WinCardinalMover

Provides window moving, resizing, and snapping from anywhere within a window. Constrains to monitor edges, does NOT SUPPORT multiple monitors yet.

The center of the window is assigned to moving the window. The first 20% from the inner edge of each window is assigned to resizing based on the cardinal directions: N, S, W, E, NE, SE, NW, and SW. Double clicking each region with your defined hotkey will initiate an aero snap like feature.

Motivation

I grew tired of needing to be super accurate with my mouse when resizing windows. Thinner window borders and higher resolutions have exacerbated the issue.

Demo

Try it out yourself. Run the included demo.ahk file for a GUI which dynamically shows the active hotkey regions.

Example Usage

The "forward" mouse button on your mouse will activate WinCardinalMover. Holding Ctrl after first holding XButton2 will add taskbar constraining. Double clicking XButton2 will trigger the corresponding snap region.

#Requires AutoHotkey v2
#Include <ahk-wincardinalmove\WinCardinalMover>

XButton2::WinCardinalMover("XButton2", "Ctrl")

Do you want customized snaps? With WinCardinalMover.snap you can override the default WinMove math behind the move and cardinal regions.

The 2nd paramter of .snap is a callback so you could also execute other random bits of code on snapping if you wanted. As long as you always return [x,y,w,h] it'll just work.

#Requires AutoHotkey v2
#Include <ahk-wincardinalmove\WinCardinalMover>

WinCardinalMover
  .snap("north", (this) => [
    this.HALF_WIDTH / 2, ;x
    this.win.offsets.top, ;y
    this.HALF_WIDTH, ;width
    this.HALF_HEIGHT ;height
  ])
  .snap("south", (this) => [
    this.HALF_WIDTH / 2,
    this.HALF_HEIGHT - this.win.offsets.bottom,
    this.HALF_WIDTH,
    this.HALF_HEIGHT - this.TASKBAR_HEIGHT
  ])
  .snap("southeast", (this) => [
    this.HALF_WIDTH,
    this.HALF_HEIGHT,
    this.HALF_WIDTH - this.win.offsets.right,
    this.HALF_HEIGHT - this.TASKBAR_HEIGHT
  ])

XButton2::WinCardinalMover("XButton2")

If you prefer, you could keep these .snap customizations really simple like this:

WinCardinalMover.snap("move", (*) => [0,0,1920,1080])