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From: esg@sodium.ATT.COM (Edward Gokhman)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re:  Drag & Drop
Message-ID: <2996@sodium.ATT.COM>
Date: 7 Feb 91 15:39:22 GMT
References: <9102061237.AA04715@ctc.contel.com>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Lincroft, NJ
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From article <9102061237.AA04715@ctc.contel.com>, by john@ctc.contel.COM (John Schettino  x4156):
> 
> 
> Or, watch someone use the Sun OpenWindows file manager tool, which does
> the same thing. Sun's mailtool for OpenWindows (and probably most other
> Sun OW tools) provide D&D for text editing also:
> 1) hilite the text to copy
> 2) click & hold left mouse button (first  7 letters shown in a little box)
> 3) DRAG to new position in text flow
> 4) DROP the copy into text flow by releasing the mouse button
> 
> The concept also comes under the heading of "direct manipulation"
> in human factors/CHI texts.
> 

Another interesting interpretation of D&D is Sun's implementation
of the File Manager, which allows you to start an application by
dragging and droping the icon onto the workspace part of the screen.
You can also load a file into application by dragging its icon from
the File Manager's window into the application's window or icon.
The current Sun's interpretation of D&D is incomplete, at least
as far as OW 2.0 is concerned. First, it allows D&D copying
only between two XView or two OLIT windows. Second, it still
waiting for a reasonable interpretation of D&D of an icon residing on a
remote server. A more "mature" implementation is in the works, as I
understand.