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- From: I.J.Grimstead@cm.cf.ac.uk (Ian 'the Grim' Grimstead)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
- Subject: Re: DragASprite / Modified filer.
- Message-ID: <1992Nov9.145812.5336@cm.cf.ac.uk>
- Date: 9 Nov 92 14:58:10 GMT
- References: <1992Nov6.214741.5081@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>
- Sender: news@cm.cf.ac.uk (Network News System)
- Organization: University of Wales College of Cardiff, Cardiff, WALES, UK.
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- In article <1992Nov6.214741.5081@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>, ahersee@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Andrew Hersee) writes:
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- |> Some of you may wonder why the filer and pinboard don't use DragASprite. Well
- |> drag a sprite is only designed to drag one sprite and when copying files
- |> by dragging things between filer windows you can drag more than one file.
- |> (Same on pinboard). This would require more than one sprite. Now what acorn
- |> could have done is allowed solid drag when dragging one file but think of the
- |> confusion when someone drags more than one file! Hence the sensible decision
- |> we see now.
- |>
- |> Ok it is possible to do. All you need to do is plot the multiple files you
- |> are going to drag in a sprite and then drag that larger sprite. (I may work
- |> on this if no one else succedes).
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- Wouldn't it be better to have a special icon representing a "stack" of files,
- i.e. a multiple drag. Methinks Open Windows' FileMgr uses this - much more
- satisfactory.
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- Any other offers ?
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- Ian
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