On Oct 23, 2007, at 5:53 AM, Alastair Houghton wrote:
Generally if nobody replies, it's because nobody knows or has
anything to say on the subject. However:
I completely understand. Thanks for helping me think this through.
I appreciate your support. BTW, is this site the official Apple fed
list?
Yes. Though all of the people reading the list, including the
moderators, are volunteers. Apple doesn't provide official support
via this list (that's what DTS is for).
Anyway, TextEdit 1.4(220) out of the box with OS 10.4.10 (8R218)
PPC does exhibit this behaviour on a drop from finder on my
machine. The TextEdit sample, built as either Development or
Deployment builds, exhibiting same versioning as released version,
do the same thing. Puzzling. Are you on Intel?
Ah, sorry, my fault. I didn't read carefully enough. You dropped a
folder, rather than just a single file. Mine works the same way, in
that case.
It does seem sensible to ask the question if someone drops a folder,
rather than a file; after all, there is a reasonable chance that they
really do want an alias (e.g. so that a document explaining how to do
something can have a clickable link to the Applications folder) and
folders could be rather large.
If you still want to disable it, you may be able to override some of
the methods from the NSDraggingDestination protocol to prevent its
display.
