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From: jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: De-macification of the Amiga (Re: The Amiga's Future)
Message-ID: <4576.tnews@templar.actrix.gen.nz>
Date: 20 Jun 91 06:56:54 GMT
References: <1991Jun15.180607.10502@sugar.hackercorp.com> 
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Organization: TAP, NZAmigaUG.
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Quoted from <1991Jun19.154113.28723@news.iastate.edu> by taab5@isuvax.iastate.edu (Marc Barrett):
>    Drag-and-drop does sound interesting, but it ocurred to me that, in 
> order for drag-and-drop to work well on an Amiga, one additional feature

    The Ami already does something similar to the motions of this drag
    and drop, with the shift-click scheme (that has the additional
    advantage of allowing more than one argument file).

> large as half of the screen.  Icons this large can play havoc with a
> feature like drag-and-drop, because when the user drags an unusually large 

    Rubbish. If you can point and click these icons with the mouse,
    you can drop other icons on them. The "hot spot" of the icon when
    you release it over other icons could be the same as that of the
    mouse.

>    To solve this problem, one additional selection needs to be added to
> the "Show By" options in the Workbench 2.0 menus.  The new option could

    Real fun when using floppies, to be switching from real .info files
    to something else then back again, eh?

> moment.  Anyway, the problem of large icons is serious enough to make
> drag-and-drop useless in many, many circumstances, and this added 

    It is useless in many many points of view, no matter what the size
    of the icons. What might be nice is a way to do the shift-double-
    click thing entirely with the mouse, rather than having to go to
    the keyboard.

> \        The great thing about standards is that          /
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