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This is the TILER program from my article in the July 1987 Microsoft Systems
Journal. TILER is a Windows 2.0 program that brings back the good old days
of tiled windows. It runs as an icon, and all its commands are on the
Control menu (what used to be called the System menu). There are three
TILER commands in addition to the standard Control menu commands:
* Tile Columns Tiles your windows into columns
* Tile Rows Tiles your windows into rows
* Margins Turns margins off or on
The tiling done by this version of TILER is simplistic, but useful. (This
is not the "fancy" version of TILER that I promised in the article. The
"lack of space" I mentioned was really a lack of programming and debugging
time! <embarassed grin>)
When you choose one of the Tile commands, it takes all application windows
that are movable, resizable, and not minimized or maximized, and tiles them,
merely splitting the screen in half vertically and/or horizontally. It will
tile four windows or fewer; if there are more than four, only the topmost
four are tiled, and the rest are ignored.
If the "Margins" option is checked (the default), TILER will leave a little
blank space between the windows and around the edges. If you turn off
"Margins", TILER will pack the windows as closely together as it can.
After you tile your windows, you can still move them around independently,
overlap them, etc. TILER doesn't lock them together in the Windows 1.0x
style of tiling; it just moves them around the same way you could have done
by hand.
You can use TILER.EXE with Windows 2.0; you don't need the Windows Software
Development Kit. If you do have the SDK, source is also provided so you can
tinker with it. Let me know if you come up with an improved version!
This version of TILER has several improvements over the one in the Microsoft
Systems Journal article:
1. Now has the "Margins" option.
2. Positions windows so their client areas are byte aligned. This improves
display speed, and some Windows 2.0 apps expect this alignment.
3. Eliminates some extra repainting. This had been a workaround for a bug
in the early beta releases of Windows 2.0.
4. Activates the topmost window after tiling the windows, instead of
leaving TILER as the active window.
5. Alt-Space now works, along with Shift-Esc, to bring up Tiler's menu.
I hope you find TILER useful!
Michael Geary
P.O. Box 1479
Los Gatos, CA 95031
BIX: geary
CompuServe: 76146,42
GEnie: GEARY