WindowFX on Object Desktop

Wednesday, February 25, 2004 by Frogboy | Discussion: WinCustomize News

If you have Object Desktop, WindowFX 2.2 is in beta and boy does it have some cool stuff.

The main new feature is window scaling. See the main screenshot along with this one here:
https://www.stardock.com/products/windowfx/wfx-feb04a.jpg

Window scaling is where you take a regular window and have it be any size you want on the screen. If you hold down the shift key when you minimize a window, WindowFX will turn it into a tile. You can then use the Ctrl key to resize the tiled window to any size you want and optionally interact with it.

The tiled window isn't just some snapshot or some other hack its live. With real-time window updating. This can be quite useful for those of you have multiple chat windows open at once and want to keep track of them at once. You can also optionally set the tiled windows to stay on top so that it's easy to go back and forth to a group of windows you're working on.

If you don't have Object Desktop, you can get it at www.objectdesktop.com. It's a suite of desktop enhancements that includes WindowBlinds, DesktopX, IconPackager, Theme Manager, ObjectBar, Keyboard LaunchPad, and more.

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Essencay
Reply #1 Wednesday, February 25, 2004 4:32 PM
That is the best
AlexUnderCover
Reply #2 Wednesday, February 25, 2004 4:42 PM
That is an absolute trip! I'm going to have to start playing with that a little bit.
PhrozenMenace
Reply #3 Wednesday, February 25, 2004 5:14 PM
gotta love windowfx, esp the OD version
grayhaze
Reply #4 Wednesday, February 25, 2004 5:26 PM
Is there any way you could tie this effect into ObjectDock to get the result we all really want? )
Stephen Kilmer
Reply #5 Wednesday, February 25, 2004 5:41 PM
When I tile a window it turns black.
bipp5
Reply #6 Wednesday, February 25, 2004 5:50 PM
whoa, this is kinda cool!
Frogboy
Reply #7 Wednesday, February 25, 2004 6:22 PM
Grayhaze: Not for free. )
nocool
Reply #8 Wednesday, February 25, 2004 6:39 PM
If you could make middle click work instead of right click, or shift-clicking, that would be fantastic....

mormegil
Reply #9 Wednesday, February 25, 2004 7:27 PM
Very cool, one of those things you would never think of but Turns out to be A must have.
Nutshell69
Reply #10 Wednesday, February 25, 2004 7:34 PM
this caught my attention. Might have to check it out (since I am already subscribed )
voo
Reply #11 Wednesday, February 25, 2004 8:58 PM
Tile mode is fantastic, it sure is a great space saver this feature. Plus i've always been fond of WinFX shadows.
paxx
Reply #12 Wednesday, February 25, 2004 10:44 PM
Neat! Sounds cool. Gotta try it out. Opening SC right now.
paxx
Reply #13 Wednesday, February 25, 2004 11:05 PM
OK, it's cool. Confirmed.
ptrcstn
Reply #14 Wednesday, February 25, 2004 11:14 PM
This is awesome, hopefully we will use some of the transitions fx applied to this tiled screens in the near future... )
antispin
Reply #15 Wednesday, February 25, 2004 11:21 PM
Component Manager only lists the 2.09b version of WindowFX, am I missing something?
EDIT: OH, old version
Sugaree
Reply #16 Thursday, February 26, 2004 12:00 AM
Sweet
Gregory Scott
Reply #17 Thursday, February 26, 2004 12:53 AM
Anyone know what skin and wallpaper they're using in the snapshot?
Sloegin
Reply #18 Thursday, February 26, 2004 2:17 AM
My StarDock Central only reports haveing 2.19[b].002 for WindowFX [beta] as being available. How can I get the 2.2 ???
Xave
Reply #19 Thursday, February 26, 2004 3:28 AM
According to Stardock usual versionning scheme, 2.19 should be 2.2 beta (vX.X -0.01. Plus the about box reads v2.2) but Shift+minimize does absolutely nothing for me with this version either... Do I miss something ?
nocool
Reply #20 Thursday, February 26, 2004 3:29 AM
2.19 has it. I can only see that too.

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