Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!uunet!mcsun!cernvax!chx400!unizh!amiga!matija From: matija@amiga.ifi.unizh.ch (Matija Milostnik) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: De-macification of the Amiga (Re: The Amiga's Future) Summary: Drag-and-drop lets you chose 'your way' of starting an appliction Keywords: Drag-and-drop, application start, mac's eject icon Message-ID: <1991Jun18.165401.26383@ifi.unizh.ch> Date: 18 Jun 91 16:54:01 GMT References: <1991Jun15.180607.10502@sugar.hackercorp.com> <1991Jun16.214309.18102@news.iastate.edu> <1991Jun17.123525.1485@sugar.hackercorp.com> Sender: root@ifi.unizh.ch (System PRIVILEGED Account) Organization: Informatik Club der Universitaet Zuerich (Amiga group) Lines: 38 In article <1991Jun17.123525.1485@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes: >In article <1991Jun16.214309.18102@news.iastate.edu> taab5@isuvax.iastate.edu writes: >And it could be implemented on the Amiga without having to let any apps know >about it, simply by treating it as a shift-double-click launch. So you dont have to change a line of your code, its all a matter of WB and intuition. Figure this out: somebody calls the filerequester of the asl.libray. For the application this is a black box, and you get a string in response of this call. Now it is up to you if you -typed you filename in the string gadget -clicked you trough the directory, untill you found your file -or dropped you icon on the file requester window >> Amiga users >> often complain about how, on the MAC, you have to drag the disk icon to >> the trashcan in order to get your disk out of the drive. > >You're mixing up an interface tool with the inappropriate use of a metaphor. >A properly implemented "drag and drop" interface here would have an "eject" >icon that you dropped the disk onto. Dropping it in the trash would instead >format the disk. The 'eject' icon is really missing on a mac. It was always unclear why you have to trash your disk and could not find it, the next day:-) >apparently you can only drop a file on the app that created it unless you >do something with ResEdit. It is useless to drop a document on a database or a soundfile on a comunication program, so this limitaion is not a bug but a feature. >Peter da Silva. `-_-' . +-------------------------------------------------------+ | Q: What's the best way to catch a rabbit? | | A: Hide into a bush and mimic the voice of a carrot. | +-------------------------------------------------------+