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- From: mcg@waikato.ac.nz
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
- Subject: Re: DragASprite / Modified filer.
- Message-ID: <1992Nov11.152957.12097@waikato.ac.nz>
- Date: 11 Nov 92 15:29:57 +1300
- References: <1992Nov6.214741.5081@dcs.warwick.ac.uk> <1992Nov9.145812.5336@cm.cf.ac.uk>
- Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
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- In article <1992Nov9.145812.5336@cm.cf.ac.uk>, I.J.Grimstead@cm.cf.ac.uk (Ian 'the Grim' Grimstead) writes:
- > In article <1992Nov6.214741.5081@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>, ahersee@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Andrew Hersee) writes:
- >
- > ... stuff deleted ...
- >
- > |> 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).
- >
- > 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.
- >
- > Any other offers ?
-
- Hmm, yeah try and get away from the Mac style block outline drag by having
- a specific icon for multiple file dragging.
-
- A suggestion for the sequence of multiple selection dragging could be:
- i) user selects folders.
- ii) when dragging is initiated the following occurs:
- 1) "Morphing" the border outline down to a single icon.
- 2) drag icon.
-
-
- iii) when dropped into a window of pinboard
- 3) "Expansion" of single icon (via perspective "openwindow style"
- projection) to border outline
- 4) Outline -> multiple icons.
-
-
- An idea for the drag icon is a stack of folders (sheets of paper) tied with a
- nice bow at the top......
-
-
- From Martin Glanvill (mcg@waikato.ac.nz)
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