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What exactly does the little green "+" button do in Mac OS X?

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Mar 15, 202618052 views
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OK, I must admit that I am from the Windows world and started using Leopard not for long. One really annoying thing when using my shiny new OS is that I can't predict what exact behavior it brings when I hit that little green "+" button on any open window. Some people told me it's "Maximize"... som…

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It's called the "Zoom Button". Defined by Apple as: A control that toggles a window between its standard state and its user state. From here. What I take that as is basically that it's "Standard state" is the window size that the programmer hardcode…

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