Way to maximise ALL open windows of Application, at once?

[Cassady]

Hello all,

I have a MBP 13" most often connected to an external monitor.

Fairly frequently, for whatever reason, I might disconnect the MBP from the external, if I'm moving about or something. When I come back to reconnect, everything is thrown off, as certain of the windows have now resized for the 13" screen.

Since I regularly have 3/4 applications open, and - quite often - 10/15 windows in one of them in particular, sometimes a few others elsewhere, it becomes a very tedious affair to "maximise" all of those windows, individually, to fit the 24" external...

I have BetterTouchTool and BetterSnapTool installed, and use them with a keyboard shortcut -- but what I'm trying to work out, is if it is possible to select all the open windows of a particular application, invoke the shortcut, and have all of them maximise simultaneously?

If anyone has figured out a clever way to do this, maybe using Keyboard Maestro, or ShortCat, or BTT/BST -- please shout! Driving me nuts that this should be so clunky!

 

[Cassady]

Nothing, nada, zip?

Doesn't look like its possible, tbh... popped up similar queries elsewhere, with similar responses (rather, lack thereof)...

Apparently – in Win 7, using the Task Manager, with the Application selected, allows the option to maximise all. Haven't been able to check, since I only have a Win desktop - not a Win laptop connected to an external...

Some OSX users said they don't have any issues at all - that all the open windows snap back in to place, the moment the external monitor is connected again.

I have no such luck, but probably due to how many desktop spaces/open windows I run at once - plenty open, so guess understandable that all of them might not snap back.

Oh well. 1st world problems. I will build a bridge, and get over myself!

 

[Cassady]

Lol. Talking to myself here...

But hey - in case someone stumbles across this -- in Mavericks, holding Alt/Opt down, whilst clicking on the green Maximise button, gets close to the desired reaction.

It's not perfect, and can be a bit inconsistent depending on the order of the Windows, and how the were resized previously, but in the absence of anything else, will (mostly) do the job.

 

[Intelligent]

Theres probably an AppleScript to do it, like something set positions of windows.
Look it up! theres probably some tutorial.

 

[Cassady]

Theres probably an AppleScript to do it, like something set positions of windows.

Look it up! theres probably some tutorial.

You know I never actually thought about that. Will go look over at MacScripter! Thanks.