mattant250 Posted May 25, 2009 Share Posted May 25, 2009 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. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattant250 Posted May 25, 2009 Author Share Posted May 25, 2009 anyone? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamilton162 Posted May 25, 2009 Share Posted May 25, 2009 Matt, give everyone more than 10 mins to reply. It is a Bank Holiday, you just have to be patient Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattant250 Posted May 25, 2009 Author Share Posted May 25, 2009 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 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
weeeman27bob Posted May 25, 2009 Share Posted May 25, 2009 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. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDScott Posted May 25, 2009 Share Posted May 25, 2009 You could turn hiding on, that might work. Or do what weeman said and hide the dock. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattant250 Posted May 25, 2009 Author Share Posted May 25, 2009 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? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NepentheZ Posted May 25, 2009 Share Posted May 25, 2009 I can resize mine just fine. What size screen do you have? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattant250 Posted May 25, 2009 Author Share Posted May 25, 2009 13 Inch Macbook Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
docklanders Posted May 25, 2009 Share Posted May 25, 2009 hide the dock, then press F3, to go into your other active windows, is that what you mean? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattant250 Posted May 25, 2009 Author Share Posted May 25, 2009 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 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
docklanders Posted May 25, 2009 Share Posted May 25, 2009 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? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattant250 Posted May 25, 2009 Author Share Posted May 25, 2009 ^OK, I'll check later If so, then this would solve my problem Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
docklanders Posted May 25, 2009 Share Posted May 25, 2009 let me know if it doesnt. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnTerry-look-alike Posted May 25, 2009 Share Posted May 25, 2009 when playing FM you can press 'apple D' to hide the dock temporarily...thats what i do Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
weeeman27bob Posted May 25, 2009 Share Posted May 25, 2009 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. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NepentheZ Posted May 25, 2009 Share Posted May 25, 2009 13" is the issue. You just have to live with it. Hid the dock and miss the bottom bar out. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattant250 Posted May 25, 2009 Author Share Posted May 25, 2009 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 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
docklanders Posted May 25, 2009 Share Posted May 25, 2009 oh, do you mean that you want to see the text at the bottom of FM? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattant250 Posted May 26, 2009 Author Share Posted May 26, 2009 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. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluemoon1992 Posted May 26, 2009 Share Posted May 26, 2009 hey mate ive got a mac press cmd-d and it will go and press it again for it come back up Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
elgreenio Posted May 26, 2009 Share Posted May 26, 2009 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 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
aj2kuk Posted May 26, 2009 Share Posted May 26, 2009 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! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattant250 Posted May 27, 2009 Author Share Posted May 27, 2009 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 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.Price Posted May 27, 2009 Share Posted May 27, 2009 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? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
StewieGriffin Posted May 27, 2009 Share Posted May 27, 2009 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. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattant250 Posted May 28, 2009 Author Share Posted May 28, 2009 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 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
peter_b Posted May 28, 2009 Share Posted May 28, 2009 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? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattant250 Posted May 28, 2009 Author Share Posted May 28, 2009 yeah thanks peter Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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