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Re: Mac OS X 10.1 File Name Extension Guidelines
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Re: Mac OS X 10.1 File Name Extension Guidelines


  • Subject: Re: Mac OS X 10.1 File Name Extension Guidelines
  • From: Paul Bayley <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2001 15:34:00 -0700

At 8:16 PM +0200 9/8/01, Manfred Schubert wrote:
>Am Samstag, 8. September 2001 um 18:14 schrieb Ondra Cada:
>
>>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.
>
>Are you serious, man? 99% of the time when I make a text selection it is to drag (or copy) it and not to create another one starting from the middle of the old one just for fun. In the 1% of error the Carbon behavior prevents me from *nothing*, I just click once to remove the selection.
>The Cocoa behavior is a real pain in the lower back. Text and proxy icon drag (where 99% of the time I want to drag the window and not the proxy icon). They got it the wrong way around.
>

Not only does one click remove the selection, if it's implemented correctly one click also moves the text cursor where you clicked.

BBEdit and SimpleText implemnt drag+drop text in the most ideal manner.


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