Can get new messages in center of screen?

[kevs12]

Version: 2004 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) Processor: Intel Email Client: pop I'm on new imac 27"
Boy, open new mail message and it shoots over to the left side of the monitor. Wasn't so bad with 20 CTR.
Anyway to get them to be centered? thanks!

 

[Diane Ross]

Anyway to get them to be centered? thanks!

Try this...

Move message to desired location.
Click on the red close button.
Reopen and see if the location sticks.

Some Entourage windows can¹t be resized or moved.

--
Diane Ross, Microsoft Mac MVP
Entourage Help Page <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/>
Entourage Help Blog <http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/>
YouTalk <http://tinyurl.com/bzcrjy> <-- Entourage mailing list
Twitter: follow <http://twitter.com/entouragehelp>

 

[kevs12]

Diane, that works fine for the general interface window,
but when I click on new mail, that shoots over to far left of this huge screen -- moving it center -- does not stick for the next new email

 

[Diane Ross]

Diane, that works fine for the general interface window,
but when I click on new mail, that shoots over to far left of this huge screen
-- moving it center -- does not stick for the next new email

Try it a couple of more times. A new message window works for me.

 

[kevs12]

Diane,
thanks, ok, just tried 5 more time, closing, quitting. new email shoots up to left upper left of screen, so annoying, beyond belief, any other ideas let me know!

 

[Kerry]

Diane,
thanks, ok, just tried 5 more time, closing, quitting. new email shoots
up to left upper left of screen, so annoying, beyond belief, any other
ideas let me know!

I have the same issue and have a 23" Cinema Display and found that
annoying so I can imagine on a 27" it would be very annoying. The way
I solved this problem is using Quickeys. When I open a new e-mail I
just press ctrl-opt-m which I've assigned to Quickeys to open the
Window and then reposition it on my screen. This happens quickly and
works perfectly for me. You can tell Quickeys to put you new message
anywhere you'd like it on the screen. From thereon that action will
put all messages in that spot.

Quickeys is a very powerful macro program and can Automate basically
every function on your Mac. So its worth it for a variety of reasons.

One other thing is that mail will open a new window where you
positioned its last Window. However, although I find mail an alright
program I don't find it nearly as nice an e-mail client as Entourage.
So I have Quickeys automate many processes in Entourage.

This might be your best solution. You could probably write an
Applescript to do this but then it would be laborious to invoke
whereas Quickeys can activate an action in numerous ways the fastest
being a hotkey.

 

[Kerry]

Diane,
thanks, ok, just tried 5 more time, closing, quitting. new email shoots
up to left upper left of screen, so annoying, beyond belief, any other
ideas let me know!

I have the same issue and have a 23" Cinema Display and found that
annoying so I can imagine on a 27" it would be very annoying. The way
I solved this problem is using Quickeys. When I open a new e-mail I
just press ctrl-opt-m which I've assigned to Quickeys to open the
Window and then reposition it on my screen. This happens quickly and
works perfectly for me. You can tell Quickeys to put you new message
anywhere you'd like it on the screen. From thereon that action will
put all messages in that spot.

Quickeys is a very powerful macro program and can Automate basically
every function on your Mac. So its worth it for a variety of reasons.

One other thing is that mail will open a new window where you
positioned its last Window. However, although I find mail an alright
program I don't find it nearly as nice an e-mail client as Entourage.
So I have Quickeys automate many processes in Entourage.

This might be your best solution. You could probably write an
Applescript to do this but then it would be laborious to invoke
whereas Quickeys can activate an action in numerous ways the fastest
being a hotkey.

 

[Diane Ross]

any other ideas let me know!

See this tip:

An AppleScript/Java solution to move and resize window

<http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20090714230045279>

Note: requires that the MoveResize app is in the main Applications folder.

