How to? Multi-Display Configuration

[ce4dos]

I have a three display configuration and I use TCC 14 for a lot of skripting things on Windows 7 64-bit Ultimate.

I have not yet found a solution for that: I want to move a window (not necessarily the active one) but with a known title name from Display X to Display 2.

Is this possible?

 

[Charles Dye]

I haven't tried it, but it seems like ACTIVATE /POS should do what you want. (Usually a second monitor will have X coordinates that are either negative or very large.)

 

[vefatica]

I haven't tried it, but it seems like ACTIVATE /POS should do what you want. (Usually a second monitor will have X coordinates that are either negative or very large.)

It works. For example,

activate "%_wintitle" pos=1400,200,400,300

moved TCC to my second monitor (on the right, x=1280 to 2559).
But ACTIVATE POS(=left,top,width,height) is very, very hard to use. You must specify width,height (and who knows those?). Is there an easier way to simply move a window? Perhaps (if SetWindowPos() is used) when width,height is missing, the SWP_NOSIZE flag could be used.

 

[rconn]

It works. For example,

activate "%_wintitle" pos=1400,200,400,300

moved TCC to my second monitor (on the right, x=1280 to 2559).
But ACTIVATE POS(=left,top,width,height) is very, very hard to use. You must specify width,height (and who knows those?). Is there an easier way to simply move a window? Perhaps (if SetWindowPos() is used) when width,height is missing, the SWP_NOSIZE flag could be used.

See %@WINSIZE and %@WINPOS. It would be trivial to define an alias.

 

[vefatica]

See %@WINSIZE and %@WINPOS. It would be trivial to define an alias.

Yeah, I had a look at @WINSIZE. It gives height,width; POS needs width,height. I suppose that'll roughly double the length of an alias.
And while ACTIVATE may need the window caption quoted, @WINSIZE can't deal with a quoted caption.
This works but I wouldn't call it trivial.

v:\> alias movewin `activate %1 /POS=%2,%3,%@word[1,%@winsize[%@unquote[%1]]],%@word[0,%@winsize[%@unquote[%1]]]`

 

[ce4dos]

thanks a lot to all. this helped me a lot. I now use a combination of START and ACTIVATE with MAX/MIN that opens my windows, moves them and puts them to the size that I want.