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[jack]

these key definitions enable you to move the active window around the screen using Windows+Up, Windows+Down, Windows+Left, Windows+Right.

not exactly fancy but, as a keyboard sort of person, i find them very handy.

jack
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[BoBo]

Cool, thx jack.

[Guest]

Wtf happened to alt+space ~ m? Or do you feel that those extra 300 milliseconds of your life could be spent doing better things? I can see hotkeys for batches or running programs, but extremely basic things like closing a window, switching tasks, or moving windows around using the keyboard have already been made simple enough. Windows already takes up enough resources with it's own shit that we don't need to be filling in the cracks with multiples ways to such trivial things.

[twwilliams]

Guest:

Maybe the script doesn't make sense to you. But the essence of tools like AutoHotkey is to personalize the user experience. Alt-Space-M may be something you know and that works well for you.

But maybe Jack prefers to use the Windows key and the cursors.

Maybe he has a programmable keypad that lets him assign single chords like Win-Up to a directional pad, in which case this solution in AutoHotkey would make perfect sense for him.

Regardless of any of these things, I appreciate seeing scripts that do interesting things even if I don't think I'll take advantage of their specific capabilities. I do learn from them, though.
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[exhueydriver]

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[jack]

[jonny]

For me, alt+space never made sense. For moving and resizing the window you shouldn't be pressing four different keys, the mouse will always be faster and more natural. The minimize and maximize keys should have straight hotkeys already, (think alt+f4) and alt+space is a stupid hotkey anyway. Anyway, great script, I'll see if I can work something like it into my alt+f4 complements script.

P.S. I refuse to dignify the guest's post with a direct response. Huey and Williams have got that covered pretty well.

[jtran21]

Liked the code, here are made some slight modifications so that the window won't run outside of the screen area.

[ezuk]

This is a _very_ useful script. I use it to move windows around my multi-monitor system.

I'm actually using the origianl version, which is better suited for this. I might add some code for easily maximizing/restoring the windows using a combo of Winkey + arrows (so you don't have to move your hand too much).

If anyone wants this, drop me a note and I'll put it here when I'm done.

[brotherS]

Hi, I tested jack's and jtran21's scripts. jtran21's isn't working at all, but jack's is.

I like it, just have a problem: I use the setting in Windows 2000 that activates windows by just moving the mouse cursor over them - no need for clicking. When I now move a window and the mouse cursor stays at its place it will focus the next window, which will then be moved

Any fix for that?

[brotherS]

Could someone/Jack perhaps add some code to it, so that the mouse cursor just would move the same distance and direction the window itself does? That should fix it!

[Hotfoot]

Just add the MouseMove command to each hotkey -- after the WinMove command:

[brotherS]

Thanks for your ideas and comments, the script is working perfectly now, looking like this:

[Guest]

I need to compare design time verses run time of an application, alt+space+m+enter does not cut it. This macro, changed very easily to do +1 instead of +100, easily gets my transparent design over the run time and wouldn't you know it Oracle messed with the fonts! And not consistently either.