Author Topic: IDEA: move small dialog windows to cursor position (Read 224,289 times)

AndyM · « **Reply #125 on:** August 30, 2006, 03:33 PM »

Quote from: jgpaiva on August 30, 2006, 10:32 AM

As for your other request, i'm right now working on it!

That's great news.

btw, I've been periodically getting the "window shrinks to very short Titlebar" syndrome. It seems to happen sometimes when I close a dialog box which was moved properly, and then the focus goes to the next open window. That window shrinks, and because it is small, it then jumps to the cursor. Once in a while, an unshrunk window that gains focus will jump to the cursor. None of it happens often enough to make me even think about not using DialogMove. I'm 95% positive in all cases it only happens when I close a moved Dialog box.

nudone · « **Reply #126 on:** August 30, 2006, 08:27 PM »

i've not encountered anything like that for a long long time. strange.

AndyM · « **Reply #127 on:** September 01, 2006, 02:32 AM »

I'm running more AHK scripts than I used to, 8 including DialogMove. I wonder if that has anything to do with it.

nudone · « **Reply #128 on:** September 09, 2006, 10:05 AM »

cody has a lot of credits waiting for you, jgpaiva - if you can implement the 'intelligent' position dialog to place highlighted button under mouse cursor.

i love dialogmove more and more each day - especially when i have to use someone else's retarded machine that doesn't have dialogmove on it.

jgpaiva · « **Reply #129 on:** September 09, 2006, 12:22 PM »

Quote from: nudone on September 09, 2006, 10:05 AM

cody has a lot of credits waiting for you, jgpaiva - if you can implement the 'intelligent' position dialog to place highlighted button under mouse cursor.

Oh... Sorry, actually, it's already done and working, but no config yet. I'll try to upload it still today.

Quote from: nudone on September 09, 2006, 10:05 AM

i love dialogmove more and more each day - especially when i have to use someone else's retarded machine that doesn't have dialogmove on it.

nudone · « **Reply #130 on:** September 09, 2006, 12:29 PM »

great, looking forward to downloading it.

jgpaiva · « **Reply #131 on:** September 10, 2006, 01:03 PM »

Ok... Sorry for the delay.
It's here, dialogmove 1.8.9.
Added the "move to active button" option. (if there isn't an active control, it acts as it did before).

DialogMove v1.8.9 updated 09-10-06:

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moves windows smaler than a given size to a place closer to the mouse position.

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nudone · « **Reply #132 on:** September 10, 2006, 01:14 PM »

heh, heh, heh, brilliant.

i think it's the ultimate improvement.

great work, jgpaiva.

jgpaiva · « **Reply #133 on:** September 10, 2006, 01:21 PM »

Quote from: nudone on September 10, 2006, 01:14 PM

heh, heh, heh, brilliant.

i think it's the ultimate improvement.

great work, jgpaiva.

It sure is!
Even i like it, and i don't use dialogmove (things moving by themselves on my screen without me telling them to confuses me :S)
It was definitelly a good idea!

Glad you like it

AndyM · « **Reply #134 on:** September 10, 2006, 03:26 PM »

Very nice, thanks!

nudone · « **Reply #135 on:** September 16, 2006, 09:35 AM »

here's just a suggestion for when you have nothing better to do one day, jgpaiva.

i really like the new move dialog so that highlighted button move to cursor type thing, but there are times when it would be nice for a different button to act as the target.

i use flashget and the 'save' dialog that opens has the save location highlighted rather than just the 'okay' or 'save' button.

my suggestion is that it would be nice/useful if the user could make 'dialogmove' learn how you want it to behave with certain windows. just like it works at the moment how you can specify whether a window should be ignored or always moved by pressing one of the hotkeys - it would be handy so that you could press a hotkey so that dialogmove knew which button it should use as the target to move the mouse cursor with specific dialog windows.

i hope that makes sense, and i hope it sounds like a worthwhile feature to add.

jgpaiva · « **Reply #136 on:** December 10, 2006, 01:17 PM »

I know... It seems unbelievable, but.. There's a new version of DialogMove!! Run to get it

I've updated it to give it some more speed when moving the windows, and to remove the screen configuration options, the script gets those by itself, no need for configuration.

DialogMove v1.8.93 updated 10-12-06:

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moves windows smaler than a given size to a place closer to the mouse position.

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[edit] Thanks nudone... LoL, i'm so messed up that i even mix my own stuff

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nudone · « **Reply #137 on:** December 10, 2006, 02:28 PM »

fantastic - but don't you mean you've updated DIALOG MOVE not gridmove.

will now download.

AndyM · « **Reply #138 on:** December 12, 2006, 02:53 AM »

Quote from: jgpaiva on December 10, 2006, 01:17 PM

DialogMove v1.8.93 updated 10-12-06:

The occasional problem that I was having where a window jumped that wasn't supposed to, either shrinking or not, seems to have gone away.

