Re: D&D warning alert w/Finder folder drop
Re: D&D warning alert w/Finder folder drop
- Subject: Re: D&D warning alert w/Finder folder drop
- From: Chris Heimark <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 08:45:41 -0400
On Oct 23, 2007, at 8:25 AM, Alastair Houghton wrote:
Anyway, TextEdit 1.4(220) out of the box with OS 10.4.10 (8R218)
PPC does exhibit this behaviour on a drop from finder on my
machine. The TextEdit sample, built as either Development or
Deployment builds, exhibiting same versioning as released version,
do the same thing. Puzzling. Are you on Intel?
Ah, sorry, my fault. I didn't read carefully enough. You dropped
a folder, rather than just a single file. Mine works the same way,
in that case.
Whewh ...I'm not the only one ... I thought insanity may have caught
up with me ;-)
It does seem sensible to ask the question if someone drops a
folder, rather than a file; after all, there is a reasonable chance
that they really do want an alias (e.g. so that a document
explaining how to do something can have a clickable link to the
Applications folder) and folders could be rather large.
If the finder window being dragged from happens to obscure where the
dialog will show upon drop, the dialog locks the refresh of the
screen and the + sign drag cursor mysteriously remains ... until the
user figures out they have to click on the receiving window ... which
is then followed by a dialog based "don't click there beep" ...
decidedly unfriendly and un-Apple like ;-)
This is OK - I'll just have to explain this possible behaviour to my
user base.
If you still want to disable it, you may be able to override some
of the methods from the NSDraggingDestination protocol to prevent
its display.
I'll explore this as a possible way out of this particular "dialog
nightmare"...
Thanks for your help!
Chris
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