Starting with OS X 10.7, Apple changed its method for resizing windows. In the Classic Mac OS and through the first six releases of OS X, you had to resize windows using the tab at the bottom. Starting with Mac OS X 10.7, Apple changed its method for resizing windows. In the first six releases of OS X, to resize windows, you had to use the tab at the bottom-right of the windows. However, with OS X Lion, Apple changed this behavior to give resizing controls along all edges of the application and document windows. Mar 10, 2016 Viewing Mac UI animations in slow motion One of the animations that the Mac is known for is the minimizing animation you see above when you minimize an application to your Dock. The two most common animations are ‘Genie’ and ‘Scale,’ and although Genie is the more popular animation, I’m personally a fan of the Scale animation. How to Install Bluestacks on PC and MAC 2013 (Windows 8,Windows 7,Windows XP,Windows Vista) Tutorial. Cinch is a great app which does the snaps pretty well like windows 7. However, the one thing which frustrated me beyond belief was, why, after hitting the yellow “minimize” button, wouldn’t it restore when I alt-tabbed to it, or how to restore it once minimized. That was so annoying.
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wow!
i'm sitting here writing this on a safari window that's seriously warped!
totally freakish, really illustrates the power of Aqua and mac osx's graphics rendering. scrolling a webpage kind of makes me queasy to look at it... it's too strange!
i'm sitting here writing this on a safari window that's seriously warped!
totally freakish, really illustrates the power of Aqua and mac osx's graphics rendering. scrolling a webpage kind of makes me queasy to look at it... it's too strange!
there is one more thing i discovered with this hint after i submitted it.
Exposé does NOT act on warped windows. i can't decide if it this good or not, but i though you might want to know.
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vacuums do not suck. they merely provide an absence that allows other objects to take the place of what becomes absent.
Exposé does NOT act on warped windows. i can't decide if it this good or not, but i though you might want to know.
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vacuums do not suck. they merely provide an absence that allows other objects to take the place of what becomes absent.
Scale Effect For Minimizing Windows On Mac Os
This is the coolest thing ever.
I'm watching the 'Janet Jackson Superbowl Halftime Incident' .mpeg in a warped Quicktime window.
They totally planned that btw. :P
- CB
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I'm watching the 'Janet Jackson Superbowl Halftime Incident' .mpeg in a warped Quicktime window.
They totally planned that btw. :P
- CB
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My ill-matic homepage:
http://rj3.net/cowboy/
Well, I must say, this is a trip! Haha!
Y'know, I can actually see one 'sort of' use for this. If you keep your minimize effect on 'scale' as I do, you can minimize a window to about half size, kill the dock and stil be able to use it. I'm keeping open a Safari browser window for a site I'm monitoring this way right now! It's great because it takes up less space and I can have it viewable most of the time. I can even use the refresh command periodically. Cool hint!
Y'know, I can actually see one 'sort of' use for this. If you keep your minimize effect on 'scale' as I do, you can minimize a window to about half size, kill the dock and stil be able to use it. I'm keeping open a Safari browser window for a site I'm monitoring this way right now! It's great because it takes up less space and I can have it viewable most of the time. I can even use the refresh command periodically. Cool hint!
Unfortunately, the links don't move, meaning that you have click where the link would be in an unwarped window, which, when outside of the warped window, means they are inaccessable.
In a warped window in opposite to a scaled (linear) one, one can, however, always scroll, to bring the link in question close the top, where the position of the links only move a little bit.
In a warped window in opposite to a scaled (linear) one, one can, however, always scroll, to bring the link in question close the top, where the position of the links only move a little bit.
safari 1.2 supports tabbing from link to link, that fixes your problem of your click target being wrong (kinda like my resize target)
i've also found that iChat windows act _verry_ strange... selecting text at the same time as moving the window!
lol
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vacuums do not suck. they merely provide an absence that allows other objects to take the place of what becomes absent.
i've also found that iChat windows act _verry_ strange... selecting text at the same time as moving the window!
lol
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vacuums do not suck. they merely provide an absence that allows other objects to take the place of what becomes absent.
I read that the next version of Safari will let you tab or option-tab to links. That way, you can see which link is selected, then hit return.
For the record, this froze my computer and I needed to hit the reset button. Couldn't force quit or anything.
It doesn't work on my computer; the genie effect slows my PBG4/400 down enough to make the killall command not execute until the minimize is done. You need the latest and greatest to play with this. Or at least newer than my PowerBook...
yeah, i can only get it to work 2/3 of the time on my TiBook/500. looks like i'm at the bottom of the barrel!
lol
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vacuums do not suck. they merely provide an absence that allows other objects to take the place of what becomes absent.
lol
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vacuums do not suck. they merely provide an absence that allows other objects to take the place of what becomes absent.
I sucseeded in my 300Mhz iBook. Trick is just press the shift key when you genie a window.
heh- play with your dock pinning. one can get the genie effect to distort from any corner of the page.
i agree with an above poster...scale effect is actually useful--especially on a laptop with minimal real estate.
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if it aint broke, break it!
i agree with an above poster...scale effect is actually useful--especially on a laptop with minimal real estate.
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if it aint broke, break it!
Someone should just come up with a shareware app to let you warp and resize all windows at will...
does anyone know of a development environment where one could resize Mac OS X windows at will? I'd like to scale in the X and Y direction independently.
and almost 5 years later, this still works just great! :D
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vacuums do not suck. they merely provide an absence that allows other objects to take the place of what becomes absent.
vacuums do not suck. they merely provide an absence that allows other objects to take the place of what becomes absent.
Uninvisible,
Welcome to Apple Discussions.
If you double click on the title bar of this page while holding the shift key you will see the difference.
You must have System Preferences>Appearance >Click in the scroll bar to: (Minimize when double clidking a window title bar) selected for my example to work, but you can see it in any time that you select minimize while holding the shift key.
;~)
Any special effect such as Expose will react the same way with the shift key depressed.
Message was edited by: Ferd II
Welcome to Apple Discussions.
If you double click on the title bar of this page while holding the shift key you will see the difference.
You must have System Preferences>Appearance >Click in the scroll bar to: (Minimize when double clidking a window title bar) selected for my example to work, but you can see it in any time that you select minimize while holding the shift key.
;~)
Any special effect such as Expose will react the same way with the shift key depressed.
Message was edited by: Ferd II
Scale Effect For Minimizing Windows On Mac Catalina
Dec 11, 2005 3:38 PM