Do you love TextEdit for its simplicity and elegance? Have you ever thought that it’d be great to use it in full screen mode? Here’s how to achieve that. Apple has released TextEdit’s source code as an example of an Xcode project; with Xcode installed, you’ll be able to manufacture a version of TextEdit with full screen support.

Open TextEdit.xcodeproj and on the left, find the Interfaces folder and select the file DocumentWindow. Then, select the window; make sure you select the window itself and not one of the objects contained in it. On the right, you can see the different inspectors Xcode provides. You’ll want to select the fourth, the Attributes inspector. There are a lot of changeable attributes of the window available, but what we’re interested in is the full screen support. Change that to “Primary Window”. Build and run the application. Presto, you have full screen support!

To get the finished, executable application, locate “TextEdit.app” in the f …

Source: Mac OSX Hints