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Description:

The basic purpose of WinSplit Revolution is to provide the ability to move a window to a specific position on your screen. Think of the screen as a grid. Using WinSplit the process of placing windows is simple and intuitive. Using the numeric keypad you can think of the layout of the keypad as a sort of map of where the window positions will be on the screen. By hitting a combination of CTRL + ALT and the appropriate number on the keypad you can quickly send windows to specific quadrants of the screen.

To move the foreground window (which is focused) to a specific location on the screen using the following shortcuts:
Ctrl + Alt + Numeric Pad

Ctrl+Alt+1 = Bottom left corner of the screen
Ctrl+Alt+2 = Bottom part
Ctrl+Alt+3 = Bottom right corner
Ctrl+Alt+4 = Left part
Ctrl+Alt+5 = Full screen
Ctrl+Alt+6 = Right part
Ctrl+Alt+7 = Upper left corner
Ctrl+Alt+8 = Upper part
Ctrl+Alt+9 = Upper right corner

There are two modes for window placement. The first time you move a window (for example Ctrl+Alt+7) the window moves to the upper left corner, taking a quarter of the screen (1/2 of the screen for the width and height). This makes it possible to show 4 windows at the same time (one window at each quarter). If you press the key combination again for a window which is still at the same placement, the window takes 1/6 of the screen (1/2 screen's height and 1/3 screen's width) thus it is possible to show up to 6 windows at the same time.

Exceptions: When you press a shorcut to move a window, WinSplit Revolution moves the foreground, i.e. the window that has focus. But if this one is a topmost window (always on top) WinSplit doesn't move it, it will move the last focused non-topmost window.

Virtual Numpad (Pop-up)

The pop-up is a little control that allows you to avoiding having to use your keybord to move a window. It is useful for people who dislike shortcuts or owners of laptops that do not have numeric pad keys. To active this control just left click on WinSplit Revolution's icon on the system tray. The first time you left click on it, a control like the following figure appears.

To move the foreground window to a specific position, just click on one of the 9 buttons relevant to the desired placement location. The two modes regarding placement still apply (1/2 and 1/2 or 1/2 and 1/3) with the virtual numpad pop-up control. There is a checkbox under the 9 buttons, which (if checked) allows the control to be locked and always on top otherwise the pop-up control will disappear after the placement. It's possible to keep the pop-up at a position while excluding the frame around the control by left clicking again on he WinSplit Revolution's system tray icon. This causes the pop-up control to look like this:

Special functions

In this section we explain the special functions implemented in WinSplit.

Mosaic function

Ctrl+Alt+m: This function evaluate the best arrangement to show several windows at the same time.

Close All function

Ctrl+Alt+c: This function instantaneously close all windows opened on the taskbar, by sending a WM_CLOSE message to the windows.

Fusion function

Ctrl+Alt+f: The purpose of this function is to tile the two last selected windows in addition to customizing the location of the split. By default each windows takes up half of the screen (one at the left, the other at the right), and the windows appear with a slider to change the ratio between the both windows. So it's possible to have 30% - 70% or a 40% - 60% ratio for window placement.

Auto placement function

Ctrl+Alt+ NumericPad 0: This function allow the user to memorize the position of a window. The fisrt step is to place the window where you want it to be memorized. Then, press Ctr+Alt+0 and WinSplit Revolution will detect that this process is not yet saved, and propose you to save it. After saving the window process, to replace it at the last saved place, press again Ctrl+Alt+0 then WinSplit Revolution will detect that the window process is saved and will place automatically to the saved place.

If you want to memorize another position for this window, you first have to go in the options dialog box, select the corresponding entry in the "Delete saved Auto-placements" zone of the "General" tab, and press the "Delete" button.

Move window to screen

Ctrl+Alt+ Left / Right: For owners of multi screen, it is possible to move a window from a screen to another. For now you can move a window on horizontal direction (Left/Right).

Drag'n'go

Ctrl+Alt+ Moving a window with the mouse: Will moving a window (move naturally with the mouse) if you press Crt+Alt at the same time, WinSplit Revolution will propose an automatic placement respected to the user layout, as shown on the picture:

In this case I move the explorer window to the bottom-left corner, then WinSplit Revolution detect that correspond to a layout position, and propose with a translucent window this possibility, when I release the mouse (pressing Ctrl+Alt) the window will be aspired at this place.

This feature is not completely supported on 64 bit platform

Active window tools

Ctrl + Alt + T : Pressing these keys will allow you :

to take a screenshot of the active window, and putting this screenshot in the clipboard, or saving it as an image file
change the transparency of the active window
add the style "always on top" to the active window

Toggle "Always on top"

Pressing Ctrl + Alt + O will allow you to directly set or remove the "Always on top" style for the active window.

Maximize horizontally or vertically

Ctrl + Alt + H or V : Pressing these keys will maximize the active window horizontally (Ctrl + Alt + H) or vertically (Ctrl + Alt + V).

Settings

To set the WinSplit's behavior, right click on the system tray icon. The following menu appears:

Hotkey settings: The Hotkey settings section, allows you to change the shortcut associated with a task. It's possible to change and/or to deactivate a task.
Layout settings: change the default layout.
Options section: This option configures 3 things, the first one is to manage the auto-position option, the second is to manage the pop-up control's behavior, the last is to select the language.
Launch with Microsoft Windows (OS):
This option causes WinSplit Revolution to launch automatically with windows startup.

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