macOS reopen main application window

[goin]

Hi guys, again I have a little question for you and I am sure it's not a hard one but for newbie like me ;-)
While my app is running I close my main window (of course the application hasn't been quit yet) and I want to reopen the window through a shortcut. Which would be the best way to do that? I already made a new menu entry but now I somehow have to connect all that (and the best thing would be that all the information in the fields still exists when reopening)....

Thanks for listening, Ingo

 

[Eidorian]

I realize this is a programming question now.

 

[DarkHeraldMage]

It usually depends on the application.

Command + N and Command + 1 or some derivation of those appear to be the most popular.

Is this the same thing for restoring a minimized window? My first Mac is currently being shipped, and this is one of the things that's always eluded me when playing with Macs in a retailer store. In Windows you can Alt + Tab and select the program/window and it'll restore it back to it's original size, but even though you can Command + Tab in OSX, when you select a minimized app it doesn't restore it. I'm so confused. Help please? Thanks!

 

[Eidorian]

Is this the same thing for restoring a minimized window? My first Mac is currently being shipped, and this is one of the things that's always eluded me when playing with Macs in a retailer store. In Windows you can Alt + Tab and select the program/window and it'll restore it back to it's original size, but even though you can Command + Tab in OSX, when you select a minimized app it doesn't restore it. I'm so confused. Help please? Thanks!

I'm not fond the behavior of minimized applications. I never minimize my applications. I hide them.

 

[DarkHeraldMage]

I'm not fond the behavior of minimized applications. I never minimize my applications. I hide them.

What's the difference? Again, I apologize for my ignorance, but the "switch" is coming, and I'm trying to prepare. I'm a power user in Windows and will be hard-pressed to replicate most of my shortcuts. Just trying to figure out what I can still do and how. lol

 

[Eraserhead]

What's the difference? Again, I apologize for my ignorance, but the "switch" is coming, and I'm trying to prepare. I'm a power user in Windows and will be hard-pressed to replicate most of my shortcuts. Just trying to figure out what I can still do and how. lol

Hiding just makes them disappear. Minimising reduces them to the dock.

 

[Eidorian]

What's the difference? Again, I apologize for my ignorance, but the "switch" is coming, and I'm trying to prepare. I'm a power user in Windows and will be hard-pressed to replicate most of my shortcuts. Just trying to figure out what I can still do and how. lol

Command + H hides an application and all its windows. Command + ` switches between the windows of an application.

You should try Option + Tab when you have a lot of applications in Exposé as well.

 

[Eraserhead]

You should try Option + Tab when you have a lot of applications in Exposé as well.

Actually its just tab.

 

[DarkHeraldMage]

Command + H hides an application and all its windows. Command + ` switches between the windows of an application.

You should try Option + Tab when you have a lot of applications in Exposé as well.

Thanks so much for the info!

 

[Eidorian]

Actually its just tab.

So it is.