[passmaster16]

I know this sounds dumb but is there a combo of keys to use this feature? When I'm in iTunes especially, i'd like to be able to map a shortcut to my mouse or powermate so that I only need to hit one button to toggle the iTunes window (smalll to big and big to small). I didn't see any listing for a zoom shortcut. When I mean zoom, i'm not referring to the universal access zoom, just the window control zoom. I couldn't find anything on this. Any ideas?

[eggman]

Originally posted by passmaster16:
When I'm in iTunes especially, i'd like to be able to map a shortcut to my mouse or powermate so that I only need to hit one button to toggle the iTunes window (smalll to big and big to small).

I know what you mean... and I use Keyboard Maestro to do this.

With KM, you can map keystrokes to select a specific app's menu items - so the fact that there isn't commonly a keystroke to zoom the window doesn't matter as long as you can get to it another way. You can also program it to click on x,y coordinates in windows and dialogs that correspond to buttons. Of course, QuickKeys will do this too, for a lot more money.

One sweet thing is that the macro can be programmed to activate iTunes if you're working in another app, and zoom it, so you don't even have to uncover the minimized iTunes window to select it.

The new beta version of KM also supports the Griffin Powermate, so you might want to grab the 2.0b version.

[passmaster16]

Originally posted by eggman:
I know what you mean... and I use Keyboard Maestro to do this.

With KM, you can map keystrokes to select a specific app's menu items - so the fact that there isn't commonly a keystroke to zoom the window doesn't matter as long as you can get to it another way. You can also program it to click on x,y coordinates in windows and dialogs that correspond to buttons. Of course, QuickKeys will do this too, for a lot more money.

One sweet thing is that the macro can be programmed to activate iTunes if you're working in another app, and zoom it, so you don't even have to uncover the minimized iTunes window to select it.

The new beta version of KM also supports the Griffin Powermate, so you might want to grab the 2.0b version.

Cool, man. Thanks. I don't know why there is no built-in shortcut for this but KM does it nicely. And even better because I don't even have to give iTunes focus for it to execute the macro. Very handy for quickly maximizing those important apps.