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From: taab5@isuvax.iastate.edu (Marc Barrett)
Subject: Re: De-macification of the Amiga (Re: The Amiga's Future)
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Date: Sun, 23 Jun 1991 20:16:25 GMT
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In article <1991Jun23.173533.8864@neon.Stanford.EDU>, torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie) writes:
>taab5@isuvax.iastate.edu (Marc Barrett) writes:
>
>>In article <1991Jun23.044133.23463@neon.Stanford.EDU>, torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie) writes:
>>>jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers) writes:
>>>
>>>>    Workbench already has a drag and drop like operation, for copying
>>>>    files (ie: drag an icon over a disk icon, and it gets copied, etc).
>>>
>>>  Does the disk icon auto-highlight?
>
>>   No it doesn't, and this is a very big beef I have with Workbench 2.0.  
>
>  I can see why...  I wonder how many HI people Commodore has?
>
>>>  Always go for where the mouse pointer is pointing.  The 'hot spot' is 
>>>where the action happens.
>
>>   This is not intuitive.  It is also confusing, because hwo can the user
>>see which icon the mouse pointer is currently 'over' if the icon being 
>>dragged is covering up a bunch of the screen?  
>
>  Well, on the Mac, the icon is dragged as a gray outline of the icon
>shape.  So, the icon is transparent, and you can see exactly where the
>mouse pointer is pointing. [i.e. you can see through behind the icon
>that you're dragging].

   This does not happen on an Amiga.  When you drag an icon, the actual
image of the icon is dragged, and not an outline.  This is why the idea of
using the mouse pointer as the "hot spot" makes absolutely no sense at
all.  

   Unless much more of the MAC's user interface is implemented, drag-and-
drop simply will not work on an Amiga.  

>
>-- 
>------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Evan Torrie.  Stanford University, Class of 199?       torrie@cs.stanford.edu   
>"If it weren't for your gumboots, where would you be?   You'd be in the
>hospital, or in-firm-ary..."  F. Dagg

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