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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Reply #26 Thursday, February 26, 2004 9:55 AM
Also it seems Explorer windows don't tile. Otherwise it is a very functional program.
Reply #27 Thursday, February 26, 2004 11:03 AM
I think its incredible. Much better than ObjectDock's thumbnail (obviously a free product can't be too advanced).
I do wish, however, that it could combine aligning with a side and remembering its position. Then not only can I get them to go where I want and remember it, but I don't have to reposition new windows that hadn't been created before.
This is definitely the most useful feature ever in WindowsFX. Everything else was just plain eye candy.
Also don't notice a performance decline which is a big plus.
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Result: Failed (incorrect file size)
Installation aborted (failed)
Any help will be appreciated.
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Error: Invalid chunk data (504 : 172). Redownloading chunk 0 (attempt 1). Request header: Range: bytes=0-
Error: Invalid chunk data (504 : 172). Redownloading chunk 0 (attempt 2). Request header: Range: bytes=0-
Error: Invalid chunk data (504 : 172). Redownloading chunk 0 (attempt 3). Request header: Range: bytes=0-
Result: Failed (incorrect file size)
Installation aborted (failed).
Any input will be appreciated.
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