Re: global default for NSLayoutManager selection threshold?
Re: global default for NSLayoutManager selection threshold?
- Subject: Re: global default for NSLayoutManager selection threshold?
- From: Rainer Brockerhoff <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2001 01:17:31 -0300
At 02:34 +0100 10/7/01, Ondra Cada wrote:
>>>>>> Rainer Brockerhoff (RB) wrote at Sat, 6 Oct 2001 15:58:09 -0300:
RB> At any event, introducing _different_ semantics for Option at the
RB> start or at the end of a drag would confuse things, I'd say...
Why? It's perfectly understandable: when you are beginning the drag, the
modifier allows you to choose what will (or won't) be dragged. When you are
dropping, the (usually different) modifier allows you to choose what will (or
won't) happen.
It looks to me very very logical, and I can't see any confusion there.
>>>>>> Rainer Brockerhoff (RB) wrote at Sat, 6 Oct 2001 15:58:09 -0300:
RB> In previous Mac OS versions, if you held Option down _either_
RB> when starting the drag or when stopping, it would mean "copy".
That looks to me like an obvious bug, since it would not allow you to change
your mind during the drag.
Well, it's just a question of being accostumed - for many years - to
do things in a certain way; muscle memory, and all that sort of
thing. Millions of "Classic" Mac users are accostumed to hold option
down _before_ starting a drag, to mean "copy"; if this suddenly
should mean another thing, it would be a significant disruption in
working habits... I suppose just what you feel with the dragging
delay :-)
As to changing my mind during the drag, I (at least) never change my
mind while copying text, so this isn't a bug - a bug is when
something works differently from what it's supposed to do... I always
decide exactly what I want before starting the drag. Should I really
want to abort the drag, there are ways of doing that.
Now, I also must admit that I found this ability to decide later if
the drag will be a copy or a move useful for dragging things around
in the Finder (took me by surprise the first time!). But for text, I
don't need that.
--
Rainer Brockerhoff <email@hidden>
Belo Horizonte, Brazil
"Originality is the art of concealing your sources."
http://www.brockerhoff.net/ (updated Oct. 2001)