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Developer's Corner / Re: Dumdum - Aero Shake clone project in AHK (was : Minimizing all windows[...])

« on: November 22, 2008, 09:49 AM »

I can imagine which windows you mean.

I often have trouble with WinSCP. Something they do is obviously a bit strange, because the minimise animation of WinSCP is that of a window being closed, rather than minimised, but it's still on the taskbar!

It seems that they use Form.hide rather than a proper minimise.
Perhaps you describe something entirely different.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Dumdum - Aero Shake clone project in AHK (was : Minimizing all windows[...])

« on: November 21, 2008, 07:56 AM »

How you doing?

Have you given up? Looks like a harder task that it appears?

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Developer's Corner / Re: Dumdum - Aero Shake clone project in AHK (was : Minimizing all windows[...])

« on: November 16, 2008, 08:28 AM »

Yes, i agree with you.

-ak_ (November 14, 2008, 04:35 PM)

Well, good luck with your endeavour.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Dumdum - Aero Shake clone project in AHK (was : Minimizing all windows[...])

« on: November 14, 2008, 04:21 PM »

Videoinpicture> thanks a lot for trying it

cyberkilla> i'm glad you posted this message, it motivates me to finish this thing

Since you're here, let me ask you a question : when the windows have been minimized, when should Dumdum "forget" about those windows ? I mean, if i shake a window, then restore a few by hand, close some others, work for 3 hours and then shake the same window again, i suppose it should minimize every other windows (instead of restoring the ones that have been minimized earlier). I hope i'm clear

-ak_ (November 14, 2008, 11:50 AM)

I don't have a certain answer for that, but this is my understanding...

When you use the windows taskbar's Stack, Cascade or Side by Side feature, it will provide an Undo button until you change something.

So, in my opinion, your best plan is to remember *what* you minimized the last time, restoring it on the next shake if everything is in the same state as before.

To explain that a little better, I'll put it this way: If the same window is open, and all of the others are minimised and not closed, restore the windows.

This allows you to, for example, open your mail inbox, shake other windows away, open a composer window, send the message and return to your inbox.
Then, you can shake the window again to restore the old windows.
I'd even go as far to say that you can restore some of the other windows, use them and minimise them again.

As long as you shake the original window, with all of the originally minimised windows in the same state, restore them.

What do you think? If somebody opens extra windows and shakes one of them, he is more likely to be wanting THEM to be minimized, rather than restore the old ones to add to the mess.

That's my logic, and it is, as far as I know, the same behaviour of the other taskbar functions.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Dumdum - Aero Shake clone project in AHK (was : Minimizing all windows[...])

« on: November 14, 2008, 11:24 AM »

Hey, you've started now! Please finish!;)

You are the only person with a decent clone so far. If you could get the windows to come back, and only the ones minimised in the first place, it would be brilliant.

Still, I've used it. I'm still using it. I find it *highly* useful and intuitive. Whoever thought of this at Microsoft should be given given a raise.

Thanks for making it. I'm happy with it as it is, but if you did manage to get the windows to come back again, it would be the icing on the cake.

Note: Just make sure that you disregard any extra shakes until the window has been let go of.
What I mean is, before you check for a shake to 'reverse' the effects of the minimising shake, ensure that the window has stopped moving first.

The consequences of not doing this is simple - over-shaking will make windows come and go every now and then, which is what bothered me in another clone I found.

The argument I've heard is that it's just as easy to do WIN + M then reopen the window you closed.
My counter argument is simple: I've just pulled the window I want to the front of the visible stack. I'm already holding the damned thing's titlebar on most occasions. Why not shake it to clean up the mess?