Chris

Basically, all my tool does is asks iTunes every 100ms if it has gone into “full screen” mode. When iTunes says “yes, I am” then my tool attempts to make iTunes be in the “non fullscreen mode” then tells the mini player to show up.

So my tool asks “iTunes, are you zoomed?” (zoomed is the technical term for the “fullscreen mode.” iTunes will respond with “yes” if you click the green button. Then my tool attempts to say “iTunes, you should not be zoomed anymore” but iTunes doesn’t respond to this command (But it WILL respond to “iTunes, you should zoom now” oddly enough).

The behavior you described in Leopard happens in Snow Leopard as well. Like I said, the solution isn’t very elegant . But it does work, you just have to get your “fullscreen mode” to a manageable size. I would try quitting my tool, then make iTunes go into “full screen” mode and resize the window that way. Then start my tool back up and maybe it won’t be so bad.

So I wouldn’t upgrade to Snow Leopard just for my tool, it sounds like it works on your system as it does on mine. You should upgrade when you are ready to do so.

But if you do think you’re ready, make sure you update iStat Menus to version 2.0. iStatMenus only works on Snow Leopard if it is version 2.0 or higher.

Hope this helps and I apologize my tool doesn’t work exactly as I wanted it to. I spent about eight hours testing and making this tool work as is and I think it works well enough. Hopefully Apple will fix the problem in the next version of iTunes and we won’t have to worry about this thing.

Brad

I don’t program at all, so the source code doesn’t really help me. Here’s my experience with the patch you wrote.

It kinda works in Leopard. When iTunes is in the non-mini player window and you click the green button, it doesn’t go directly to the mini player window. First, it momentarily moves the window to the “full screen” view, then pops into the mini player. It happens quickly, taking less than a second to get to the mini-player, but you can see it go from the regular window to “full-screen” to the mini-player.

When it’s in mini player, if you click on the green button, instead of going to the normal window, it pops to the “full-screen” position. I have the “full-screen” in quotes, because it doesn’t really fill the screen, it makes the window large enough to almost fill the screen, but leaves a border of about an inch on each side of the window. I tried resizing the window to the upper right hand corner and the size I want, but when I hit the green button, it still does the same thing: it jumps to the “full-screen” window, then immediately to the mini player. Again, when I click the green button in the mini player, it pops to “full screen” position again.

I also noticed that iTunes is hogging my CPU (thanks to iStatMenu). I quit iTunes, but the CPU hogging was still going on, this time by something called “syslogd” and then I noticed that iTunes and iTunes mini are still showing up in the iStatMenu list of programs using the CPU, several minutes after I quit (cmd-q) iTunes!

Looks like I’ll have to re-install either iTunes 8 or 9. Let me know your thoughts. I’ve been putting off getting Snow Leopard, but now maybe this will be my motivation.

Thanks for your efforts, though! Let me know your thought if you have time.

Bill