The new Flow View in Mac OS X Leopard provides detailed visual information about the files displayed within a Finder window, and naturally fits with Leopard’s new Quick Look feature that lets you scan many documents without having to open them in their original authoring applications.
If you’re looking for any easy quick way to change the view of a Finder window to Flow View and to expand its display area on screen to maximize its visual effectivness, the Browse Full Screen toolbar script makes switching to Flow View and displaying the window full screen, a single click in the Finder toolbar. And when you’re done purusing your files, a single click on the same script returns the window back to its original state.
I found Apple’s Browse Full Screen applet at macthemes forum. I had a look at it and thought it would be cool. So I downloaded and test it. But it seem to have a huge problem with my dual monitor setup. The app is written in Applescript so I thought I could add the missing support on my own. I added the icon made by mike from macthemes forum. With dual monitor the finder window should automatically use the screen with the higher resolution.
Download: Browse Full Screen (dual monitor support) Version 0.9
I could only test on my system so please comment if it is working for you.
INSTALLATION
To install the Browse Full Screen script, follow these simple steps: Download the utility, and place it in the Applications > AppleScript folder. Drag the script to the toolbar of any Finder window and hold in place until the cursor changes to include a plus-sign, then release the mouse. The icon of the script will now be added to the toolbar. To use this utility, click the script icon in the toolbar of the Finder window you want to zoom, and the window will be resized and the view mode changed to Flow View. In addition, the Dock will be hidden to maximize the window display area on the screen.
NOTE:
Do not close the window when it is displaying full-screen as those window measurements will become the default for the displayed folder. To return the window to its previous state, click the toolbar script icon again.