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An Applescript to match window heights and positions
Authored by: mdouma46 on Jan 14, '04 10:23:26AM

I love exposé, but IMHO, I'd rather have the ability to tile or cascade my windows of the current app before I had to use exposé. I mean, heck, even Windows 3.1 had that option!

While many Carbon applications have this implemented in the actual application itself, no Cocoa apps have this feature.

I've been dreaming of coming up with an applescript that you could run from the script menu that would automatically tile the windows of the frontmost app or cascade the windows of the frontmost app. And you could always use GUI scripting in case the application itself wasn't scriptable. The only difficult part I would imagine is trying to figure out the algorithm to use to arrange the windows, based on the number of windows you have and the screen resolution you're running at (and possibly multiple monitors).

I've got too many projects I'm in the middle of, but I hope to be able to do this some day.....



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