Short: Tile windows by dragging them to an edge Author: Michele Dipace Uploader: michele dipace kaffeine net (Michele Dipace) Type: util/cdity Version: 0.43 Replaces: util/cdity/edgesnap.x86_64-aros.lha Architecture: i386-aros This is the AROS x86_64 build (ABIv11, as on AROS One x64). Aminet has no token for it, so it is filed under i386-aros: it does not run on i386 AROS. AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS have their own archive, edgesnap.lha, AROS on the Raspberry Pi has edgesnap.aarch64-aros.lha and the 32-bit AROS edgesnap.i386-aros.lha. WHAT IS NEW IN 0.43 A snapped window that you drag away by its title bar, and let go away from the edges, now gets back the size it had before it was snapped. It comes back under the pointer, which keeps its place along the title bar, as on Windows, and this works for every zone: a half, a quarter, the whole screen. If you would rather keep the snapped size, untick "Old size when dragged away" in the preferences. For tiling window managers, edgesnap.library 2.24 lists the seams between the windows of a layout group, each with a token that names its windows, and moves a seam by its token alone. A seam between windows kept apart by a gap keeps that gap when you drag it, and the whole gap lights up and can be grabbed, not only a thin strip in its middle. The four archives now come out together: one for AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS, and one each for AROS x86_64, AROS on the Raspberry Pi (aarch64) and 32-bit AROS (i386). WHAT IT IS EdgeSnap gives AmigaOS 4.x, MorphOS and AROS (x86_64, aarch64 and i386) the window snapping that Windows and macOS users reach for without thinking. Drag a window against a screen edge or corner and it glides into that half or quarter of the screen. A frame shows where it will land before you let go. Two windows that end up side by side share a seam, and that seam can be dragged: both windows are resized together, so half and half becomes sixty and forty. Docks and panels are detected and never covered. It installs as a commodity that starts with the system, so the behaviour is simply there. Nobody has to launch anything. THIS IS A BETA Version 0.43 is still a beta. I checked it on real MorphOS hardware, on a Raspberry Pi 400 with AROS aarch64, and under emulation on AmigaOS 4.1, MorphOS, AROS One 1.3 x86_64 and AROS One x86; on the Pi and under emulation by installing the package over an earlier version. On one AROS installation Wanderer's drawers can show black areas after a snap; another program that moves windows does the same there, and the AROS developers are looking into how Wanderer redraws a drawer. All of it remains worth reporting. The interface below 1.0 is not frozen. If EdgeSnap covers your dock, misses your seam or draws something odd, please include the system, version banner, steps and a screenshot in your report. Report it here, or to the address at the top of this file: https://github.com/kaffeine1/edgesnap/issues INSTALLING Unpack the archive and double-click Install. It recognises the system, proposes the matching build, and asks before doing anything: the library goes to LIBS: and the preferences window to SYS:Prefs/. On AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS the commodity goes to C: with a line in S:User-Startup. On AROS it goes to SYS:WBStartup with its icon, and the first preview's copy in C: is stopped and removed. On the Raspberry Pi and on 32-bit AROS, and on any AROS whose own Installer cannot copy files, Install does all of this by itself after one question. Updating is just installing again: the running copy is stopped and replaced, with no reboot, except that on the Raspberry Pi a new library takes over at the next boot. USING IT - Drag a window's title bar until the POINTER touches an edge or a corner, then release. - Grab the seam between two tiled windows (the pointer becomes a double arrow) and drag it to re-balance them. - Drag a snapped window away from the edges and it gets back the size it had before. - ctrl alt cursor left/right/up snap the active window, ctrl alt cursor down puts it back where it was, ctrl alt c puts it in the middle at the size it has, and ctrl alt z opens a selector under the pointer with all of that on nine cells. - Settings live in SYS:Prefs/EdgeSnap, native on each system: ReAction on AmigaOS 4, MUI on MorphOS, Zune on AROS. EdgeSnap follows changes at once, without being restarted. - Exchange enables, disables or removes it, as with any commodity. - EdgeSnap QUIT stops it from a Shell or a script. FOR PROGRAMMERS The behaviour lives in edgesnap.library, not in the commodity: the commodity is a client of it like any other program can be. Another program can place a window in a zone or in any rectangle, find and move the seam between two tiled windows, list the windows with their state, follow their changes and lay out several windows in one call. Since 2.10 the library also serves tiling window managers: one client owns the interactive drag and any number own their layouts, work areas keep an identity across a screen mode change, and a layout group can keep every other program, the commodity's drag included, off its windows. Since 2.20 a group can also keep gaps between its windows and margins from the edges of the screen. Since 2.24 a tiler can list the seams between the windows of a group and move each one by a token that names its windows, and a seam dragged between them keeps the group's gap. The included esnaptest client exercises the whole API on every system. The library says 2.24 while EdgeSnap says 0.43, and that is not a mistake: a library's version is its interface, not its product. While EdgeSnap is below 1.0 treat that interface as not frozen: methods are only ever appended, never moved or removed, but names and arguments may still change. THANKS The icons are by Carlo Spadoni, who drew them for EdgeSnap and let me ship them with it. The testers on the AROSWorld forum found the black areas in Wanderer's drawers, the colour left along the seam and the traces of the preview frame on one graphics driver, each with a video or a log that made the cause findable. A MorphOS user asked for the old size back when a snapped window is dragged away, and the author of a tiling window manager for the seams of a group. LICENCE AND SOURCE MIT. The full text is in the LICENSE file inside the archive. Source, issues and the design notes: https://github.com/kaffeine1/edgesnap