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From: torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie)
Subject: Re: De-macification of the Amiga (Re: The Amiga's Future)
Message-ID: <1991Jun23.173533.8864@neon.Stanford.EDU>
Sender: torrie@neon.Stanford.EDU (Evan James Torrie)
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University, Ca , USA
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Date: Sun, 23 Jun 1991 17:35:33 GMT
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taab5@isuvax.iastate.edu (Marc Barrett) writes:

>In article <1991Jun23.044133.23463@neon.Stanford.EDU>, torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie) writes:
>>jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers) writes:
>>
>>>    Workbench already has a drag and drop like operation, for copying
>>>    files (ie: drag an icon over a disk icon, and it gets copied, etc).
>>
>>  Does the disk icon auto-highlight?

>   No it doesn't, and this is a very big beef I have with Workbench 2.0.  

  I can see why...  I wonder how many HI people Commodore has?

>>  Always go for where the mouse pointer is pointing.  The 'hot spot' is 
>>where the action happens.

>   This is not intuitive.  It is also confusing, because hwo can the user
>see which icon the mouse pointer is currently 'over' if the icon being 
>dragged is covering up a bunch of the screen?  

  Well, on the Mac, the icon is dragged as a gray outline of the icon
shape.  So, the icon is transparent, and you can see exactly where the
mouse pointer is pointing. [i.e. you can see through behind the icon
that you're dragging].

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