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From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: De-macification of the Amiga (Re: The Amiga's Future)
Message-ID: <1991Jun17.123525.1485@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Organization: Sugar Land Unix -- Houston, TX
References: <1991Jun10.071908.8353@neon.Stanford.EDU> <1991Jun15.180607.10502@sugar.hackercorp.com> <1991Jun16.214309.18102@news.iastate.edu>
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1991 12:35:25 GMT

In article <1991Jun16.214309.18102@news.iastate.edu> taab5@isuvax.iastate.edu writes:
>    I don't really understand the value of "drag-and-drop".

It reduces the number of operations that are dependent on the reaction time
of the user. It also allows you to pass file names to an application more
easily than by opening the app then reading the file, or by going through the
shift-double-click mess that Commodore uses.

And it could be implemented on the Amiga without having to let any apps know
about it, simply by treating it as a shift-double-click launch.

> Amiga users
> often complain about how, on the MAC, you have to drag the disk icon to
> the trashcan in order to get your disk out of the drive.

You're mixing up an interface tool with the inappropriate use of a metaphor.
A properly implemented "drag and drop" interface here would have an "eject"
icon that you dropped the disk onto. Dropping it in the trash would instead
format the disk.

The Mac System 7 appears to have finally caught up with the 10 year old
Xerox Star here, and implemented drag-and-drop. There is some sort of gotcha
in the way it's implemented, apparently, based on Evan's description...
apparently you can only drop a file on the app that created it unless you
do something with ResEdit.
-- 
Peter da Silva.   `-_-'   <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>.
                   'U`    "Have you hugged your wolf today?"
