Cool little green button!

[mad jew]

I was a bit of a late starter to the iTunes craze so it took me a little longer than most to realise that in OSX, hitting the little green button in the top left corner made the player go into mini-mode. Yeah, I know, I'm a little slow... 🙂 But anyway, I was then reading in an OSX book that there are other apps that have similar features like mini-mode. It failed to mention what they are so I was wondering if anyone out there knows of these other apps and what pressing the little green button will do...

 

[unfaded]

Typically pressing the green button is akin to the maximise feature in Windows. Press it and find out, can't hurt 🙂

 

[mad jew]

Typically pressing the green button is akin to the maximise feature in Windows. Press it and find out, can't hurt 🙂

Yeah, I've grasped that one thanks. But are there any apps like iTunes where it has different effects? I've been clicking green buttons all day long on the ones I have to no avail so far... 🙁

 

[munkle]

Just another little tidbit...you can keep the iTunes mini player on top of all other windows by ticking the appropriate box under preferences/advanced 🙂

As for the little green button, iTunes is the only one I can think of right now which doesn't follow the usual maximise to fit rule.

 

[ClarkeB]

I don't think any apps are "maximize to fit"...it's just a zoom button. To "maximize to fit" you have to drag the corner to the corner of the screen (allthough if you have a 4:3 display it technically does max2fit)

 

[mac-er]

I don't think any apps are "maximize to fit"...it's just a zoom button. To "maximize to fit" you have to drag the corner to the corner of the screen (allthough if you have a 4:3 display it technically does max2fit)

Mail is maximizes to fit.

But, Safari (which I have stretched across my screen), shrinks to half the width of my 17" FP.

 

[ja0912]

I think what he meant by "max to fit" was "adjust window size to window content".