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Tiger sometimes fully expand a window: how do I resize it to be smaller ?
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Tiger sometimes fully expand a window: how do I resize it to be smaller ?


  • Subject: Tiger sometimes fully expand a window: how do I resize it to be smaller ?
  • From: Emile Schwarz <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2006 08:47:05 +0200

Hi all,

sometimes since I installed Tiger (10.4, on April 30th, 2005; PowerBook 15", 1.5GHz, August 2004), I get a oversized window - and this is clearly a bug; one of the many I found - and I do not know why nor how to resize that window.

To be able to show you what happens, I wrote:

tell application "Finder"
   return properties of front window
end tell

That window shows some icons and the rest of the window is nor accessible because it is far below the monitor screen. And because no scroll bar is available (the window is zoomed at its max), I do not know how to access the icons that are out of the monitor boundaries.

Here's the result of the script:

{class:Finder window, id:31, name:"imgs", position:{0, 44}, bounds:{0, 44, 1088, 2053}, index:1, zoomed:false, closeable:true, titled:true, floating:false, modal:false, resizable:true, zoomable:true, visible:true, collapsed:false, target:folder "imgs" of folder "Peanuts 1962" of folder "The Sunday Peanuts" of folder "Vendredi 7-15 avril 2006" of startup disk of application "Finder", current view:icon view, icon view options:icon view options of Finder window id 31 of application "Finder", list view options:list view options of Finder window id 31 of application "Finder", column view options:column view options of Finder window id 31 of application "Finder", toolbar visible:false, statusbar visible:true, sidebar width:0}

The view is by Icons, 128 pixels, snap to grid, display infos and preview file (instead of default application icon)...

Yes, you read correctly: "bounds:{0, 44, 1088, 2053}"; 1088 is OK for a 1280 x 854 PowerBook 15" screen, but 2053 pixels tall is a bit too much: nearly three times the available monitor height.

Since the 10.4 original bug on position and bounds have not been corrected (even on Tiger 10.4.7!) more than 14 month after the original release (original bug...), I have to ask here:

did you know how I can resize "to the original hardware screen" ?

TIA,


Emile


PS: I use DVD-RW to store file until I can use the Finder to place (position + width + height / bounds) the icons in the windows correctly and then burn a lot of archives DVD-R.
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