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Old 12-10-2006, 06:19 PM
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I find myself often wanting to 'zoom' windows - that is, press the little green button top left of windows to auto-resize them. It's fiddly though, and I want a keyboard shortcut to do it.

Problem is, it doesn't seem to exist.

The only keyboard shortcut references I can find for 'zoom' are for magnifying the screen as a whole, as part of the Accessibility options.
What can I do? Is there a shortcut I've missed?
Ta in advance,
Paul G,
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Old 12-10-2006, 06:36 PM
NSLog(@"%@", [self customTitle]);

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Go into the Keyboard and Mouse System Preference, go to Keyboard Shortcuts, go down and select Application Keyboard Shortcuts -> All Applications, press the + button, then put "Zoom" in the Menu Title field, and choose a shortcut. I use Ctrl+Command+Z.

Actually I use Keyboard Maestro to do my shortcut, but I'm fairly sure it works either way.
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Old 13-10-2006, 01:35 PM
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Hey, thanks! It's easy when you know how!

I'm really surprised that this isn't included by default - Apple sees the action as being important enough to get a little green window button, but not enough to get a keyboard shortcut. Weird.

Thanks again,
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Old 13-10-2006, 01:40 PM
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I too found that to be wierd when I moved from windows - not that windows makes it obvious, but I was very used to pressing Alt+Space, X for maximise and Alt+Space, N for minimise.
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