Control Window Size when Opening a Document

[Douglas von Roeder]

Using BBEdit 11.1.2 with a MacBook Pro and 27" iMac as an external monitor. When opening a document, BBEdit opens it to the full height of the iMac screen. If I want to move the window to my MBP, I have to manually resize the window. 

Is there a way to restrict the size of a window when it opens? 

[Patrick Woolsey]

You can control the default size & position of editing windows
by just creating a new editing window (File -> New -> Text
Window), resizing and/or moving that window to whatever size and
position you prefer, and then selecting Window -> Save Default Window.

Once you have done so, BBEdit will use the specified size &
position as the defaults for all new editing windows.

Next, if you move an editing window from a larger to a smaller
display, BBEdit should automatically 'shrink' that window to fit
entirely into the smaller display.

Last but by no means least :-), if you're familiar with
AppleScript, you can quite readily use it to make further window
positioning refinements.


Regards,

Patrick Woolsey
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Bare Bones Software, Inc. <http://www.barebones.com/>

[Bruce Linde]

douglas -

i have the same setup.

i use dragthing and the following two applescripts for when i’m desk-bound or mobile.

please note that there are no doubt more elegant/simple ways to do this… my coding philosophy has always been ‘hey, it works… STFU!  8-)'

btw… the scripts position all of my windows so i can reconfigure my environment with one click… happy to share other code chunks if you’re interested… bli...@5happy.com

bruce

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when plugged into apple 27" monitor...

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tell application "System Events"

tell process "BBEdit"

repeat with x from 1 to (count windows)

set this_name to (name of window x) as text

--display dialog this_name

if this_name is not "Utilities" and this_name is not "HTML Tools" and this_name is not "Windows" and this_name is not "Entities" and this_name is not "CSS" and this_name is not "Find" and this_name is not "Multi-File Search" and this_name is not "BBEdit Preferences" and this_name is not "System Events" and this_name is not "Clippings" then

tell window x

set position to {135, 21}

set size to {1372, 1078}

end tell

end if

if this_name is "HTML Tools" then

tell window x

set position to {-500, 321}

end tell

end if

end repeat

end tell

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when mobile... when just on mbp

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tell application "BBEdit" to activate

tell application "System Events"

tell process "BBEdit"

repeat with x from 1 to (count windows)

set this_name to (name of window x) as text

--display dialog this_name

if this_name is not "Utilities" and this_name is not "HTML Tools" and this_name is not "Windows" and this_name is not "Entities" and this_name is not "CSS" and this_name is not "Find" and this_name is not "Multi-File Search" and this_name is not "BBEdit Preferences" and this_name is not "System Events" and this_name is not "Clippings" then

tell window x

set position to {11, 21}

set size to {1200, 975}

end tell

end if

end repeat

end tell

end tell

[Christopher Stone]

On Aug 26, 2015, at 19:00, Bruce Linde <bli...@5happy.com> wrote:

tell application "System Events"

tell process "BBEdit"

repeat with x from 1 to (count windows)

set this_name to (name of window x) as text

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Hey Bruce,

There's no need to have System Events talk to the BBEdit process, when you can talk to BBEdit directly.

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tell application "BBEdit"

  

  tell (project windows whose ¬

    name is not "clipping" and ¬

    name is not "Clippings" and ¬

    name is not "CSS" and ¬

    name is not "Entities" and ¬

    name is not "untitled" and ¬

    name is not "Utilities")

    

    set bounds to {340, 45, 1380, 1196}

    

  end tell

  

  tell palette "HTML Tools"

    if its visible is true then

      set its position to {1781, 39}

    end if

  end tell

  

end tell

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This way you can automatically filter out non-project windows and such.

And by changing the formatting a bit you can make it more readable and maintainable.

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Best Regards,

Chris