Re: How to maximize Safari windows?

On May 7, 2008, at 11:01 AM, Jim Krenz wrote:

Is there a way to make Safari expand its window to fill the screen (but respect the dock's location) on the monitor it is presently on?

I've found this script that uses the zoom feature, but I want to maximize the Safari window, not just zoom it.

tell application "System Events" to click (first button whose subrole is "AXZoomButton") of (first window whose subrole is "AXStandardWindow") of (first process whose frontmost is true)

I once had that problem with lots of applications. Scroll bar hidden behind DragThing at the bottom of the screen, &c. So I wrote a script to resize any application's front window to the bounds I wanted. I've been using it for years. Your question prompted me to look at it again and I just revised the code. Save this as an application ...

try

tell application "System Events" to set applname to (name of (some process whose frontmost is true)) as text

-- display dialog applname -- diagnostic only

if applname = "Finder" then return

tell application applname to set bounds of window 1 to {0, 22, 1200, 1000} -- for 1680 x 1050 monitor

on error

tell application "Finder" to beep

end try

It works with: Mail; Safari; NetNewsWire; TextEdit; Address Book; iCab; ...

But not Firefox; Activity Monitor; ...

The name of Firefox = "firefox-bin". (???) Some applications use 'document' instead of 'window'. You might want to put some more options in the try block to improve performance.

References:
	>How to maximize Safari windows? (From: Jim Krenz <email@hidden>)