• fullcreen app always goes to screen 1: feature or bug? you decide
• I see a pixel or two on screen 2 (right border) edit: ahh one of the two variables (padding to 0 solves it  :Thmbsup:
• add WinSet, Redraw,,%ID% before end of subroutine to prevent screen redrawing options on vista!

-justice (May 16, 2007, 03:22 AM)

Yes, I totally ignored multi-monitor setup in that script, mostly because I don't use one most of the time.  It also made the script simple; with a multi-monitor setup where you potentially can have a fullscreened app on each monitor, you're going to have to get more fancy: not only do you have to memorize which app is fullscreened on which screen, but you also have to work out what an un-fullscreen keystroke is to do (i.e., there are a number of "logical" ways to interpret such a keystroke then).

Interesting about "padding".  I used it to eliminate some extra "glare" around the screen border... if I set padding=0 and fullscreen a dark background window, then the around the edge of the screen I'll get a bright outline 1- or 2-pixels wide.  Hence "padding=2", which actually I meant to call "anti-padding".  But if you say that this causes the window to stick out onto the next screen, then... I see, I guess just stripping the window border and titlebar leaves the window's client area still in some sort of container window which shows through by 1- or 2-pixels around the client area.  I wonder what a clean way of getting rid of that would be.  That extra border is annoying, especially considering that the whole point of fullscreening the app, at least for me, is to eliminate any visually distracting elements...

I'll have to look up that Redraw bit you mentioned.  I'm running on WinXP SP2, hence haven't run into the issue.  Actually, speaking of redraws, I wish there was a way to tell AHK/Windows to "freeze" the window display untill all the operations (stripping of window parts, moving, resizing) are done, to avoid the "repainting"/flashing effect that such a quick succession of operations produces...

Neat, AHK rules!  :Thmbsup:  Tossed this little thing up, based on input from AHK forum:


This works perfectly for my purposes.  Fullscreens currently active app on Win-F keypress, unless one has already been fullscreened earlier, in which case it restores the old window dimensions.  Any AHK stylistic/efficiency remarks quite welcome though... it's my first nontrivial script...

Hello,

I would love to find out if any of you readers knows of a tool which can fullscreen any arbitrary application.  By that I mean that it maximizes an app to the point where only the window's client area is visible, with the window's caption/title/border and the Windows taskbar being hidden or off-screen.  My main desire for this is to turn a number of my favourite apps into distraction free tools, especially my favourite editor (Vim), much like the recently reviewed Dark Room and Writer tools.  BTW, I'm running on WindowsXP.  I know there are some nice solutions under Linux (a number of window managers support this directly) and probably Mac too...