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.(You won't see the in-between sizes that Mac OS X generally calculates on the fly.)As noted in Figure 3-3, you may not be able to enlarge the Dock, especially if it contains a lot of icons.But youcan make it almost infinitely smaller.Which makes you wonder: How can you distinguish between icons if they'rethe size of molecules?Figure 3-3.Look closely you can see the secret cursor that resizes the Dock.If you don't see anychange in the Dock size as you drag upward, you've reached the size limit.The Dock's edges arealready bumping your screen sides.The answer lies in the Dock Turn Magnification On command.What you've just done is trigger theswelling effect shown in Figure 3-4.Now your Dock icons balloon to a much larger size as your cursor passesover them.It's a weird, rippling, magnetic sort of animated effect that takes some getting used to.But it's yetanother spectacular demonstration of the graphics technology in Mac OS X, and it can actually come in handywhen you find your icons otherwise shrinking away to nothing.Figure 3-4.To find a comfortable setting for the Magnification slider, choose Dock DockPreferences.Leave the Dock Preferences window open on the screen, as shown here.After eachadjustment of the Dock Size slider, try out the Dock (which still works when the Dock Preferenceswindow is open) to test your new settings. 3.2.2.3 Moving the Dock to the sides of the screenYet another approach to getting the Dock out of your way is to rotate it, so that it sits vertically against a side ofyour screen.You can rotate it in either of two ways:The menu way.From the Dock submenu, choose "Position on Left," "Position on Right," or"Position on Bottom," as you see fit.The mouse way.While pressing Shift, drag the Dock's divider line, as though it's a handle, directly tothe side of the screen you want.You'll probably find that the right side of your screen works better than the left.Most Mac OS X programs puttheir document windows against the left edge of the screen, where the Dock and its labels might get in the way.NOTEWhen you position your Dock vertically, the "right" side of the Dock becomes the bottom.In otherwords, the Trash now appears at the bottom of the vertical Dock.So as you read references to theDock in this book, mentally substitute the phrase "bottom part of the Dock" when you readreferences to the "right side of the Dock."[ Team LiB ] [ Team LiB ]3.3 Using the DockMost of the time, you'll use the Dock as either a launcher (click an icon once to open the corresponding program,file, folder, or disk) or as a status indicator (the tiny black triangles, identified in Figure 3-1, indicate whichprograms are running).But the Dock has more tricks than that up its sleeve.You can use it, for example, to pull off any of the followingstunts.3.3.1 Switch ApplicationsIn some ways, the Dock is exactly like the torn-off Application menu of Mac OS 9.For example, it lets you:Jump among your open programs by clicking their icons.Jump among your open programs by pressing -Tab.(That keystroke highlights successive icons on theDock from left to right.Add the Shift key to move backwards right to left across the Dock.)-drag a document (such as a text file) onto a Dock application button (such as the Microsoft Wordicon) to open the former with the latter.Hide all windows of the program you're in by Option-clicking another Dock icon.This is just a quick summary of the Dock's application-management functions; you'll find the full details inChapter 4.3.3.2 Operate the Dock by Keyboard ControlIf you turn on the amazing Mac OS X feature called full keyboard access, you can operate the Dock entirely fromthe keyboard; see Section 4.4.3.3.3 Use Secret MenusDon't get so enamored of single-clicking the Dock icons that you miss this one.It turns out that if you Control-click a Dock icon or, if you're in no hurry, hold down the mouse button on it a hidden menu sprouts out of it(Figure 3-5).Figure 3-5.Control-click a Dock icon, or click and hold on it, to open the secret menu.The names atthe top of this shortcut menu are the names of the windows currently open in that program.Thecheckmark next to a window's name indicates that it's the frontmost window of that program (even ifthat program is in the background). If you've clicked a minimized window icon, this shortcut menu says only the name of the window.If you'veclicked the icon of an application that's not running at the moment (or an alias), the menu says only Show InFinder.But if you've clicked the icon of a running application, you get some incredibly useful commands that have neverbefore been available in the Mac OS.For example:[Window names.] At the top of the shortcut menus of most running-application Dock icons, you'll findat least one tiny, neatly labeled window icon, like those shown in Figure 3-5.This useful new Mac OS Xfeature means that you can jump directly not just to a certain program, but to a certain open window inthat program.For example, suppose you've been using Word to edit three different chapters.You can use its Dock iconas a Window menu to pull forward one particular chapter even from within a different program [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]

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