Re: Droplet Misbehaviour
Re: Droplet Misbehaviour
- Subject: Re: Droplet Misbehaviour
- From: John W Baxter <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 19:07:46 -0800
At 2:26 +0000 1/6/01, Mr Tea wrote:
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Here's an odd thing.
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I'm using an applet that tidies away stuff dropped onto it. When a locked
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file is among the detritus, I get that pesky dialog warning me that I won't
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be able to save any changes & asking do I want to open the document anyway.
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Excuse me? (This dialog is irritating enough when you actually want to open
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the file. Any suggestions as to how I can rid myself of it forever warmly
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received.)
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If I click cancel, the droplet quits, if I click OK, the droplet runs as
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expected but the locked file does not open... er... pff.
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Is there something about the 'on open' thing in droplets that makes a file
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think it's being opened when it's simply being moved? Is this a widely known
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bug? Is there a work-around?
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I agree that the dialog is annoying (one of my droplets toggles the state
of the lock...generally I *know* when I'm dropping a locked file onto that
to unlock it.
But I've never seen that script skip any files.
--John
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John Baxter email@hidden Port Ludlow, WA, USA