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From: diamond@jit345.swstokyo.dec.com (Norman Diamond)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next,comp.object,comp.lang.objective-c
Subject: Re: Capturing mouse actions
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Date: 3 Apr 91 00:46:20 GMT
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In article <0094684B.EDD0D820@uno.edu> jrscs@uno.edu writes:

>   Does anyone know how I can capture the mouse's selecting a text area
>by highlighting?

Why have we seen several postings on such topics recently in _comp.object_?
I don't think mouse actions have been considered relevant to the design of
object-oriented languages other than Smalltalk (and that one was because of
confusion between the language and the user interface).
--
Norman Diamond       diamond@tkov50.enet.dec.com
If this were the company's opinion, I wouldn't be allowed to post it.