Studio 6.1.1 & OS X UI guidelines regarding window 'zooming'

Michael Monschau michael at brainydata.co.uk
Wed Mar 4 11:30:04 EST 2015


BTW, I discovered who told me (typical), it was Perry. Because I was annoyed and moaning about the new zoom button behaviour, he googled it and found out about the alt-key trick. Perhaps it is time to move aside to the young ones.

Michael


> On 4 Mar 2015, at 10:50, Mike Matthews <omnis at lineal.co.uk> wrote:
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> And my Old Age wisdom keeps me on 10.8 so I keep those odd artefacts from appearing. :)
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> I'll ask Will though, as he suffers these odd rectangles on his O$5.2 with OSX10.10
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> Mike
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> On 4 Mar 2015, at 10:34, Michael Monschau <michael at brainydata.co.uk> wrote:
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>> Hi Mike,
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>> As far as I am aware no. I cannot see anything in the Accessibility settings or other system settings that would effect the behaviour of the window’s zoom button (which in 10.10. has become the windows full-screen mode button).
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>> I think someone told me about holding down the alt-key fairly recently, but I do not remember who, so I cannot give credit where credit is due.
>> Although I could be constructing this memory as my self-doubt may be telling me that I could not have figured it out by my self. 
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>> Ahhhhh, old age.
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>> Regards,
>> Michael
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>> Brainy Data Limited
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>>> On 2 Mar 2015, at 16:53, Mike Matthews <omnis at lineal.co.uk> wrote:
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>>> Is that part of the Accesibility settings for the zoom feature?  I set the F12 key  to this, but it only digitally zooms, not proper scaled, so you see the FatBits.
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>>> Mike
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>>> Mike Matthews,
>>> Managing Director, SQLWorks Software Ltd
>>> 
>>> Tel: +44 (0)1271 375999
>>> 
>>> Email: mike.matthews at sqlworks.co.uk
>>> 
>>> Web: www.sqlworks.co.uk
>>> 
>>> SQLWorks replaces Sage, ACT!, Opera, Access, SAP
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>>> On 2 Mar 2015, at 15:47, Andy Hilton <andyh at totallybrilliant.com> wrote:
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>>>> No I did not know that little publicised fact :)
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>>>> Thanks for the ip !
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>>>> Andy
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>>>>> On Mar 2, 2015, at 10:03 AM, Michael Monschau <michael at brainydata.co.uk> wrote:
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>>>>> Hi Guys,
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>>>>> Just in case you did not know. If you hold down the alt key while clicking the zoom button, it zooms as before.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> Michael
>>>>> 
>>>>> Michael Monschau (Director)
>>>>> Brainy Data Limited
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>>>>>> On 27 Feb 2015, at 03:13, Andy Hilton <andyh at totallybrilliant.com> wrote:
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>>>>>> Couldn’t agree more - I hate that full screen stuff, it just gets in the way
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>>>>>>> On Feb 26, 2015, at 10:05 PM, Bryan Brodie <brb at appimatic.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Thank you Mitford House for NOT following Apple's useless interface
>>>>>>> guidelines in your latest Studio update.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Specifically, I'm pleased that clicking the green 'dot' in an open window
>>>>>>> does NOT zoom the entire desktop (three desktops in my specific case) into
>>>>>>> single application view mode.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I'm hoping this continues to be the case for future updates.
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