Re: global default for NSLayoutManager selection threshold?
Re: global default for NSLayoutManager selection threshold?
- Subject: Re: global default for NSLayoutManager selection threshold?
- From: James DiPalma <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2001 21:42:31 -0700
On Sunday, October 7, 2001, at 03:53 AM, Ondra Cada wrote:
Since Apple don't care much for power users though, I bet this would
never
occur :((((
Apple does care about its Apple customers and many of these customers
use power features like the text dragging feature discussed here. I
consider text dragging to be a power feature that novices can/will find
confusing: identical gestures sometimes selecting text, sometimes
dragging text.
Neither me, but I guess it should be consistent with the file (or other
object) d&d.
Yes, yes.
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.
And YES. Finding this feature many years ago did not take me by
surprise, it just seemed to be intuitive. But, MacOS didn't always have
the little cursor changes (a "+" in X, green copy squares in NeXTStep)
that make a modifier's influence on a finder drag obvious.
In System 7.5 (and later?); users had to remember that the option key
did a copy because no cursor change indicated a copy. Wow, that helps to
explain why millions of users would get confused by what I consider to
be intuitive behavior.
-jim