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From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: De-macification of the Amiga (Re: The Amiga's Future)
Keywords: Drag-and-drop, application start, mac's eject icon
Message-ID: <1991Jun19.001332.23587@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Date: 19 Jun 91 00:13:32 GMT
References: <1991Jun16.214309.18102@news.iastate.edu> <1991Jun17.123525.1485@sugar.hackercorp.com> <1991Jun18.165401.26383@ifi.unizh.ch>
Organization: Sugar Land Unix -- Houston, TX
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In article <1991Jun18.165401.26383@ifi.unizh.ch> matija@amiga.ifi.unizh.ch (Matija Milostnik) writes:
>   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

No good. You have to launch the application *first*. A drag and drop interface
would kick off a tool if you dragged a project icon onto the tool icon and 
dropped it there.
-- 
Peter da Silva.   `-_-'   <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>.
                   'U`    "Have you hugged your wolf today?"