Short(cut) update
Where Keith describes one of the new features
MercuryMover v2.0 is starting to shape up! For those not yet in the know, MercuryMover is our program that lets you move and resize the windows on your Mac via the keyboard. If you're a keyboard lovin', Launchbar/Quicksilver usin' power user, then MercuryMover is definitely for you. Yesterday, i more or less got the animations down, although i reserve the right to revisit them today to try and make them a little more, er, better.
The animations in question are used to transition between MercuryMover's main heads up display that denotes which mode you are in (move, resize rightwards/downwards or resize leftwards/upwards) and the display used to save a shortcut.
What's in a Shortcut
Shortcuts is one of the main features of this release. When using MercuryMover, you'll be able to hit cmd-d to create a shortcut (the key combination might look familiar since it's the time honored key combo used to bookmark web pages in Safari, Firefox, Mozilla, Netscape and probably that one from the folks in Washington state.) Each shortcut can be the current window's size, position (it's top left corner relative to the top left corner of the main screen) or both. Even better, MM now display's the size and position in a floating heads up display so you'll know exactly what your shortcut is.For those of you keeping score at home, here's where we stand in our run up to the v2.0 beta:
- New pop-in/pop-out animations
- cool display when shortcut is saved
- Add shortcut editor to preference pane
- fix window along the left or bottom edge +/= key unexpected behavior
- change demo so that it is based on a number of uses, not a number of days
- give pref pane a once over
- change "Advanced" tab to "Keys" and list undo, redo, center and maximize
- set the copyright year automatically at build time
- Give EULA a once over
- run through clang
Up today: The shortcut editor.