douglas - i have the same setup.
i use dragthing and the following two applescripts for when i’m desk-bound or mobile. please note that there are no doubt more elegant/simple ways to do this… my coding philosophy has always been ‘hey, it works… STFU! 8-)' btw… the scripts position all of my windows so i can reconfigure my environment with one click… happy to share other code chunks if you’re interested… [email protected] bruce ============================================ when plugged into apple 27" monitor... ============================================ tell application "System Events" tell process "BBEdit" repeat with x from 1 to (count windows) set this_name to (name of window x) as text --display dialog this_name if this_name is not "Utilities" and this_name is not "HTML Tools" and this_name is not "Windows" and this_name is not "Entities" and this_name is not "CSS" and this_name is not "Find" and this_name is not "Multi-File Search" and this_name is not "BBEdit Preferences" and this_name is not "System Events" and this_name is not "Clippings" then tell window x set position to {135, 21} set size to {1372, 1078} end tell end if if this_name is "HTML Tools" then tell window x set position to {-500, 321} end tell end if end repeat end tell ============================================ when mobile... when just on mbp ============================================ tell application "BBEdit" to activate tell application "System Events" tell process "BBEdit" repeat with x from 1 to (count windows) set this_name to (name of window x) as text --display dialog this_name if this_name is not "Utilities" and this_name is not "HTML Tools" and this_name is not "Windows" and this_name is not "Entities" and this_name is not "CSS" and this_name is not "Find" and this_name is not "Multi-File Search" and this_name is not "BBEdit Preferences" and this_name is not "System Events" and this_name is not "Clippings" then tell window x set position to {11, 21} set size to {1200, 975} end tell end if end repeat end tell end tell On Wednesday, August 26, 2015 at 4:49:22 PM UTC-7, Douglas von Roeder wrote: > > Using BBEdit 11.1.2 with a MacBook Pro and 27" iMac as an external > monitor. When opening a document, BBEdit opens it to the full height of the > iMac screen. If I want to move the window to my MBP, I have to manually > resize the window. > Is there a way to restrict the size of a window when it opens? > -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email "[email protected]" rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <http://www.twitter.com/bbedit> --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BBEdit Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected].