--
Diane Ross, Microsoft Mac MVP
Entourage Help Page <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/>
Entourage Help Blog <http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/>
YouTalk <http://tinyurl.com/bzcrjy> <-- Entourage mailing list
Twitter: follow <http://twitter.com/entouragehelp>

 

[Diane Ross]

any other ideas let me know!

Keyboard Maestro released v4 today and it¹s easy to set up a macro to center
the window using the Run feature. See this screenshot:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dianeross/4170526124/

See this page for using Keyboard Maestro with Entourage:

http://www.entourage.mvps.org/get_started/shortcuts.html

KM is $36 or upgrade $18. It¹s from the makers of Interarchy. I¹m not
affiliated with the product...just a satisfied user.

 

[kevs12]

Diane, thanks!
Going to try KM. heard great things on it. Downloaded it twice but not on my desktop, so I email tech support.

 

[Kerry]

Diane, thanks!
Going to try KM. heard great things on it. Downloaded it twice but not
on my desktop, so I email tech support.

I just want to throw this in there. I've used KM and it is not nearly
as powerful as Quickeys. i've used Quickeys on the Mac for 20 years
and they cannot be matched by iKey or Keyboard Maestro. However, it
might suit your needs as possibly you might want it to do the odd
thing. If though, you suddenly want to do this you can easily go
beyond the bounds of these other Macro programs. Quickeys no. In fact,
reviewers have commented on how great Automator is but its limited and
if you want to go beyond that you need Quickeys or write Applescripts.
You'll need though something like Quickeys though to easily activate
an Applescript or for that matter Automator. So even though you can
make an Automator action part of Services its still faster to invoke
it with Quickeys and Quickeys has the intelligence to invoke something
when something happens on your Mac - it starts up, an app appears, by
date and time etc etc. So just a word of caution when you choose a
Macro program. If your going to spend the money I'd get the best.

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

I just want to throw this in there. I've used KM and it is not nearly
as powerful as Quickeys

Out of curiosity, have you taken a look at the new Keyboard Maestro 4.0
that just came out??
It also comes with an iPhone app to remote-control your actions. I find
it quite powerful (but your needs might be different than mine of
course).


Corentin

 

[Diane Ross]

Going to try KM. heard great things on it. Downloaded it twice but not on my
desktop, so I email tech support.

Open your downloads window from your browser. Select the file and click
³find in Finder².

 

[kevs12]

Thanks Diane/others.
I'm in touch with guy at KM. keep you posted.

 

[Kerry]

needs might be different than mine of

course).


Corentin
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Hey Corentin, no I haven't tried KM lately. When I did as far as I
remember this is a one man shop and I wasn't too comfortable with
that. Plus, KM just couldn't do what I want. The reason I looked at it
is that the version of Quickeys before v4 did not have a search
function and I have so many macros it was unweildy. It now has a
search function.

In v4 they also added what's called webactions so Quickeys can now
interact directly with a web page and automate that page as opposed to
just doing outputs such as mouse and text outputs. Webactions is very
fast on the page as it works with the underlying code of a web page.
Because of this though there is the odd web page that won't respond to
web actions due to say unique underlying code which web actions cannot
interact with.

However, a number of my Quickeys are automated web pages so this is
extremely useful. One of the best examples is Quickeys logs me onto my
various banking websites and will download my transactions and upload
them all into Quicken. From there, I just have to accept the
transactions to ensure Quicken is balanced properly. Its a real time-
saver.

But I have Quickeys doing a ton of stuff all on its own when certain
things happen. As another example, at 2:57 am (I'm asleep) it wakes
the computer and closes all running apps to prep the computer for
backups. After that's all finished (knows this by what apps are doing)
it sleeps the computer. Then in the morning it wakes the computer and
starts up everything I start with in my day. Just one example of
numerous things I have it do.

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

Hey Corentin, no I haven't tried KM lately. When I did as far as I
remember this is a one man shop and I wasn't too comfortable with
that.

It is, but that one man isn't just anybody: It's Peter Lewis. The same
one who was at the source of Internet Config and Anarchie/Interarchy.

