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Also for inactive windows...
Authored by: mdouma46 on Aug 30, '02 05:53:51PM

Also in the Finder, you can use the scroll wheel to even scroll up and down in columns of windows that aren't even the active window. I know IE has supported that for quite a while, and I've found it really useful. It's nice when you have 5 or 6 windows open, spread over two monitors. I can find exactly what I'm looking for--that URL or name/location, etc.-- all without leaving the current window I'm in. Hold down Command and then click on the titlebar of the windows that are in the background and you can move them around without making them active. Then once you've dug down to the window you want, you can hover over it and use the scroll wheel to scroll up and down within the window w/o making it active. This works in IE and the Finder--I just tried it in Terminal w/ several windows, and the scroll wheel held over an inactive window wouldn't work. Maybe it only works in Carbon apps?

Within a particular program, you can even resize any of it's open windows without making them active. Just hold down the Command key and drag on the resize "thingy" in the bottom-right of the window. For example, if you're in IE, you can resize any of its inactive windows.

If an application is Cocoa based, and it's not the currently active application, you can even resize its windows as well (without making it active)! For example, I'm in IE and I have a Terminal window open in the background. I can resize the Terminal window from within IE by simply holding down the Command key before I click on the resize "thingy". This doesn't work for Carbon-based apps that are in the background though. For example, if I try to do this with a Finder window that's in the background, the Finder becomes the active application.

Anyway, hope this helps.....



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