Adjust Windows according to Dock settings

[Ugo DI LUCA]

Hi,

Any way I can capture the Dock size, scale and position so to decide how to position my FileMaker Windows for Mac users ?

Thanks

[MoonShadow]

I'm unsure what a Dock is, but if it's like a Windows task bar, you can use Get(WindowDesktopHeight) and Get(WindowDesktopWidth) to size a window within this space. In this way, even if a task bar is positioned down the right-side, the window will position correctly. Again, I don't know Macs but you might play with these and see how your Mac windows respond. If you get scrolls just decrease height & width size by 1 px and try again.

Hmmm, I'm curious what a Dock looks like now! Can someone attach a picture for me??

[Fenton]

It appears to me that FileMaker knows where the dock is and what its size is. When you AdjustWindow[Maximize] or [ResizeToFit] it does not override the Dock. So, you could run one of those, capture the WindowWidth and Height, then you'd know.

AppleScript can run shell scripts that can read various attributes, which you could set into variables:

do shell script "defaults read com.apple.dock"

tells you everything about it (way too much)

do shell script "defaults read com.apple.dock largesize"

This is the size, as Unicode text

Screen width - this = maximum window with

do shell script "defaults read com.apple.dock orientation"

do shell script "defaults read com.apple.dock pinning"

do shell script "defaults read com.apple.dock running"

whether it's even running

do shell script "defaults read com.apple.dock autohide"

whether it's showing right now

do shell script "defaults read com.apple.dock mineffect"

scale, suck or genie -)

(P.S. Attached is my Dock at the moment. I run a fairly lean one. The background is a Van Gogh painting of an orchard, a little washed out looking under the transparency.)

Dock.pdf

[Ugo DI LUCA]

Thanks for answering.

I'll have a go this evening as soon as I get back to my computer and project files.

Good thing FileMaker recognizes it.