[...]

But I have Quickeys doing a ton of stuff all on its own when certain
things happen. As another example, at 2:57 am (I'm asleep) it wakes
the computer and closes all running apps to prep the computer for
backups. After that's all finished (knows this by what apps are doing)
it sleeps the computer. Then in the morning it wakes the computer and
starts up everything I start with in my day. Just one example of
numerous things I have it do.

That, for sure, KM can do too,

Corentin

 

[kevs12]

Yes, got KM, fantastic, becuase of Peter who is fantasitc. I had Interarchy too.

 

[Diane Ross]

Yes, got KM, fantastic, becuase of Peter who is fantasitc. I had Interarchy
too.

You¹ll enjoy assigning shortcuts to some of the menu items that you use
frequently that¹s don¹t have a shortcut assigned.

When you use the record feature, I find you need to delete some of the
beginning steps that you are doing to just get started.

 

[Kerry]

Yes, got KM, fantastic

That's good. You should find with a Macro program that it will nicely
extend your mac and save time, reduce errors and speed up function.
So, moving that Window in Entourage is now easy. Its odd that it
doesn't just stick in Entourage but it never has. And I think you were
the one who said you had a 27" iMac and it would be really annoying
with it way over on the left.

I've actually been thinking of getting the iMac myself as I notice I
just don't use my Macbook Pro as a portable anymore but just have it
really working as a desktop connected to my 23" Cinema Display. Its a
great setup but it almost strikes me as a waste. My next machine will
probably be the iMac but I was really having trouble deciding between
that 27" and the 21.5". Apple convinced me I only need the 21.5" for
my needs. However, I'm kind of keen on that i5/7 processor as I think
that's where we're headed now.

I've been looking at Apple.com and it seems a lot of people are
receiving these Macs with issues - cracked screen on the 27" and some
kind of noise on the 21.5".

Can I ask, what's your opinion of the 27". Do you find the screen
feels a bit too big. Apple did say though that if I were using my
computer sort of like a TV watching video then the 27" makes sense or
doing video editing and I don't do either

I'm not in any rush mind you as my current config is very good. I do
realize getting the iMac would lead to one little more step - keeping
my Macbook Pro is sync with the desktop (I'd keep the Macbook Pro for
now just to make sure I really don't need a portable anymore). I got
lots of great feedback at Apple.com but people were of three minds -
get the 27" you'll get used to size quickly, you only need the 21.5"
and keep the system you have as its completely current. So, as one guy
said, control your buying itch as there is no rush for you. Oh and on
the i5/7 everyone agreed I don't need that but I do think this is
where we're headed so if I change I want it to be as current as pos

 

[Kerry]

Corentin

Thanks Corentin. I thought it was a one man shop. No there's nothing
wrong with that but I'm not as comfortable with one man shops.... I
don't know who Peter Lewis is but I'll Google him. I always find these
things interesting.

I wouldn't switch out of Quickeys though as I have way too much
programmed in it including a couple of complicated Macros that use if-
then-else statements, variables and mathematical operators and this
would be too difficult to replicate if I even could. When I went back
to the Mac from the PC I used a great Macro program on the PC (not
Quickeys as its not as strong under Windows) in which I had a number
of macros that used variables but this program was easy to setup
variables. Quickeys is trickier when developing a macro that uses
variables and operators.

Plus, I've used it for like I say 20 years with the Mac. But the real
thing is I've got literally over two hundred Macros andI know it so
well. Its just so totally automatic for me in the way I interact with
my Mac which is frequently through a Quickey and at least a dozen of
those Quickeys run Automator routines and two Applescript routines.
Too much invested and they fixed all the little annoyances I had with
it in v4. In fact, v4 is their nicest implementation ever. The Apple
guys I speak to also use it so hey I'm in sync with them LOL!

Anyway, thanks for telling me about this guy. I'll look him up as this
type of stuff always interests me.