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Re: Sizer

Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2017 5:13 pm
by Userfriendly
Special wrote:Seems like a big let down, missing a lot from v3.4 and can't even import v3.4 to v4.0, can't really be bothered to set up my 30 some window sizes again.
Yeah, I managed to work around it by forcing it to create a default sizer.xml in C:\USER\AppData\Roaming\Sizer\sizer.xml and moving it to the program folder.. It only creates it if you actually change the default configuration or hit OK and Apply on any window size config. After that I edited using the find and replace all method. Stripping the unneeded options and keeping the mostly identical config names.

Old = <size description="640x480" height="480" width="640"/>
New = <resize description="640×400" height="400" width="640"/>

So basically going in the old v3.4 sizer.xml and renaming size to resize and just keeping description, width and height. Everything else is different in the v4.0 so I deleted the other options with find and replace. Then I neatly copy and paste all of my window sizes into the new v4.0 sizer.xml.

The default v4.0 config already has a bunch of 4:3, 16:9, 16:10, and common Youtube video sizes separated by groups which is nice.

The developer did a complete rewrite of the app so you should consider it as an early alpha preview. Not feature complete. Some buttons and menu's dont actually work and give out warnings saying so.

Re: Sizer

Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2017 5:11 am
by Midas
Edit: BTW, latest Sizer 4 version is Dev Build 556, dated 2017-01-30.

Apart from a couple of quirks in Windows 8 or newer, the main changes appear to be these:

http://www.brianapps.net/sizer4/moredetails.html wrote:The downside is that Sizer no longer is able to do things that were possible in previous versions. This includes:
  • System menu integration. Sizer 4.0 no longer attempts to add entries to the system menu. This didn't always work in previous versions of Sizer anyway because target applications would create a popup menu that looks like the system menu rather than using the system provided one.
  • Snap to grid resizing. Snapping requires interfering with the target application. Sizer 4.0 no longer does this because of the risk of introducing incompatibilities.

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I guess I'll be keeping my v3.4 Dev Build 482 for the time being... :|

@userfriendly: valuable info. Thanks.

Re: Sizer - predefined window resizer

Posted: Tue May 12, 2020 4:13 pm
by Midas
Topic update: new Sizer v4.0 (dev640) released 2020-04-16 (changes and downloads at http://www.brianapps.net/sizer4/).

FTR, here are the changes since my last update post above:

[Dev Build 640] 16 Apr 2020 -- Various macro related changes: fix restoring minimized windows, add wildcard window qualifier and add mod operator.

[Dev Build 630] 11 Apr 2020 -- Workaround for maximize button right click with Chromium based browsers; force Windows Explorer to remember position after resize.

[Dev Build 622] 13 Jan 2020 -- Implement DPI awareness so icons and text are crisp on high DPI displays; add option to duplicate a menu item; fix saving of 'Allow move outside screen bounds' setting.

[Dev Build 570] 29 May 2018 -- Implement "Current as new entry" menu action. Macro additions: option to control frame effect compensation; keyword to position relative to workarea; keyword to qualify windows by active desktop.

[Dev Build 562] 1 Aug 2017 -- Workaround for issues when DPI scaling is enabled.