I’d like Scrivener to have full screen like Firefox 3.6.3 has (try command-shift-f in FF sometime); it has been a long time coming in Firefox, but it is very useful.
The idea is to have all of Scrivener be in full screen, not just text editing, so as to remove as many distractions as possible.
This has been broached before a few times in the past. I didn’t know about the new Firefox trick, thanks for bringing that up. I’m not sure if I’ll ever use it because browsing is hardly ever a single-track thing for me, but it’s a much better solution that the old method which just maximised the browser. I like a narrower browser width to keep line-length down in the arena of readability, and this mode honours that.
Back to topic: There are some things you could try. A while back we all played with an application called Think, which does what you want to any application. It just puts a black screen behind the program and hides the dock and menu. You might try looking Think up, if it still works.
The other option is just Cmd-Opt-H, another thing practically every application on a Mac uses, which hides everything except for the current application. It doesn’t hide the dock and menu, but you’ll just get Scrivener and your desktop background. Of course, there is also maximising the window, too.
Another ‘blanking’ alternative that works fine for me is Isolator (isolator.en.softonic.com/mac). It’s donationware, it blanks out everything except the active app, you can instantiate it with a configurable keyboard shortcut (or click a menu bar icon) and you can set exactly the colour you want. Recommended.
Best,
Joachim
Another alternative, which does what Jeff wants, and much more, is SizeUp. Excellent application, recommended!
Thanks, people!
I have tried (& sometimes use) some of those solutions.
What I like about the full screen in Firefox is that while in Google Docs (for example) I get a really good feeling about it. I understand that if you have say a 27" monitor, full screen would probably be pointless or worse, but on my 15" MBP it is just right.
Scrivener is an environment unto itself, and a very good one, I just like the idea of “locking” myself into it at times.
I think the OS must have added some kind of system call for full screen because firefox finally delivered… Opera has it too… I’m too lazy (apparently) to try it in Safari… might be there.