throwing up 2 documents on a 24" screen Quick?

[ericlp]

I am wondering. I like to keep word on one side and fire fox on the other.

Do they make a macro that you can just click and it resizes the screen in half to put word on one side and firefox on the other?

That would be cool. I find it a pain to open them both up and resize them to fit. Sometiems I accidentally close one and have to do the dance of moving and resizing again.

Thanks for help or recommendation on a 3rd party app to help with this.

 

[ericlp]

I know, I kinda answered my own question...



But I thought I'd share with you guys here in case anyone was wondering about how to do the same thing.

edit link wasn't working... check out the vids below.

Texthttp://winsplit-revolution.com/screenshots/videos-demos

Seems like it's a free program and if you like it you can donate. Really cool program, if you have better solutions to this then add to the thread

 

[Blazer7]

Originally posted by: ericlp
I find it a pain to open them both up and resize them to fit. Sometiems I accidentally close one and have to do the dance of moving and resizing again.

I do not understand why it is so hard for you to arrange a couple of windows on your desktop.

You can assign shortcuts for both firefox and word and as soon as you execute both programs you can left click on the taskbar and vertically tile your windows. This is as easy as it gets without having to resort to 3rd party programs etc.

 

[ericlp]

Very funny, maybe it has or had not occur to you that I might want one window bigger then the other, Or maybe I want two windows open side by side but notpad open at the bottom that stretches across the entire screen?

You can do this with One click with VM Recorder and windows revolution.

No mucking around everyday you get it how ya like it and done.

I'm thinking about buying a 30-32" just so I can have 4-5 windows open (productively) the size and where I want em. Windows Tile is a joke.

 

[MarcVenice]

Blaze, when you have more then 2 things opened, but only want 2 of them to share the screen, windows tiling isn't going to work.

Thanks for the link eric, i've bookmarked it. I often have scientific research papers opened, and when Word, when writing a paper, I used to do the same as you, mess around, and resize the windows myself. This little app will make life a little easier

 

[Blazer7]

No really it did not occur. Not at all. That's because I am in a very similar position myself. Recently I purchased a 24" monitor just because I needed the bigger surface in order to work with multiple windows more easily. I use shortcuts and horizontal tiling all the time. I use two ways to do that. The 1st is from the taskbar while the 2nd is from my keyboard. I'm using Logitech's G15 and its software does support macro recording.

I've watched the videos from your link and I can say that I wasn't impressed. I guess that that utility is not what I want.

Anyways, why would you want 1 window to be bigger than the other?

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Oooppss......

Marc posted while I was typing


I agree that tiling is not the best way to arrange multiple windows if you have more than 2 but the reason I assumed that this was the case here is because of what ericlp mentioned in his 1st post.

"Do they make a macro that you can just click and it resizes the screen in half to put word on one side and firefox on the other?"

The mention of spliting the screen in half with word on one side and firefox on the other prompted my 1st post. That and the title of the thread.

 

[dakels]

I use both mac and PC and was looking for functionality like this too. On OS X, Expose makes things really easy to handle windows. I also used to use a little app called desktop switcher or something. It seems to be incorporated into Panther now as fast user switching. I'm not sure if this is the same. The app I used to use would basically allow you to switch between multiple desktops. You could have a group of windows in 1 desktop, groups in others, up to like 8, possibly more. It only took 1 second (key stroke) to switch between the desktops. This way I used to have like 4 images up in photoshop in 1 desktop, then switch to another desktop with some Illustrator designs, then another desktop that had quark layout, then another that had web pages, etc etc. It allowed for super fast and efficient multitasking. Even now as I type this I have like 10 browser tabs open, 4 different browser windows (sub programs), 5+ folder windows, 5 apps, etc. It gets to be a pain switching on 1 single windows XP bar that tends to start combining them when I have too many.