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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: <4742.tnews@templar.actrix.gen.nz>
Date: 24 Jun 91 08:05:57 GMT
References: <1991Jun17.123525.1485@sugar.hackercorp.com><1991Jun18.165401.26383@ifi.unizh.ch> <1991Jun19.154113.28723@news.iastate.edu> <1991Jun19.224736.15828@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <13824@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>     <4618.tnews@templar.actrix.gen.nz> <1991Jun23.201625.
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Quoted from <1991Jun23.201625.18225@news.iastate.edu> by taab5@isuvax.iastate.edu (Marc Barrett):
>    This does not happen on an Amiga.  When you drag an icon, the actual
> image of the icon is dragged, and not an outline.  This is why the idea of
> using the mouse pointer as the "hot spot" makes absolutely no sense at

    It makes perfect sense. I don't need to see the exact position of my
    hands when I scratch my back. Understand?

>    Unless much more of the MAC's user interface is implemented, drag-and-
> drop simply will not work on an Amiga.  

    As far as starting an application goes, you are lying. Consider the
    following:

    Use an input handler to track mouse drags in the Workbench window,
    and do the appropriate things when the mouse button is released. It
    would take a bit of fiddling to get working, but it is eminently
    feasible.

>  / Marc Barrett  -MB- | BITNET:   XGR39@ISUVAX.BITNET        /   
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