I found this full screen SIMBL bundle today that allows one to work with any app in full screen mode. Works great in TextMate.
http://ianhenderson.org/megazoomer.html
Ciao Martin
Martin Ström wrote:
I found this full screen SIMBL bundle today that allows one to work with any app in full screen mode. Works great in TextMate.
That looks pretty good! Only problem is that the drawer disappears if you go to fullscreen mode.
And it's a shame it only works with a very select group of apps. I'll keep my semi-full-screen mode scripts[1] handy for those other cases ;)
Jeroen.
[1]: Based on Merlin Mann's semi fullscreen mode approach, I created some simple scripts to launch/quit the three apps involved. Have them for download, but it's pretty simple to make.
... how did you get this to work with TextMate? Does not seem to work here :-(
Berndt.
On 3 Jul 2006, at 14:49, Martin Ström wrote:
I found this full screen SIMBL bundle today that allows one to work with any app in full screen mode. Works great in TextMate.
http://ianhenderson.org/megazoomer.html
Ciao Martin
The shortcut (⌘↩) wont work but just choose "Mega Zoom" from the window menu. Or create a QuickSilver trigger using "Current Application" → "Show Menu Items".
To install, just make sure you've got SIMBL [1] installed, but the bundle file in ~/Library/Application Support/SIMB/plugins and restart TextMate
[1]: http://culater.net/software/SIMBL/SIMBL.php
Martin
On 7/3/06, Berndt Farwer farwer@mac.com wrote:
... how did you get this to work with TextMate? Does not seem to work here :-(
Berndt.
On 3 Jul 2006, at 14:49, Martin Ström wrote:
I found this full screen SIMBL bundle today that allows one to work with any app in full screen mode. Works great in TextMate.
http://ianhenderson.org/megazoomer.html
Ciao Martin
For new threads USE THIS: textmate@lists.macromates.com (threading gets destroyed and the universe will collapse if you don't) http://lists.macromates.com/mailman/listinfo/textmate
Thanks for your help,
turned out to be a problem on Intel-Based Macs, but the developer posted me a universal build immediately.
Berndt
On 4 Jul 2006, at 00:54, Martin Ström wrote:
The shortcut (⌘↩) wont work but just choose "Mega Zoom" from the window menu. Or create a QuickSilver trigger using "Current Application" → "Show Menu Items".
To install, just make sure you've got SIMBL [1] installed, but the bundle file in ~/Library/Application Support/SIMB/plugins and restart TextMate
Martin
On 7/3/06, Berndt Farwer farwer@mac.com wrote:
... how did you get this to work with TextMate? Does not seem to work here :-(
Berndt.
On 3 Jul 2006, at 14:49, Martin Ström wrote:
I found this full screen SIMBL bundle today that allows one to work with any app in full screen mode. Works great in TextMate.
http://ianhenderson.org/megazoomer.html
Ciao Martin
[Martin Ström - 00:54, 4 Jul 2006 ]:
The shortcut (⌘↩) wont work but just choose "Mega Zoom" from the window menu. Or create a QuickSilver trigger using "Current Application" → "Show Menu Items".
My 2 eurocents here: In System Preferences -> Keyboard & Mouse -> Keyboard Shortcuts, you can add a shortcut that will work for you. Simply click the + select 'All applications' (selected by default) and type 'Mega Zoom' in the Menu Title box (case sensitive). In the Keyboard Shortcut box you can type your personal preferred shortcut (I set mine to F8) and then click 'Add' Close System Preferences.
For the new shortcut to work you need to restart the program you want to use it in (I generally log out and back in, makes it work 'everywhere')
cheers,
Tanja
On Jul 10, 2006, at 5:14 AM, Tanja wrote:
In the Keyboard Shortcut box you can type your personal preferred shortcut (I set mine to F8) and then click 'Add'
I have Zoom & Zoom Window set to ⌃⌘z (control-command-z) which is the one used by iTunes. Based on that I set Mega Zoom to ⌃⌥⇧⌘Z (control-option-shift- command-Z) since i'm not likely to use it too often.
thomas Aylott—subtleGradient
On Jul 3, 2006, at 8:49 AM, Martin Ström wrote:
I found this full screen SIMBL bundle today that allows one to work with any app in full screen mode. Works great in TextMate.
