iconize a window w/o click?

[G. Mark Stewart]

Heath Raftery <hraftery@myrealbox.com> wrote in message news:<bet7fq$s8j$1@seagoon.newcastle.edu.au>...

> In comp.sys.mac.system G. Mark Stewart <gmark@svs.com> wrote:

> > I'm looking for a utility that would automatically make active an open
> > window or one that automatically opens a window that has been shrunken
> > to a desktop icon.

>
> Does it need to be with the mouse? Typically in OS X, Cmd-Tab will
> switch applications and Cmd-~ will cycle the windows in the current
> application. Works very well IME. Miss it terribly on this WinBox.
>
> As for 'shrunken' windows - I'm going to guess you mean windows
> minimised to the Dock. I don't know of anyway to bring them back up

Not to the dock -- I was envisioning something that would shrink a window
(or set of windows!) to small icons in their original positions (or as close
to "original" position as a smaller box can be), sort of like Windowshade.
But not the window bar (although that might be an alternative).

When the mouse pointer passed over that small icon, it would automatically
expand (again, sort of like windowshade, but without needing a mouse click).

When the mouse pointer left that expanded window, the window would shrink
to an icon again. IOW, mouse-on-icon->expand, mouse-off-window->shrink.

Now, if there were way to apply this behavior to ALL windows of a particular
APPLICATION, that'd be much better. Basically what this is is just a wrinkle
on the "hide X/show X/hide others" feature of the Mac desktop.

I seem to remember a shareware app that was like this that had a name that
had something to do with sailing or something (if that helps at all).

Mark

[Laurent Daudelin]

In message <20030714104536281-0700@news.la.sbcglobal.net>, matt neuburg
<matt@tidbits.com> wrote:

>
> In <bet7fq$s8j$1@seagoon.newcastle.edu.au> Heath Raftery wrote:

> > As for 'shrunken' windows - I'm going to guess you mean windows
> > minimised to the Dock. I don't know of anyway to bring them back up
> > without a mouse click (short of turning on menu keyboard navigation
> > and using the Window menu).

>
> On my machine I can bring up a minimised window with control-F3, arrow
> keys, and Return. No mouse needed. m.

Or you can circle through all opened windows in the frontmost app using
Command + ~ (or Command + Shift + ~ ). Windows that are minimized will be
maximized.

-Laurent.
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