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From: sw@nan.co.uk (Sak Wathanasin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: User definable objects in Finder 7.0
Message-ID: <0101000D.0vxryg@nan.co.uk>
Date: 8 May 91 19:41:23 GMT
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In article <1991May7.170534.14871@potomac.ads.com>, jtn@potomac.ads.com (John T. Nelson) writes:

> >Creating new active objects on the desktop is a feature I'd really be
> >interested in.  For example I want to be able to drop a document into
> >a printer icon and have it come out the right printer.  Much easier
> >than using the Chooser to pick the printer.  If I've heard correctly,
> >it was done on the old Xerox systems...
> 
> Yup, but as I remember you had to make a COPY of the document you
> dropped into the printer otherwise the printer would gobble the
> document up while printing it.  Probably bit quite a few unsuspecting
> users.
> 

You can't just drag an icon around in Viewpoint. You have to either
"move" or "copy" first (select icon by clicking on it then hit either
the "move" or "copy" function key). The metaphor was used for other
things as well. For example, you could drop configuration icons into
terminal emulators (to make them start up with a saved config) as well
as the more obvious "drop things into the mail outbasket icon" to post
them.


Sak Wathanasin
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