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- From: sschaem@teleport.com (Stephan Schaem)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: Re: Amiga Technology is insulting!!
- Date: 12 Apr 1996 06:04:40 GMT
- Organization: Teleport - Portland's Public Access (503) 220-1016
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- Nathanael J Henderson (nahender@prairie.NoDak.edu) wrote:
- : Stephan Schaem (sschaem@teleport.com) wrote:
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- : : Drag and drop editing?
-
- : Well, you're certainly familiar with selecting areas of text in
- : graphics and word processing programs. Extend the idea so that you can
- : physically drag around selections of text in the same way you can usually
- : drag and drop selections of a picture. NOW, imagine you can drag
- : selected stuff around not just in it's window, but between any windows of
- : programs that support that type of data. The Apple drag-n-drop editing
- : uses that basic model and extends it to all standard data types--text,
- : graphics, sound, QuickTime movies, even Quickdraw 3D models.
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- I dont use it, but I dont mind that its there... I usually turn off that
- feature when its available. For text editing I find it to be a nuisance.
- Also drag-drop require very well organize workspace ? I usually work in
- 'screen' mode, so I cant just drap and drop... And I'm more a keyboard
- user then mouse.
- But like I said I dont mind if its there (And if its there an option to
- turn it off for text editing)
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- Stephan
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