hpi-swa-teaching/windowacrobatics

Window Management

Window Acrobatics

Beautiful Window Management in Squeak

Window Acrobatics bundles a number of ways you are used to interacting with your windows and puts them right into your Squeak image. Current components of Window Acrobatics include

• The Window Aligner
  • A tool that lets you align windows to specific parts of your screen easily as well as arrange them into tiles.
• The Expose View
  • An overview of all currently open windows that lets you select and thus bring to front a window.
• The Window Switcher
  • A switching tool that lets you cycle over your windows and switch between different Spaces.

Installation

Stable release

Simply download the newest .sar file from the releases section and drag it into your image.

Latest version

Do the following in a workspace:

Metacello new
	baseline: #WindowAcrobatics;
	repository: 'github://hpi-swa-teaching/WindowAcrobatics/packages';
	load.

You may need to activate WindowAcrobatics explicitly -- just follow the post-install instructions in your image!

Usage

You can easily customize all the shortcuts used in Window Acrobatics, as well as disable or enable its components, in the Window Acrobatics section in your Preference Browser -- here are the defaults.

Cmd/Alt +	Action
Arrow Right	Align window right
Arrow Left	Align window left
Arrow Up	Align window at the top
Arrow down	Align window at the bottom
l	Align window fullscreen
k	Arrange windows into tiles
w	Open Expose View
t	Switch between last used windows
q	Switch to left Space
e	Switch to right Space
shift+u	Cycle through windows of the same type

If you are on a Mac, use Cmd and Alt otherwise.

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Thanks to Marcel Taeumel for his work on Vivide and thus his substantial contributions to our Expose View.

windowacrobatics's Issues

Write tests for story #12

Write tests for story #5

As an enthusiastic Squeak user IWLT rearrange the focused window fullscreen in the image upon pressing a key combination chosen by myself in preferences.

As an enthusiastic Squeak user IWLT rearrange the focused window fullscreen in the image upon pressing a key combination chosen by myself in preferences -- cmd-shift-up as default.

On dashboard enable navigation by key up and down

UiEventHandler not bundled

Neither the baseline appears to pull in the dependency for the UiEventHandler, nor does the .sar from the provided release. This will cause an exception in WADashboard>>initialize.

As an enthusiastic Squeak user IWNLT get exception when trying to align windows when none is present!

Right click on window in Expose sometimes causes error.

selectedWindow is sent to UndefinedObject

As an enthusiastic Squeak user IWLT open a morph by pressing Strg + q.

Pressing keyboard shortcut to open expose again when expose already present opens another expose

Should close expose instead of opening another expose view?

Write tests for #4 and #5

Due to changed input handling, the tests are currently failing. Maybe have a look at: https://github.com/HPI-SWA-Teaching/Morphic-Testing-Framework

Implement a TDD infrastructure for the Window Manager

In order to develop in a test-first style we need a testing infrastructure for the WIndow Manager.
We will thus need to work out how testing is commonly done in Squeak and how we can use it for our project.

State explicitly that users have to press cmd with their key to use WA features.

Arrange all windows of the current space so that every windows title bar is visible (by pressing a keyboard shortcut)

Like a staircase:

Just another new idea.

Rename Dashboard to Expose

As an enthusiastic squeak user IWLT be able to go through the windows by pressing the w-key while holding the control key and backwards while holding shift additionally.

As an enthusiastic Squeak user IWLT rearrange the focused window to the left half of the screen in the image upon pressing a key combination including in the left arrow

🎈🎈🎈

As an enthusiastic Squeak user IWLT get visual feedback about what Space I have just switched to.

As an enthusiastic Squeak user IWLT exit expose view on focus on the currently selected window by releasing my designated key combination.

größe der fenster relativ zur main docking bar. (falls diese angezeigt wird)

Fix esc to quit Expose on all systems

As an enthusiastic Squeak user IWLT select a window in expose view to exit expose view and bring it to the front

Aligning overlaps DockingBar

Aligned windows will overlap the dockingbar if they're any taller than the default (e.g. after changing font size for a HiDPI screen):

As an enthusiastic Squeak user IWLT drag windows to the border of my screen to, after a certain delay, move to the space located on this side.

