How do you deal with window positions?
How do you deal with window positions?
One of the only annoyances that I have with "living portable" is windows placement. I have a couple of apps that remember their window positions, which is nice and all, but at work I use a 24" widescreen monitor, while at home I have a laptop with a much smaller screen. The result is windows that find their way far off the screen.
I wrote a small hotkey (gotta love AutoHotkey) to move the active window to the upper left hand corner of the screen, and have also used Winlister (http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/winlister.html) although it isn't' strictly portable.
Just interested to hear if others have the same issue and how you deal with it.
DasFX
I wrote a small hotkey (gotta love AutoHotkey) to move the active window to the upper left hand corner of the screen, and have also used Winlister (http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/winlister.html) although it isn't' strictly portable.
Just interested to hear if others have the same issue and how you deal with it.
DasFX
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There's an old app on Tin's Toys which I've used to wow the users when they lose a window: DeskLite. Here's a link - http://desktopian.org/lsapps/desklite.zip
It lists all open windows. A double-click on any list entry centers the window. And it's portable!
It lists all open windows. A double-click on any list entry centers the window. And it's portable!
Re: How do you deal with window positions?
I've added WinLister to the DB. The configuration is now saved to a file, instead of the registry.dasfx wrote:... and have also used Winlister (http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/winlister.html) although it isn't' strictly portable. ...
Re: How do you deal with window positions?
ThanksChecker wrote:I've added WinLister to the DB.
Re: How do you deal with window positions?
@DasFX: Would you care to publish your AHK script?
Re: How do you deal with window positions?
dasfx last visited: 07 Dec 2007, 03:08usdcs wrote:@DasFX: Would you care to publish your AHK script?
Re: How do you deal with window positions?
Whew! I didn't realize that!
I was just wrestling with this issue. Fortunately, it's solved for now.
Thanks!
I was just wrestling with this issue. Fortunately, it's solved for now.
Thanks!
Re: How do you deal with window positions?
There are two interesting applications to handle windows positions: AutoSizer and WinSize2.
I've got better results with the last one, athough it's not very intuitive.
The bad side is that none of them is portable, but perhaps good candidates to a wrapper.
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I've got better results with the last one, athough it's not very intuitive.
The bad side is that none of them is portable, but perhaps good candidates to a wrapper.
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[Moderator note: further discussion of WinSize2 was split to a separate thread.]
Re: How do you deal with window positions?
This is a misconception that all AHK and AutoIt applications are not Portable, it's just the same as any other language, e.g. cpp is Portable until you request to write to the registry.It seemed strange that an AutoHotKey app was not natively portable...
Re: How do you deal with window positions?
You're right about that, but I was referring to the fact that it is difficult to find an AutoIt/AutoHotKey application that does not offer, at least, the possibility of making it behave as portable.guinness wrote:This is a misconception that all AHK and AutoIt applications are not Portable, it's just the same as any other language, e.g. cpp is Portable until you request to write to the registry.
Is it perhaps a matter of tradition among AutoIt/AutoHotKey developers?
Re: How do you deal with window positions?
It's pure coincidence that most AutoIt/AHK developers prefer to write to an INI file than the registry and it could be due to lack of knowledge too for some!
I personally don't (not because I don't understand the registry) but I prefer use an INI file, just the same as Opera does.
I personally don't (not because I don't understand the registry) but I prefer use an INI file, just the same as Opera does.