Re: Mac OS X 10.1 File Name Extension Guidelines
Re: Mac OS X 10.1 File Name Extension Guidelines
- Subject: Re: Mac OS X 10.1 File Name Extension Guidelines
- From: David Remahl <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2001 20:11:06 +0200
Finlay Dobbie (FD) wrote at Sat, 8 Sep 2001 14:06:35 +0100:
FD> You can. You just need a slight delay before dragging, otherwise it
FD> starts selecting. This is just how the Cocoa text system behaves
(it's
FD> different from the Carbon text services you're probably used to).
This
FD> is probably a bug, though... Is the Cocoa or the Carbon
functionality
FD> correct?
Cocoa, naturally. If for no other reason, then since it was designed so
by
Apple programmers during the join: OpenStep/NeXTStep never had text d&d.
Should there be no delay, it would prevent selecting text by dragging
starting inside previous selection, that's why. I would like to see a
system-wide default for setting the delay though: I would set it to
minute or
more, whilst those who are used to the old Mac way could set it to zero.
Most everyone classifies the cocoa way as the bug. My guess, is that
former NeXT employees were set to implement Cocoa drag-and-drop, but
like you they did not like it, and therefore put a brief delay in. The
proxy-icon dragging is wonderful in cocoa IMHO, but text dragging sucks
compared to the classic/carbon way. I see that there are two possible
intentions one could have, when starting a drag. Some styles want to
create a new selection, while others want to drag the text. There was a
time, back when drag-and-drop was implemented in Mac OS, when mac people
had to relearn their style, and do a fast click before dragging if they
wanted to create a new selection inside selected text.
/ david