Fork from Stefan Sundin's AltDrag.
- Check the Wiki: https://github.com/RamonUnch/AltSnap/wiki
- Original documentation: https://stefansundin.github.io/altdrag/doc/
Note that the documentation is not 100% accurate because it is a fork. Read the changelog for more details.
It allows you to move and resize windows by using the Alt key and clicking wherever on the window instead of relying on very precise clicking. This behavior is very common on Linux distributions and is not actually hard to implement on Windows.
This fork tries to keep a version up to date with minimal amount of bugs while keeping it feature-rich.
It is oriented towards all Windows users from Windows NT 4 to Windows 11, even though it is mostly tested on Windows XP and Windows 10.
- To simplify the code greatly the Hooks Windows feature was removed, it allowed you have windows snapping while dragging them normally. It required however to inject a dll in every application and induced thus an obvious security risk. The amount of mess added to the code just for this feature was substantial and in addition forced to have both a 32bits and a 64bits version of the program running at the same time.
- This version injects nothing into other applications. This means you do not have to worry whether you have a 32 or a 64bit operating system.
- Another feature that was disabled is focus on typing, that was too much unusable for me to even start testing, so I removed it.
- Much simpler source code and added a few extra options including transparent windows dragging,
Maximizeaction, pause process options, more blacklists for finer control of AltSnap, etc. - Fixed undesired behavior and bugs from the original
AltDrag.
Many new features can be seen in the option dialog box, however some of them are only available through editing the AltSnap.ini file (middle click on the tray icon for this).
You will see with the latest builds that there are some alerts, usually from SecureAge APEX sometime also from another vendor. Those are false positive and I stopped to contact the APEX team for every release because it is a loss of time I would rather spend on improving the program.
I already reduced a lot the number of false positive, simply by changing build flags and by switching to an older version of NSIS installer system. This is an indication of the impertinence of some modern antivirus solutions. Chocolatey considers that up to 5 positives on VirusTotal is not even suspicious.
AltSnap builds with GCC and is tested with mingw-w64 for i686 builds.
Install the latest version (e.g., TDM-gcc 10.3 which is based on MinGW64) and use one of the following commands to build.
Be sure to adjust your include and lib directories on the command line with -IPath\to\mingw\include and -LPath\to\mingw\lib.
For i386 Win32 GCC build.
makeFor i386 GCC debug build.
make -fMakefileDebugFor x86_64 GCC build.
make -fMakefileX64For x86_64 GCC debug build.
make -fMakefileX64DebugFor i386 build using LLVM Clang. We recommend using the LLVM5.0.1 with the headers and libs from mingw-w64.
make -fMakefileClangFor i386 build using tcc, Bellard's Tiny C Compiler.
make -fMakefileTCC