Hi Chris,
Presumably the Zoom button in AppleWorks doesn't zoom to an 8.5x11 page if you have a different page size selected for the active document? If not, that's a bug.
With Safari, the zoom button takes you to the minimum width specified by the web page, and the minimum height needed to display the site's entire contents (or full-screen height if, as with most websites, you need to scroll down to read it all). If you click it again, it will normally toggle back to wherever it was before you hit the zoom button.
If any portion of the window has been dragged off-screen, the zoom button will also reposition the window so that it fits entirely on the screen.
You can test all of this on a web page that has a relatively narrow width and short height, like, for instance, the home page of:
http://davedouglas.com/
I don't find this confusing at all. Moreover, the behavior in OS X is for the most part extremely similar to the way the zoom button in Mac OS has always worked. The widget *looks* different now (green circle instead of a square inside a box) but the behavior is virtually identical. It's certainly identical behavior in Finale -- the zoom button works exactly the same in OS X as it did in OS 9 and earlier.
You'll notice that if you click the Zoom button in Mail, it always maximizes the window. That's because modern plain-text emails don't have a fixed width -- they wrap to the user's window width. Finale's behavior is similar -- it always maximizes when you click the Zoom button, because in scroll view, there's no fixed width, and Finale's programmers didn't want the Zoom button to behave differently depending on whether you are in scroll view or page view. I'm fine with that, because all of my Finale windows are maximized all of the time.
What *is* broken is that Finale doesn't follow OS X conventions for remembering window placement, and for stacking (not cascading) new windows when the current (or default) window is maximized. Quite apart from the fact that Finale ignores OS X conventions here, it's an incredible pain in the ass when you open up a set of 18 parts and have to maximize 17 of them.
- Darcy ----- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brooklyn, NY
On 02 Mar 2005, at 8:03 PM, Christopher Smith wrote:
On Mar 2, 2005, at 4:58 PM, A-NO-NE Music wrote:
Yes, under MacOS, the window position is supposed to be written to pref
file every time an app closes. Why Finale doesn't do that, is beyond me :-(
I had a hard time with the new coloured buttons in OSX when I first started. I couldn't figure out what they were supposed to do, as they all behaved differently in different applications. Darcy told me that the green button was supposed to maximise the window to the borders of the window contents, but that is not true with the two apps I use most often: Appleworks and Finale. Appleworks always makes the window the size of an 8-1/2 X 11 page, no matter what the contents are or what magnification they are at, and Finale always mazimises to the size of the desktop, no matter what the contents of the window are. Safari seems to depend on what site I am on.
No wonder I had trouble at first!
Chirstopher
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