[PD] patch size

[Chuckk Hubbard]

On 7/25/06, Mathieu Bouchard <matju at artengine.ca> wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Jul 2006, Kyle Klipowicz wrote:
>
> > Yes, this is one of the biggest annoying things about OS X.  The
> > window resizing is limited to the bottom right corner of the window,
> > so if the patch is tall enough to have the bottom off screen, you're
> > screwed without editing the file in a text editor.
> > AAAAARRRRRRGGGGG!!!!
>
> No. Maximize the patch using the green button. This normally brings the
> bottom-right corner into the screen.
>
> You're screwed if the window position makes the title bar offscreen, and
> then you have to edit the .pd file, or edit pd.tk so that it never sets
> window positions (just delete the line that says "wm geometry").

On both WIndows and Debian Linux you can hit Alt-Space to bring up the
size-place-etc. menu, and hit M to move with the arrow keys.  Well I'm
using Gnome, I guess it might depend on that?  I also see that Alt-F7
is a shortcut to move a window.  I know in Windows these things work
even if the window is completely off-screen.  OSX has nothing like
this; it seems to have very very few hotkeys for most things, and
never for drop-down menus.  Mac users I know (most everyone at my
school) are pretty single-button-mouse-dependent.

Wow, I just thought of something- shouldn't all PD patchers have one of these?
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=290011790850

-Chuckk

>
> On Linux you normally have some better shortcuts, but this only works if
> *some* part of the window is on-screen. Else you may be able to
> right-click on the dock entry (at least KDE does it; I don't have GNOME at
> hand so I can't try)
>
> Pd could be fixed in order to prevent offscreen windows. This can be done
> by replacing the aforementioned "wm geometry" line by something else which
> I'll leave as an exercise to the reader...:)
>
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