This is the AROS x86_64 build (ABIv11, as on AROS One x64). Aminet
has no token for it, so it is filed under i386-aros: it does not run
on i386 AROS. AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS have their own archive,
edgesnap.lha, AROS on the Raspberry Pi has edgesnap.aarch64-aros.lha
and the 32-bit AROS edgesnap.i386-aros.lha.
WHAT IS NEW IN 0.43
A snapped window that you drag away by its title bar, and let go away from
the edges, now gets back the size it had before it was snapped. It comes
back under the pointer, which keeps its place along the title bar, as on
Windows, and this works for every zone: a half, a quarter, the whole screen.
If you would rather keep the snapped size, untick "Old size when dragged
away" in the preferences.
For tiling window managers, edgesnap.library 2.24 lists the seams between
the windows of a layout group, each with a token that names its windows, and
moves a seam by its token alone. A seam between windows kept apart by a gap
keeps that gap when you drag it, and the whole gap lights up and can be
grabbed, not only a thin strip in its middle.
The four archives now come out together: one for AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS, and
one each for AROS x86_64, AROS on the Raspberry Pi (aarch64) and 32-bit AROS
(i386).
WHAT IT IS
EdgeSnap gives AmigaOS 4.x, MorphOS and AROS (x86_64, aarch64 and i386) the
window snapping that Windows and macOS users reach for without thinking.
Drag a window against a screen edge or corner and it glides into that half
or quarter of the screen. A frame shows where it will land before you let
go.
Two windows that end up side by side share a seam, and that seam can be
dragged: both windows are resized together, so half and half becomes sixty
and forty. Docks and panels are detected and never covered.
It installs as a commodity that starts with the system, so the behaviour is
simply there. Nobody has to launch anything.
THIS IS A BETA
Version 0.43 is still a beta. I checked it on real MorphOS hardware, on a
Raspberry Pi 400 with AROS aarch64, and under emulation on AmigaOS 4.1,
MorphOS, AROS One 1.3 x86_64 and AROS One x86; on the Pi and under emulation
by installing the package over an earlier version. On one AROS installation
Wanderer's drawers can show black areas after a snap; another program that
moves windows does the same there, and the AROS developers are looking into
how Wanderer redraws a drawer. All of it remains worth reporting.
The interface below 1.0 is not frozen. If EdgeSnap covers your dock, misses
your seam or draws something odd, please include the system, version banner,
steps and a screenshot in your report.
Report it here, or to the address at the top of this file:
https://github.com/kaffeine1/edgesnap/issues
INSTALLING
Unpack the archive and double-click Install. It recognises the system,
proposes the matching build, and asks before doing anything: the library
goes to LIBS: and the preferences window to SYS:Prefs/. On AmigaOS 4 and
MorphOS the commodity goes to C: with a line in S:User-Startup. On AROS it
goes to SYS:WBStartup with its icon, and the first preview's copy in C: is
stopped and removed. On the Raspberry Pi and on 32-bit AROS, and on any AROS
whose own Installer cannot copy files, Install does all of this by itself
after one question. Updating is just installing again: the running copy is
stopped and replaced, with no reboot, except that on the Raspberry Pi a new
library takes over at the next boot.
USING IT
- Drag a window's title bar until the POINTER touches an edge or a
corner, then release.
- Grab the seam between two tiled windows (the pointer becomes a
double arrow) and drag it to re-balance them.
- Drag a snapped window away from the edges and it gets back the
size it had before.
- ctrl alt cursor left/right/up snap the active window,
ctrl alt cursor down puts it back where it was, ctrl alt c puts
it in the middle at the size it has, and ctrl alt z opens a
selector under the pointer with all of that on nine cells.
- Settings live in SYS:Prefs/EdgeSnap, native on each system: ReAction
on AmigaOS 4, MUI on MorphOS, Zune on AROS. EdgeSnap follows changes
at once, without being restarted.
- Exchange enables, disables or removes it, as with any commodity.
- EdgeSnap QUIT stops it from a Shell or a script.
FOR PROGRAMMERS
The behaviour lives in edgesnap.library, not in the commodity: the commodity
is a client of it like any other program can be. Another program can place a
window in a zone or in any rectangle, find and move the seam between two
tiled windows, list the windows with their state, follow their changes and
lay out several windows in one call.
Since 2.10 the library also serves tiling window managers: one client owns
the interactive drag and any number own their layouts, work areas keep an
identity across a screen mode change, and a layout group can keep every
other program, the commodity's drag included, off its windows. Since 2.20 a
group can also keep gaps between its windows and margins from the edges of
the screen. Since 2.24 a tiler can list the seams between the windows of a
group and move each one by a token that names its windows, and a seam
dragged between them keeps the group's gap. The included esnaptest client
exercises the whole API on every system.
The library says 2.24 while EdgeSnap says 0.43, and that is not a mistake: a
library's version is its interface, not its product. While EdgeSnap is below
1.0 treat that interface as not frozen: methods are only ever appended,
never moved or removed, but names and arguments may still change.
THANKS
The icons are by Carlo Spadoni, who drew them for EdgeSnap and let me ship
them with it. The testers on the AROSWorld forum found the black areas in
Wanderer's drawers, the colour left along the seam and the traces of the
preview frame on one graphics driver, each with a video or a log that made
the cause findable. A MorphOS user asked for the old size back when a
snapped window is dragged away, and the author of a tiling window manager
for the seams of a group.
LICENCE AND SOURCE
MIT. The full text is in the LICENSE file inside the archive.
Source, issues and the design notes: https://github.com/kaffeine1/edgesnap
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