Image 1 for README

this is not an issue, but one misused to upload an image as a static file to GitHub as this seems to be a common way to go about this.

As an enthusiastic Squeak user IWLT arrange my windows onto different Spaces and be able to easily switch between them on key press.

As an enthusiastic Squeak user IWLT arrange my windows onto different Spaces and be able to easily switch between them on key press.

As an enthusiastic Squeak user IWLT rearrange the focused window to the upper half of the screen of the image upon pressing a key combination including the up arrow

🎈🎈🎈

As an enthusiastic squeak user IWL expose view to arrange the windows so I can see them all at once

As an enthusiastic Squeak user IWLT rearrange the focused window to the lower half of the screen of the image upon pressing a key combination including the down arrow

🎈🎈🎈

Windows align upon pressing "Cmd-Tab"

Set up Git integration for our project

As an enthusiastic Squeak user I would like to cycle through windows of the same window type by pressing a key combination

🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈

Installing an old version of WindowAcrobatics deletes "PasteUpMorph filterEvent:for:"

Fix method category of PasteUpMorph filterEvent:for:
(Ask Tobias again, I think he said you should use an "-override" category name for the extension method)

Same for KeyboardEvent>>printKeyStringOn:

Reset automatically after install and open preferences.

This is the code Erik sent us.

|preferenceBrowser|

"extract the needed files"
self fileInMonticelloZipVersionNamed:
'WindowAcrobatics-Core.mcz'.

"reset the system"
WAHandler reset.

"open the preferences for the user"
(UserDialogBoxMorph
confirm: 'Do you want to adjust your WindowAcrobatics preferences now?'
title: 'WindowAcrobatics Installation')
ifTrue: [
preferenceBrowser := PreferenceBrowser open.
preferenceBrowser selectedCategoryIndex:
(preferenceBrowser categoryList indexOf: #WindowAcrobatics)]

As an enthusiastic Squeak user IWLT to see an overview of all currently open window types by pressing a key combination

🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈

As an enthusiastic Squeak user I would like to switch between my current and the last used window by pressing a key combination

🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈

As an enthusiastic Squeak user IWLT be able to personalize expose view and keyboard shortcuts via squeak preferences

connect image to github repo

As an enthusiastic Squeak user IWLT select a window in expose view to exit expose view and focus on the selected window

🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈

Enable off and on switching of Window Acrobatics

As an enthusiastic Squeak user IWLT, when in window type overview, I would like to switch and select a window type, thus focusing on the most recently used window of this window type

Focus is not switching after using Open Expose View

After selecting a Window at "Open Expose View" and then selecting another window by normaly clicking on it, it won't get focus so you can't use the buttons of the window anymore.
Like you can see in the screenshot

After changing preferences for Dashboard, scrolling through Dashboard no longer works

Import keystring from Handler.

Fix Tile View preferences such that non-valid numbers are updated to valid ones.

As an enthusiastic Squeak user IWLT to be able to close Expose view upon pressing esc and select windows on enter on non-MacOS

As an enthusiastic Squeak user IWLT to be able to close Expose view upon pressing esc and select windows on enter on non-MacOS

As an enthusiastic Squeak user IWLT be able to arrange the n last used windows in a tile view. I would also like to be able to customize n.

As an enthusiastic Squeak user IWLT be able to arrange the n last used windows in a tile view. I would also like to be able to customize n.

As an enthusiastic Squeak user I would like to get an overview of all open windows in my image upon press of a key combination (expose view)

🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈

As an enthusiastic squeak user IWNL strange UI things to happen with a window after centering with ctrl+i

Assumption: Do not use fractions in combination with Morph>>extent:

As an enthusiastic Squeak user IWLT rearrange the focused window to the right half of the screen in the image upon pressing a key combination including the right arrow

🎈🎈🎈

Hitting "Esc" does not close the exposé if Browser has keyboard-focus

Instead the menu opens:

Fix n=6 Tile View issue.