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Re: Drag and drop


  • Subject: Re: Drag and drop
  • From: Dan Messing <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 10:40:11 -0600

This might be getting kind of off-topic, but I just wanted to note that the cursor changes from an I-beam to an arrow when the elapsed fraction of a second has passed to give you a visual indication of when you're able to drag text. I find that indication makes it easy to drag text when I want, and not end up with accidental drags when I'm just trying to select. I suppose it's all a matter of personal preference and what you get use to though.

As for dragging in the project file list, for me there's no delay, so I'm not sure what's going on there.

Dan Messing
http://www.stuntsoftware.com/


On 17 Nov 2005, at 08:52, Cameron Hayne wrote:

On 17-Nov-05, at 3:11 AM, Ed Gronenschild wrote:

I just made the transition from Codewarrior to XCode 2.2 and the
first
thing I noticed was that the Editor is not capable of performing
drag and drop. Is this indeed not possible or do I need to set
a flag somewhere?


Ii suspect that perhaps what you are encountering is the difference in the way that text-dragging works between Carbon and Cocoa. In a Cocoa app (e.g. XCode), to drag a few words of text: you select them, then release the mouse button, click on the selected text and keep the mouse still for a fraction of a second, and then you drag. It is the fraction of a second keeping the mouse still that you are missing.

Is there any way to change this behaviour? I prefer the CodeWarrior method - I get loads of failed drags in XCode because the delay seems to be quite variable.

Also, when dragging in the project file list you may have to hold the
mouse button down for several seconds before dragging starts. This is
really frustrating when you're trying to drag groups of files into
build phases.

Jerry

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