Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!nerm From: nerm@Apple.COM (Dean Yu) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: What System 7 Does For You: A summary. Message-ID: <52846@apple.Apple.COM> Date: 14 May 91 05:46:34 GMT References: <9396@idunno.Princeton.EDU> <1991May11.233253.8853@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA Lines: 23 In article <1991May11.233253.8853@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> scasterg@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Stuart M Castergine) writes: >> >>If you try to drag a file near the edge of a window, it will scroll >>horizontally, vertically, or diagonally to keep up -- no more having >>to move a file out to the desktop, scroll the window, then put the >>file back in just to drop it into a folder that was scrolled out of >>sight originally! >> > >I just thought of something: If the window autoscrolls when you drag >an icon near its edge, how _do_ you drag an icon onto the desktop? > >-- The area around a window which activates autoscrolling is fairly small, and you have to keep the icon there for a certain amount of time before the autoscrolling kicks in. If you just drag at a normal pace, the window you're dragging out of won't scroll before you're done moving the icon. -- Dean Yu Blue Meanie, Negative Ethnic Role Model, etc. Apple Computer, Inc. My opinions and so on and so forth...