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Call me a bonehead if there was an announcement about this a couple
years ago, but does it seem like very few OSX apps support drag-n-drop?

I refer only to apps where text can be highlighted.
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On Wed, 9 Jul 2003 8:46:26 +1000, Johnny Appleseed wrote
(in message <8e30b0f308286cadc5b56c83efbaf569@free.teranews.com>):

Call me a bonehead if there was an announcement about this a couple
years ago, but does it seem like very few OSX apps support drag-n-drop?

I refer only to apps where text can be highlighted.

Drag-n-drop between & within applications is much more widespread
in OS X (10.2.x, at least) than in OS 9 & earlier. Or at least so a
short play on my machine here indicates. [2 apps didn't support it:
Acrobat Reader & the Finder; over a dozen did.]

Have Fun
Martin

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Johnny Appleseed <1234@567.890> wrote:

Call me a bonehead if there was an announcement about this a couple
years ago, but does it seem like very few OSX apps support drag-n-drop?

I refer only to apps where text can be highlighted.

After you highlight the text and click it with
the mouse, keep the mouse button down for a
second or two. Then start dragging - I think
you'll find plenty of d&d available.

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Johnny Appleseed <1234@567.890> wrote:

Call me a bonehead if there was an announcement about this a couple
years ago, but does it seem like very few OSX apps support drag-n-drop?

I refer only to apps where text can be highlighted.

To drag something in OS X, it is often necessary to click and hold on it
for a moment before starting to drag it. I suppose this is the price we
pay for the fact that OS X allows us to click on buttons, icons, and
such without selecting them or bringing their windows or applications to
the front. (For example, you can drag something in Finder's column view
without selecting it.)

Also, selected text can be dragged in many applications, such as
TextEdit, even when the pointer is an I-beam rather than an arrow.
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In article <1fxshzh.1j28un51tdgcowN%nmassello@earthlink.net>, Neill
Massello <nmassello@earthlink.net> wrote:

Also, selected text can be dragged in many applications, such as
TextEdit, even when the pointer is an I-beam rather than an arrow.

Whew. That I-beam business was driving me nuts.

Okay, so, click and hoooooooooooold! (Then drag.) ;-)
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Johnny Appleseed <1234@567.890> wrote:

Call me a bonehead if there was an announcement about this a couple
years ago, but does it seem like very few OSX apps support drag-n-drop?

I refer only to apps where text can be highlighted.

Drag and Drop works just fine in OS X - just like previous OS versions.
There have been a few issues with DnD and clipboard transfers between
Classic and OS X applications. Since I'm no longer using any Classic applications I don't know if that issue has been completely fixed or
not.
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In article <1fxshzh.1j28un51tdgcowN%nmassello@earthlink.net>,
nmassello@earthlink.net (Neill Massello) wrote:

To drag something in OS X, it is often necessary to click and hold on it
for a moment before starting to drag it. I suppose this is the price we
pay for the fact that OS X allows us to click on buttons, icons, and
such without selecting them or bringing their windows or applications to
the front.

No, this is mostly the price we pay for having two APIs without a solid
effort to get the working the same. Text is immediately draggable in a
Carbon app but has a delay in Cocoa apps. The delay makes more sense to
me, because I seldom drag text around and much more frequently want to
change a selection.

Contrast that behavior with dragging of document icons in a window title
bar. Carbon has a delay for that, which Cocoa begins the drag
immediately. I prefer the immediate drag, since there is really nothing
else I would be doing with the icon, and it annoys the hell out of me if
the *window* becomes the drag object because I didn't wait long enough.

So, on my score card, Carbon apps suck and Cocoa apps don't. Because of
that, I pretty much avoid most Carbon apps, especially if they're
nothing more than OS 9 apps that were hastily ported to OS X.
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