Manipulate a Window Right, 33% and 66%?

Questions & Suggestions
#1

Is it possible to resize a window to the right 33% using the built-in Manipulate a Window?

As you can see here:

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I can easily change the width to 33% in the default Left Column Manipulate a Window option and the window moves to the left at 33%, but when I try to do the same thing with the default Right Column option the windows is not all the way to the right. I know this is because of the SCREEN(Main,MidX) variable, but when I change it to SCREEN(Main,Right) it results in the window being all the way to the right off screen.

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I assume this is because of the way the OS handles window position. Is there some variable I can use to get the same results as a Left Column 33% Window on the Right side of the screen? I'm also trying to accomplish the same for a Right Column 66% and having the same issue.

#2

This is part of the upgrade notes for KM 6
Added Main,Second,Third,Internal,External as special screen indexes for SCREEN().
Added . notation for accessing point/rectangle coordinates (eg Screen1.width). <<where do you use this?

Added Context Sensitive Calculation Functions:
IMAGE(Width|Height) – the action image size.
SOURCEIMAGE(Width|Height) – the action source image size.
WINDOW(Left|Right|Top|Bottom|Width|Height|MidX|MidY) – the action window coordinates.
LENGTH() – the action text length.
FONTSIZE() – the original font size during the Apply Style action.
Added an optional percentage offset to the coordinate functions, eg SCREEN(External,Left,52%)

I think the “p” indicates a % value, but when I tested I could not get the width smaller than 50% so
I think this is one for Peter?

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#3

Use

SCREEN(Main,Left,66%)

which, for comparison, exactly equals either:

SCREEN(Main,Left) + SCREEN(Main,Width)*66%

or

SCREEN(Main,Right) - SCREEN(Main,Width)*34%
#4

Thanks. I was on the right track and this is certainly much better, but it's still not quite to the edge of the screen.

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Does this have to do with the size of the monitor I am using?

#5

No, it has to do with 33+33+33 = 99, not 100%.

You can use 33.3333% in all places, or use a width of 34%

SCREEN(Main,Width) * 34%
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#6

Using this tool, should I do away with other programs like BetterSnaptool which I use to manage sizes of windows?

#7

What tool you use for the job is entirely up to you. Keyboard Maestro can do a lot of things. Sometimes a specialised tool can do a better job, sometimes its easier to just use Keyboard Maestro for everything. It depends entirely on you and your needs and desires as to what is better.

#9

Thanks for your help @peternlewis.

This is actually what I am trying to do; Get rid of other apps that I can use Keyboard Maestro for. At first, I thought about getting rid of Keyboard Maestro, but then I realized that it actually provides so many other functions for me that other apps can’t. I had been so accustomed to using keyboard shortcuts for things that I forgot it was KM that was doing those things for me. Since manipulating windows size/location was something I was using keyboard shortcuts for with another app, it seemed only logical to migrate that over to KM.

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#10

Or you could use 1/3 and 2/3, which does equal 100% :wink: