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[Lexikos]

WindowPad

Use a pad concept to arrange windows. Use the Numpad or your own custom layout to move and resize a window to fill the appropriate section of the screen.

Though the concept is based on HiRes Screen Splitter by JOnGliko, I wrote WindowPad from scratch to add some features. Those features are:

• Multiple-monitor support. It should work with any number of monitors in any setup.
  
• Unresizable windows are positioned correctly.
  
• Windows that aren't supposed to be resizable (i.e. calc) are not resized.

As of version 1.5, hotkeys can be fully customized via WindowPad.ini. All commands which are assignable in the ini are defined as labels in the script.

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Ye Olde Version 1.14

[bobbo]

Absolutely love this tool, it is fast and effective at what it does. Instantly earned a place in my startup script.

One suggestion: please add using the NumpadDot key to move the window to the next monitor without resizing the window. It's often nice to just throw a window to another screen without resizing first. Otherwise, great job!

[Lexikos]

Updated to v1.1:

• Added "Gather windows" hotkeys (NumpadDiv and NumpadMult)
  
• Added Win+NumpadDot to move window to next monitor
  
• Added more EasyKey combos (for symmetry)
  
• Original functionality of EasyKey is now retained (on key-release)
  
• Added SetWinDelay, -1 to reduce lag when making multiple moves (quickly)

[Charon the Hand]

This is a splendid tool, thank you very much.

[lukemh]

This is AWESOME! Keep up the great work.

[bobbo]

Again, great work, and thanks for the quick inclusion of my suggestion! I made a couple of minor edits for myself:

This allows the NumpadDot to work for maximized windows:

[Lexikos]

[silkcom]

First, let me tell you, awesome script. This is exactly what I've been looking for.

I found a small problem though:

When I use the 6 to move to the right side, then to the next monitors left side, etc, it works, but when I use the 4 to try and do the same thing the opposite way it doesn't work.

My setup: I have my secondary monitor on the right side of my main monitor. I did switch the variables in the GatherWindowsLeft and RIght, but I'm not sure if there is another place that I'm suppose to change it?

[Lexikos]

GatherWindows uses absolute monitor index, so it should be the only part you'd need to change.

So you can move to the secondary, which is on the right, but not back to the primary? It seems to work fine for me (after moving my secondary to the right of my primary.) What's the exact setup of your monitors? (Easiest answer is to run this script and copy-paste the mon* variables.)

[silkcom]

Global Variables (alphabetical)
--------------------------------------------------
0[1 of 3]: 0
dir[0 of 0]:
dir0[0 of 0]:
dir1[0 of 0]:
dir2[0 of 0]:
Directions0[0 of 0]:
Directions1[0 of 0]:
EasyKey[0 of 0]:
ErrorLevel[1 of 3]: 0
heightFactor[0 of 0]:
m[1 of 3]: 2
mon1[0 of 0]:
mon1Bottom[3 of 3]: 800
mon1Left[1 of 3]: 0
mon1Right[4 of 7]: 1280
mon1Top[1 of 3]: 0
mon2[0 of 0]:
mon2Bottom[3 of 3]: 658
mon2Left[4 of 7]: 1280
mon2Right[4 of 7]: 2960
mon2Top[4 of 7]: -392
Prefix_Active[0 of 0]:
Prefix_Other[0 of 0]:
state[0 of 0]:
widthFactor[0 of 0]:


2nd question:
I'm interested in changing the hotkeys. I know that I would have to change them in the Loop at the beginning but I'm not exactly sure how DoMoveWindowInDirection works, so I'm not sure if that would need to be changed too. The problem is that I'm on a laptop, so the numpad is a bit annoying to work with . I'd prefer to be able to do the move with one hand (I want to do Alt+Win+a to move left, and Alt+Win+d to move right, etc).

Thanks again.

[silkcom]

Ok, so I'm pretty sure that the problem is that my monitors are setup such that the tops don't line up (when I lined them up, in display properties, so that the tops were at the same level the script moved back and forth perfectly).

Not sure how to fix it, but it's definately trying to get a monitor possition where the top is negative (which it is on my big monitor, but would return a bad number otherwise I would think).

[silkcom]

A quick fix that I put in is:

In GetMonitorAt() as the first line I put:
y := 100

Not a bad answer, but if u positioned ur monitors such that 100 is below or above one of the monitors, then it would break again.

[Lexikos]

I see the problem. It works by getting some point that is probably in the right monitor:

[kmccoy]

This is really great. One thing I noticed is that when I gather windows, it gathers things that really shouldn't move, like the Vista Sidebar and desktop. It'd be great to be able to rule those things out, but I can't find anything in common to these items so that I can conveniently make it ignore them...

[Lexikos]

My original need for gather windows was to move all windows to my secondary monitor when my primary isn't "hooked up"* to my PC - so I didn't have much need for an exclusion list. (Also, I find the Vista sidebar next to useless. )

* for lack of a better term; it has dual inputs, so I use it with my Xbox360 occasionally.

I can see how it might be useful to exclude some windows, so I've added two methods of exclusion:

• Exclude by title, class, etc. (GroupAdd, GatherExclude, ...)
  
• Exclude by process name (ProcessGatherExcludeList; comma-delimited.)

By default it excludes the sidebar and its gadgets. Simply uncomment ProcessGatherExcludeList and add process.exe to the list to exclude entire applications. (e.g. ...List = sidebar.exe,firefox.exe)