Can any mac user help me?

OK, I've recently got a macbook and I've just started playing FM on it. So I download it, transfer all my files over, get the patch etc... All that goes fine, swimmingly in fact. Now on Windows, I could play full screen while having other windows open in the background as I could just press the windows key was, to return to the normal screens. Anyway, I played windowed mode anyway. But if on the Mac I want to do other stuff in the background of FM, as there is no "windows" or even "mac" key for me to exit full screen, I must play windowed. Fair enough. This is how it came out when I put it into windowed:

http://img38.imageshack.us/img38/5121/picture2aiu.png

As you can see the dock is blocking the bottom of the screen.

Now in the next few screenshots, I have moved the dock to the left hand side. Why, you ask, don't I just always put it there when playing FM? I personally prefer it on the bottom, and it would be a pain to move every time I wanted to play FM.

Anyway, moving on, I move the dock to try and resize it so that I can play it with the dock on the bottom. It now looks like this:

http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/9917/picture3qdg.png

But when I try to resize it, I can only resize it horizontally, and obviously I want to move the bottom up, above the dock, so that I can play it:

http://img35.imageshack.us/img35/4005/picture5olz.png

If you look closely on the above picture, you will see that there is a square at the bottom of that faint line, next to my icons, which is my resize line, and I cannot raise this line any higher.

Has anyone had anything like this, and if so, how do you fix it?

Any help would be much appreciated.

anyone?

Matt, give everyone more than 10 mins to reply. It is a Bank Holiday, you just have to be patient

Matt, give everyone more than 10 mins to reply. It is a Bank Holiday, you just have to be patient

lol, I know, sorry about that

You can't resize it.

That's one of my major gripes about the Mac version.

You could put your dock onto hiding, so it disappears though.

You could turn hiding on, that might work. Or do what weeman said and hide the dock.

Yeah, but when I go down to press continue, won't it just re-appear?

Why can't we resize? Is it something to do with resolution or something?

I can resize mine just fine. What size screen do you have?

13 Inch Macbook

hide the dock, then press F3, to go into your other active windows, is that what you mean?

F3 is expose isn't it?

Yeah I don't think that works when you've got a full screen window like FM up. I'll check again later but I'm pretty sure it doesn't

F3 is expose isn't it?

Yeah I don't think that works when you've got a full screen window like FM up. I'll check again later but I'm pretty sure it doesn't

it does for me?

^OK, I'll check later

If so, then this would solve my problem

let me know if it doesnt.

when playing FM you can press 'apple D' to hide the dock temporarily...thats what i do

If I click the little box for resizing, the one bottom right corner, it let's me make it wider or narrower, but not longer or shorter.

13" is the issue. You just have to live with it. Hid the dock and miss the bottom bar out.

If I click the little box for resizing, the one bottom right corner, it let's me make it wider or narrower, but not longer or shorter.

This is my problem

13" is the issue. You just have to live with it. Hid the dock and miss the bottom bar out.

Looks like I'll have to do that

thanks anyway

oh, do you mean that you want to see the text at the bottom of FM?

well yeah that as well, but it would be nice to get the actual window above the dock, which doesn't seem to be possible.

I'll have a look at that expose thing you suggested later, got a bit of revision to do atm.

hey mate ive got a mac press cmd-d and it will go and press it again for it come back up

http://community.sigames.com/showthread.php?t=117996

try the solution in there, assuming the same file is also in FM09, cant say i've looked or am really bothered bout missing the bottom bit

As far as I know, you'll always have the bottom half centimetre missing if playing windowed on a mac. what I do is have the game running at full screen for when I want to play, then just press cmd + tab to switch to windowed, so I can switch to other windows, then back to full screen FM when I want to resume playing. Cos lets be honest, you can't really do two things at once anyhow, or if you can, let me know how!

I just find it a minor inconvenience to be honest, compared to the general mass inconvenience of using a Windows PC!

it does for me?

Yeah, I tried it, it's still not working.

Nevermind, I'll just hide the dock and live with it. thanks everyone

Is just the problem that there is the tiny bit missing when the dock is hidden? I've never found this to cause a problem, what do you miss?

As far as I know, you'll always have the bottom half centimetre missing if playing windowed on a mac. what I do is have the game running at full screen for when I want to play, then just press cmd + tab to switch to windowed, so I can switch to other windows, then back to full screen FM when I want to resume playing. Cos lets be honest, you can't really do two things at once anyhow, or if you can, let me know how!

I just find it a minor inconvenience to be honest, compared to the general mass inconvenience of using a Windows PC!

Why would you not use Spaces (Multiple Desktops) to have your other programs running and then you can use the Cmd + Arrow Keys to switch between the different desktops. I currently have 6 desktops running, 1 with Mail, 1 with Safari, 1 with FM, 1 with Parallels (so I can have Windows XP running), 1 with iTunes and 1 free. As for having the bottom section of the FM window missing, I never use it any way as I use the Spacebar to continue.

Why would you not use Spaces (Multiple Desktops) to have your other programs running and then you can use the Cmd + Arrow Keys to switch between the different desktops. I currently have 6 desktops running, 1 with Mail, 1 with Safari, 1 with FM, 1 with Parallels (so I can have Windows XP running), 1 with iTunes and 1 free. As for having the bottom section of the FM window missing, I never use it any way as I use the Spacebar to continue.

You can when you use Windowed mode, but in Full screen mode, you can't

And to J.Price, yeah, it's just a minor thing really, but its a pain to have to hide/move the dock every time i wanna play FM

leave your dock where it is and play fm in full screen mode

when you want to do other stuff press apple+tab and select the finder, this will make the dock appear over fm and then you can do whatever you want, open new windows, run other apps etc

to return to fm just press apple+tab again and select fm

does this help?

yeah thanks peter