WindowFX and Window Flipping
Thursday, February 16, 2012 by Island Dog | Discussion: Personal Computing
This is one of my favorite features of WindowFX, although there are many cool features which are equally as cool. Many people think WindowFX is only about animating windows and the start menu on your Windows PC desktop. Sure, that’s a big part of it but there’s other things that are especially useful as well. Let's look at what you can do using your middle mouse button.
You can set WindowFX to enable a flip feature where when you press the middle mouse button the window will “flip” and show you process information, allow you to open the containing folder, etc.
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Reply #2 Tuesday, February 28, 2012 5:46 PM
Middle mouse button??? I haven't seen a 3 button mouse in years, why did you choose that trigger?
Reply #5 Tuesday, February 28, 2012 6:18 PM
Ok, thank you for enlightening me regarding the "middle" mouse button. However, I don't have the misc. animations menu choice. Is it Windows 7 only?
Reply #6 Tuesday, February 28, 2012 6:22 PM
Some of the animations are currently Windows 7 only.
Reply #7 Tuesday, February 28, 2012 6:40 PM
Do you need to enable anything to have the icon of the flipped application? I always see the place holder icon (default icon) of the icon packager theme, which is in use if the file/exe does not have a specific icon. I have already mentioned that in the beta thread, but got no feedback so far.
Reply #8 Wednesday, February 29, 2012 11:20 AM
Reply #9 Wednesday, February 29, 2012 12:23 PM
I run windowsblinds 7, CursorFX and Icon Packager. Okay,Rainmeter and CD Art Display too. I use win 7 64bit prof.
Even with the standard icons and gui theme, it still shows the default icon.
Reply #12 Wednesday, February 29, 2012 1:29 PM
Even with the standard icons and gui theme, it still shows the default icon.
It appears there is a bug in IconPackager that is breaking the ability to obtain the exe icons.
Right now the only fix is to uninstall IconPackager, but we will be looking into if we can fix the bug in an IP update.
Reply #14 Thursday, March 1, 2012 3:34 PM
There may be a way in the settings software to assign different things to the different buttons. There may be a way to set the wheel clicking to a 'middle button click', though it depends on the software, and I'm not familiar with Microsoft's.
Reply #16 Friday, March 2, 2012 3:20 PM
There are many setting to use. Don't know which setting to apply.
Reply #18 Wednesday, March 28, 2012 2:57 PM
I have a ms mouse 6000. Works like a charm. Just a question of the proper settings in intellipoint. Very cool feature btw! 
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Reply #1 Thursday, February 16, 2012 1:29 PM
Way cool. The program is one of my favorites from Stardock!