Al - There is a freeware utility named rightzoom that will change the behavior of the OSX "zoom" button/function to make it more closely mimic the Microsoft Windows maximize button/function. I use rightzoom because I personally prefer to have my current application window fill the screen completely, but the OSX zoom button was not designed to work that way. Once this utility is running and configured, you will be able to maximize most windows to fill the screen either by choosing Zoom from the Window menu, clicking the zoom button (with the plus sign on it) in the top left corner of the window, or sometimes by pressing command-option-z. Rightzoom is spelled as one word and you can find it with Google. You can configure a hot-key and define which applications you want the "maximize" behavior to apply to. I've had no problems with this utility, but as always YMMV. Also note that the term "zoom" has multiple meanings in OSX. This utility has nothing to do with the Zoom function found in Universal Access.
Cheers, Bryan On Aug 10, 2010, at 7:18 PM, Al Puzzuoli wrote: > Hi Teresa, > Thanks for this. So now, the trick will be to get my head around the way the > zoom function works. Is a window just either zoomed or not zoomed? In other > words, can zoom be clicked more than once to obtain different levels? Also, > there is apparently a plus button in the upper left of the window, which I > thought was supposed to maximize or zoom it; However, when my sighted friend > clicked that button, she said that the window actually shrunk. Ah, the joys > of trying to comprehend visual concepts from a totally nonvisual > perspective. > > > > > --Al > > -----Original Message----- > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Teresa Cochran > Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2010 6:40 PM > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: Insuring Windows are Maximized with VO? > > > Command-m is "minimize". There are various commands for zooming a window. Go > to the Window menu and find the command there. In some cases, you can press > command-option-z, but not all. The zoom option doesn't work quite the same > as maximizing in Windows OS. It takes up more of the screen, but you don't > always get the full-screen effect. Also, the text may not get any larger. > > Teresa > On Aug 10, 2010, at 2:59 PM, Pete Nalda wrote: > >> You could just type command+M. If you want to do it with VoiceOver, then > VO+M then arrow over until you get to the Window menu, then arrow down once, > and that puts you on maximize. >> >> On Aug 10, 2010, at 3:30 PM, Al Puzzuoli wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> Just wondering whether anyone can offer tips on how to determine whether > a window is maximized and if it is not, how to go about maximizing it? We > have an imac 24 here at work, and we were showing a webpage.. The page was > only occupying a part of the screen, and I had no idea how to make it full > screen using VO. >>> Thanks, >>> >>> --Al >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>> >> >> Egun On, Lagunak! (Basque for G'day, Mates) Pete Nalda >> http://www.myspace.com/musikonalda >> http://www.facebook.com/lpnalda >> http://www.linkedin.com/in/lpnalda >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
