Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Sizer - nice little window sizing tool

I was just looking at the blog of Jeff Winkler, another member of the Boston Java Meetup and saw his entry, "Fix Offscreen Windows Easily with Sizer". Using a screencast, he describes a cool little app called Sizer, which allows you to set the exact size of an application window on a Windows machine (looks like it doesn't support Vista yet), but also helps you make lost/off-screen windows visible again. It comes with three preset window sizes (640x480, 800x600, and 1024x768), but you can easily add your own by right-clicking on Sizer's System Tray icon and choosing "Configure Sizer...". I've added a few which subtract the approximate height of the taskbar (30 pixels on my machine) so that I can see what an app would look like at other standard monitor sizes. I like my widescreen monitor, but I know not everyone has one. I hope you find it useful.
Posted by Matt Passell at 1:13 PM
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4 comments:

  1. twigchanFebruary 20, 2008 at 1:59 PM

    Nice... just hate it when I run across those windows that can only be "maximized full screen" or "lost".

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  2. twigchanFebruary 20, 2008 at 2:01 PM

    Nice... hate it when I come across the windows that doesn't have a good working "preferred size".

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  3. twigchanFebruary 20, 2008 at 2:01 PM

    Nice.... hate it when I come across the windows that don't have a good "preferred size".

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  4. UnknownFebruary 28, 2008 at 3:53 PM

    I use a laptop for work, and while I'm in the office I have it docked so that I can use 2 monitors. My problem is that eclipse remembers that the open file dialog appears on my 2nd monitor. This means that if I'm not docked I need to use creative ways of opening files that are not in the workspace. I was hoping that this program would help, but the move to top left corner only moves the window to the top left corner of the monitor that the window is on... Sigh...

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