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From: rjc@wookumz.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Ray Cromwell)
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Subject: Re: De-macification of the Amiga (Re: The Amiga's Future)
Keywords: Future, Amiga, etc.
Message-ID: <1991Jun21.141210.19543@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
Date: 21 Jun 91 14:12:10 GMT
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In article <81@ryptyde.UUCP> dant@ryptyde.UUCP (Daniel Tracy) writes:
>Responding to the following:
>
>"I don't think the Mac's drag and drop allows you to drop an icon into
>an Application's window and have it load it."
>
>Since, on a Macintosh, a window represents a document, you wouldn't be
>opening the dragged file, but rather appending documents. The window is
>a document in itself, so why would this be wanted? It appears by the above
>that the Amiga uses a metaphor in which windows represent programs. How
>do you open more than one document at a time in a single application?

   Most Amiga programs allow you to have as many documents open as
you'd like. For the ones that don't, you just run multiple copies of
them.  If a program opens a window (let's take the example of
an icon editor) and I drop a icon in it, it should start editing that
icon. How do you append icons or pictures? For instance, if I had
a paint program open, I should be able to drag an icon of a picture into
it's window and have the program load this picture as the next frame in the
animation. (This is really moot since the vast majority of Amiga paint
programs open their own screens, not windows.)

   Dragging a document icon into an editor/word processor should
be the equivelent of pasting.

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