Do you thing the revised code (which I didn't really look over) is responsible?

jgpaiva · « **Reply #139 on:** December 12, 2006, 09:58 AM »

Quote from: AndyM on December 12, 2006, 02:53 AM

The occasional problem that I was having where a window jumped that wasn't supposed to, either shrinking or not, seems to have gone away.

Do you thing the revised code (which I didn't really look over) is responsible?

Well... That's good!

I don't think the few lines i added to the code could make any difference. On the other hand, this new version was compiled with a way newer version of AHK, which means that might have been a bug in the ahk code that has already been fixed. (i haven't noticed it in the changelogs, though..)
But anyways, it's good to know it's gone now

jgpaiva · « **Reply #140 on:** January 21, 2007, 10:25 PM »

You think DialogMove was smart? Well.. It got smarter.
Now with auto-detection of buttons' names.
The window focus will be set on buttons named "save", "ok" (and the similar ones in portuguese, so that i could test it

).
Notice that this will work regardless if there are any other focused controls. If these exist, they'll be beneath your mouse.

Other names of controls to look for are welcome.
(if these controls are not present, it'll move to the active control. if there's no active control, it'll move to the middle of the window)

DialogMove v1.8.97 updated 21-01-07:

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moves windows smaler than a given size to a place closer to the mouse position.

[Forum Topic] [.ahk Version] [.exe version] [About Box]

PS: this was a first atempt, to see how it works out. If it doesn't work out, i'll have to think of a way of configuring it per window. I've just been having some trouble figuring out how to do it.

jgpaiva · « **Reply #141 on:** January 21, 2007, 11:01 PM »

New update:
Added configuration of which controls to look for. You can find those under the "rules" tab in the settings. (notice that it is just a comma-separated list of the words that have to be in the text of the controls to look for)

DialogMove v1.8.98 updated 21-01-07:

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moves windows smaler than a given size to a place closer to the mouse position.

[Forum Topic] [.ahk Version] [.exe version] [About Box]

nudone · « **Reply #142 on:** January 21, 2007, 11:12 PM »

fantastic. christmas has come very early for me this year. very, very early it seems.

i'll have to try this tomorrow but i'm overjoyed that you've done this update.

nudone · « **Reply #143 on:** January 22, 2007, 11:28 AM »

i think the new version is working perfectly. seems to know what's going on with larger windows a bit better too.

jgpaiva · « **Reply #144 on:** January 22, 2007, 12:22 PM »

Quote from: nudone on January 22, 2007, 11:28 AM

i think the new version is working perfectly. seems to know what's going on with larger windows a bit better too.

I'm very happy to hear that!!

If you find anything you'd like to add, don't existate to post

AndyM · « **Reply #145 on:** January 22, 2007, 01:30 PM »

So far so good.

Thanks jgpaiva!

nudone · « **Reply #146 on:** January 23, 2007, 08:03 PM »

i haven't thought for too long about this so i may be talking complete rubbish:

i'm wondering if the rules for matching smaller window sizes before moving the dialog is actually superfluous to making dialogmove work.

now that the rules are there to move windows depending on their 'in focus' button (okay, save, cancel, etc) it looks to me that is all that is required, i.e. no need to look for size.

as the windows that are moved by dialogmove tend to have the types of buttons mentioned above then perhaps we could try a version that abandoned the size method.

i mention this as there are still a few windows that don't behave as they should. sometimes they move, sometimes they don't. making a specific window NOT move often effects another window not moving also. these are slight issues but i'm wondering if the size function is the one that is getting in the way.

i need to experiment for a bit and then i'll report back.

jgpaiva · « **Reply #147 on:** January 23, 2007, 08:10 PM »

Sorry nudone, but i didn't exactly understand what you meant.
Please give me some examples, so that i can better understand the problem

nudone · « **Reply #148 on:** January 23, 2007, 08:17 PM »

well, the main problem seems to be with the 'save as' dialog. that's the one that troubles me.

i've specified for it to be moved by dialogname 'Save As', sometimes it moves, sometimes it doesn't i can't see any pattern to the problem. i admit it's larger than the rules i've set for size which are 1920 x 200 but as it moves sometimes i just wonder why it doesn't move all the time.

i shall try to follow exactly what is happening when i use the machine tomorrow and then i'll try and give a detailed report.

jgpaiva · « **Reply #149 on:** January 23, 2007, 08:56 PM »

Notice that dialogmove is made so that this new addition doesn't actually tell the window to move, it only tells it where to move, if it is moved.
Also, while testing this, i found this:
Remember that dialogmove doesn't move windows if they'll appear beneath the mouse. A save box is quite big, so there's a good probability this will happen. Please confirm if that's the reason it doesn't move sometimes and others it does.