AutoHotkey Community

[Andreone]

This is a very nice and helpful script. Thank you. It is now one that is started with Windows at my job

I found a little app called MultiArrows that adds a small arrow button in the caption bar of any windows, allowing to send the window to the next monitor.
majkinetor has wrote has example of how to add custom buttons in a caption bar TitleButton 0.31, so it should be easy.
Well, I wonder what you think about adding this to WindowPad?
This would be a nice feature, isn't it?

[randhirv]

I am using the new beta and trying to edit the ini file. I am using an ergo keyboard that does not have the numeric keypad.

I am unsure about which hotkeys to change. I am trying to change just the section here:

[Lexikos]

The 'Hotkeys' pseudo-command enables, disables, or toggles a set of hotkeys.
The first parameter is the name of the [Hotkeys: ...] section which it acts on.
If the second parameter is omitted, the hotkey section is automatically disabled when you release the key. Otherwise, you can specify On, Off or Toggle (in fact, any string of options supported by the built-in Hotkey command should work.)

It is possible to define all of your shortcuts in the [Hotkeys] section - for example:

[Lexikos]

[Ktafil]

Randhirv,

Maybe you want something like this:

[Lexikos]

[lundstrj]

Hi,

I just stumbled on this place a few minutes ago looking for a key to splitview (the quite expensive program which claims my trial period is over). Anyways, this WindowPad script of yours does everything splitview does, but with much neater hotkeys=) not to mention it comes at a much nicer price.

Really, from the bottom of my otherwise so dark soul, thank you!
I'll be sure to sweep this community for other goodies as soon as I get a chance to.

[Andreone]

Another request: show desktop only for a particular monitor.
Win+D already exists to show the desktop, but it minimizes all windows on all monitors. What I would like is a combo to minimize only the windows from monitor 1 or monitor 2.
Well, let me know if it sounds interesting to you.
Thank you

[Lexikos]

Andreone, sounds interesting.
lundstrj, you're welcome.

[agar]

I use this constantly at work. Like lundstrj, I used SplitView...had a few problems with it, so I wouldn't have registered it anyway, but your script is more full featured and works the way I want.

Your responsiveness is great too, and I really appreciate the frequent updates. I had the problem with the numpad being unavailable when I'm undocked, looked at the forum, and saw you had a beta that added use of CapsLock just for that purpose. Wow!

OK, now that I've sucked up , I wonder if I could ask about one tiny thing...

When I leave work I take my laptop with me. Typically I'll first suspend, then undock, then go home and open up my laptop and work with no external monitor. Unfortunately, windows that were open on the external screen are now invisible as they're still placed on the external screen that no longer exists.

I was hoping I could use the "gather windows" function (CapsLock-1) to move all the windows to screen 1, but it doesn't work. I'm not sure if it's a WindowPad issue or an AHK problem, but gather windows only seems to be enabled if Windows actually sees two screens. In this case, the reason I want to gather the windows is because screen 2 no longer exists.

Note that I can move each window by hand with CapsLock-D to move them to the right a few times, but is there a way to enable gather windows even if Windows only "sees" a single screen?

Thanks!

[Lexikos]

WindowPad uses the center of a window to determine which monitor it is on. If the center of the window is off-screen, GatherWindows would erroneously assume that the window is on monitor 1.

Since windows are moved between monitors based on their position relative to the top-left of the source and destination monitors, any window considered to be on the destination monitor will not be moved.

I've updated the beta with two changes:

• If the center of a window is not visible, GatherWindows will move the window to the center of the screen.
  
• GatherWindows no longer restores maximized windows that are already where they need to be.

[agar]

You are THE MAN! (or the WOMAN, since "lexikos" is a bit ambiguous...hmm, you know what I mean I hope! You rock! )

This works great. I do notice that the windows don't auto-resize in this case, though they do when gathering between two actual screens. Very minor, given the annoyance this already spares me, but I thought I'd mention it.

From other messages, it looks like you're open to ideas for future versions. I'm not even sure this is possible with AHK, but here's my one remaining peeve with Windows' handling of multi-monitors: the PnP auto-detection is very sketchy, and I'm constantly going into Display Properties to re-enable my external monitor and position it properly after I undock and re-dock (or connect to a completely different config, like a projector).

A great feature would be "named configurations" where I could specify that this is my "docked" setup. If I select that later, my config would revert to those saved settings: external monitor would be enabled, resolution set, desktop screen extended, and monitor position moved back to my preferred spot. A "home" setup might position a monitor differently with a different resolution, and so forth.

This may be beyond the scope of WindowPad, but I thought I'd throw it out there. Am I the only one to suffer from this problem?

Anyway, regardless, thanks again for your work on WindowPad.

[Lexikos]

[agar]

[Guest]

@lexikos this is awesome. The 'move to next' was exactly what i was looking for. thanks for sharing!

this would probably be a hole other script but is it possible to send maximize from youtube videos to Next display? The button is integrated in flash so i gueess its not that easy?