Moving Regions with Keyclone Maximizer

[Doubleo7]

I have been successfully using Maximizer with Keyclone to set up 2box and 5box regions. I am using Horizontal Span with 4 clones on one screen and my main on the other screen. The problem I am having is that no matter how I seem to manipulate the area I can only get 4 windows on the monitor on the left and 1 on the monitor on the right. I would really like to have my monitor on the left with just one and the monitor on the right split in 4 windows... Everytime I get close to it, it only lets me have 4 on the right and nothing on the left (its just a dark spot). Everything I do to add the left adds it as more than one window!

Anyone else ran into this or have a solution :)

Thanks for reading.

[kalih]

I have been successfully using Maximizer with Keyclone to set up 2box and 5box regions. I am using Horizontal Span with 4 clones on one screen and my main on the other screen. The problem I am having is that no matter how I seem to manipulate the area I can only get 4 windows on the monitor on the left and 1 on the monitor on the right. I would really like to have my monitor on the left with just one and the monitor on the right split in 4 windows... Everytime I get close to it, it only lets me have 4 on the right and nothing on the left (its just a dark spot). Everything I do to add the left adds it as more than one window!

Anyone else ran into this or have a solution :)

Thanks for reading.

I ran into this as well and mentioned it in the "big" keyclone thread. He said he was aware and it was on his list of things to fix. I haven't upgraded to the newest version yet, but I presume he hasn't gotten around to fixing it yet.

As for me, I ended up liking the setup and just left it that way, with my main on the right.

[keyclone]

yea... it's on the list. (maybe this weekend)

one item that could help speed up the work would be... how would you like to interface with the regions? its a small little box... so just dropping little rectangles wouldn't work very well.

if you have any suggestions.. please drop me a PM and i'll see what i can do.

[kalih]

I've solved a similar problem before. What I'd do is something like this:

left click on non-region: make region
left click on region: quad that region

right click on a region: remove just that region
right click on a point: remove that point and all lines, merging everyone
right click on a line: remove that line and merge the two regions

You can "make" any "standard" region setup with that type of interface.

[keyclone]

@kalih
i had thought of that doing something like that... but it wouldn't solve the 10 pixel issue (where people want to bring up the bottom 10 pixels or so)

editing a file directly doesn't seem right

[Djarid]

how about text boxes for the top left coords and width and height? Used in conjunction with the current system

this will allow more granularity over region positioning might make me switch from using standard maximiser

my regions are 0,0,1920,700 ; 0,699,960,500 ; 960,699,960,500

notice that they overlap on the interface and that I have a 1px gap at the bottom for my autohide taskbar

[Doubleo7]

Thanks for the responses! I will work around it and wait for a fix in the future.

[Ghallo]

I agree with Djarid - each region would have 4 input boxes appear upon creation of the region (top left coords, width, height).

[Skulk]

How about that:

You drop a rectangular shape onto the editing box. it will autmaticly snap to near regions (or borders) but you should be still able to fine tune it and choos NOT to snap. maybe you want to have one small window in each edge of the screen, so you can still have another program in the middle.

Maybe with left-clicking into the area and getting a textbox which shows the exact values


to make it a lot simpler, you could add some predefined-layouts, or add an mechanism to save a layout in a file (for further use - or for sharing)

(in the end, its nearly the same, which you have already implemente. but with some changes. making the vertices movable, and making the lines movable....)


So you have:
- comfortable setting the regions through simple clicks
- ability for finetuning "per pixel"
- ability to save you "hard work" (especially if you have multiple setups (dual-box & 5-box for instance)
- ability to have a "Newbie" not to mess up with the editor, beeing able to choose a predefined set, he likes to use.