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Toggle iTunes' window state with a keystroke
Why bother using a complex AppleScript or expensive shareware app when the functionality is built into Panther. Just add a keyboard shortcut via the Keyboard & Mouse Preference Pane. I use Command+Option+Z in the Finder for Create Archive, but (as I just discovered) the Panther Finder has no Zoom Window menu selection, so I selected Command+Option+Z for Zoom in All Applications.
Anyway, just restart the application (such as iTunes) and you'll find the chosen shortcut next to Zoom in the Window menu, if the app has such a selection available.
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Toggle iTunes' window state with a keystroke
Actually, Command+Control+Z would be a better choice for iTunes. The behavoir of the zoom for iTunes is different depending on the state of the option key.
When the option key is not used, clicking the zoom button changes the window state between the full window and the small control window. When the option key is held down, the window zooms like the finder windows, changing the window size to fit the screen. By using Command+Option+Z iTunes sees the option key as down, and the window just changes size, it does not toggle between full and controls.
Toggle iTunes' window state with a keystroke
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Toggle iTunes' window state with a keystroke
Do you know if Command+Shift+Z has any conventional assignments? I've been using that key shortcut for Zoom for some time now and the only conflict I've had is with the Redo command in Mail. Since I rarely have to use Redo, and since for some reason Zoom takes precedence over Redo I have no problem. Are there any other conflicts anyone can foresee?
Toggle iTunes' window state with a keystroke
I tried using Control-Shift-Z for "Zoom" and Control-Shift-A for "Bring All to Front" for All Applications in the 10.3.2 Keyboard Shortcuts tab of the Keyboard & Mouse System Preference Pane. Neither seems to have any effect. Must short-cuts set there contain the Command key as well to function?
Hmm... That doesn't seem to have any effect either. Does one have to log out or quit apps first for these new shortcuts to work? Argh! The newly-defined shortcuts have no effect in a subsequently-launched Cocoa app. What gives?? I can't afford to mess around with logging out & back in right now....
Toggle iTunes' window state with a keystroke
For me the Keyboard Shortcut for the Zoom menu just adjusts the window size and position, it doesn't reduce the window to the controller/display only size. Selecting the menu command Zoom with the mouse does do this. Since that's what is supposed to be activated by the shortcut, it seems that this should work correctly. Anyone else have success?
Toggle iTunes' window state with a keystroke
As mentioned by others, this is most likely due to using the option key in your shortcut for "Zoom" in iTunes. Clicking "Zoom" in the "window" menu of iTunes while holding down the option key will zoom the window to a size necessary to view the whole screen (e.g., all columns), clicking zoom without the option key held will toggle normal/mini modes. Change the keyboard shortcut so it doesn't use Option (e.g., Command-Control-z as others have suggested and which I've been using for a little over a month now) and it should behave correctly.
Toggle iTunes' window state with a keystroke
I wouldn't recommend setting a system-wide (e.g., "All Applications") shortcut for Zoom. Some apps actually have a "Zoom" submenu (the first to come to mind is Windows Media Player but I know there are others) and the keyboard shortcut seems to interfere with these submenus, making them unselectable. Just thought people might want to know. |
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