Also check out this full-screen editor: http://www.hogbaysoftware.com/ product/writeroom
-- Daniel
I was actually just playing with the new version of Megazoomer amid some SIMBL hacking I'm doing, myself, and discovered just how well this works with TextMate, so I dropped by to see if anyone had suggested it as a solution for the oft-desired full-screen-mode, and lo, here is this thread on the same day...
This certainly does raise my interest in the next-gen UI, with multi-pane editors and a more Mail.app-style replacement for the project drawer, etc. -- this mode will be *fantastic* when split-panes come to pass.
In the meanwhile, however, it's interesting to note that Megazooming just one window in a given app, you can still keep the menu bar hidden while navigating to other windows within the app, so you can e.g. create a blank "background" window, megazoom it, and then cmd-~ and scale your other windows up to reclaim the 20px of title bar space, have the totally blank background, etc.
I'm getting really tempted to hack Megazoomer to let you zoom multiple windows side-by-side into halves or thirds of the screen-width. After that, all we need is to support windows from multiple apps at once, and perhaps make the root magazoomed frame into a single split-view and bam! New micro-window-manager ;) -jrk
On 7/3/06, Daniel Harple dharple@generalconsumption.org wrote:
On Jul 3, 2006, at 8:49 AM, Martin Ström wrote:
I found this full screen SIMBL bundle today that allows one to work with any app in full screen mode. Works great in TextMate.
Also check out this full-screen editor: http://www.hogbaysoftware.com/ product/writeroom
-- Daniel
For new threads USE THIS: textmate@lists.macromates.com (threading gets destroyed and the universe will collapse if you don't) http://lists.macromates.com/mailman/listinfo/textmate
On Jul 3, 2006, at 11:41 PM, Jonathan Ragan-Kelley wrote:
I'm getting really tempted to hack Megazoomer to let you zoom multiple windows side-by-side into halves or thirds of the screen-width. After that, all we need is to support windows from multiple apps at once, and perhaps make the root magazoomed frame into a single split-view and bam! New micro-window-manager ;)
Sounds a little like wmii[1]. I have it running here in X11, but it is no fun because I use few X11 apps.
[1]: http://wmii.de/
-- Daniel
Sounds a little like wmii[1]. I have it running here in X11, but it is no fun because I use few X11 apps.
Yeah, that's exactly the idea -- Ion was my first inspiration, but wmii is really fantastic these days, and is most clearly where I'm looking.
For now, the super-simple hack just to get three columns side-by-side:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jrk/182262643/
-jrk
On Jul 3, 2006, at 11:41 PM, Jonathan Ragan-Kelley wrote: …
This certainly does raise my interest in the next-gen UI, with multi-pane editors and a more Mail.app-style replacement for the project drawer, etc. -- this mode will be *fantastic* when split-panes come to pass.
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I'm getting really tempted to hack Megazoomer to let you zoom multiple windows side-by-side into halves or thirds of the screen-width. After that, all we need is to support windows from multiple apps at once, and perhaps make the root magazoomed frame into a single split-view and bam! New micro-window-manager ;) -jrk
Oh carp!!!1! That would be total awesomeness. I've been fantasizing about that for years. I just don't have the first clue how to do it.
I've always wanted to be able to group windows from any random apps together in a split view. Windows has the feature to select a couple of windows and tile them, but that's not quite what i want. I want to be able to group windows together and be able to resize both at once using the space between them, just like a split view.
If we had that ability then we wouldn't necessarily need any apps to natively support split view. You'd be able to to your own split views with any windows in the system.
It'd be hot to group safari, firefox, remote desktop & textmate all together in a split view... or group my RSS reader with a safari window... or group TextMate with a finder or pathfinder window.
thomas Aylott—subtleGradient
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