au> 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. Neat looking software. I like the mouse over window and drag thing, that is cool. If Apple built bottom left draggable corner, that would be nice too, no need then to press modifier keys. -- dorayme
From: nospam on 20 Mar 2010 18:05
In article <slrnhqa9fl.t22.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. |