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clipka <ano### [at] anonymous org> wrote:
> Darren New schrieb:
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> > I saw a demo of a drag-and-drop idea I've been lusting after ever since.
> >
> > If you pick something up to drag-and-drop it, then move diagonally over
> > the >
> That'd be cool, indeed.
That's actually quite easy in Windows:
Drag whatever you want to drag onto the target app's taskbar button and that app
will get focus and then drop it in there.
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Aydan wrote:
> Drag whatever you want to drag onto the target app's taskbar button and that app
> will get focus and then drop it in there.
Oh my. I'll have to try that next time. A new trick. :-)
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
Is God willing to prevent phrogams, but not able?
Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing, to prevent phrogams?
Then he is malevolent.
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Bill Pragnell wrote:
> Windows does have a system clipboard - something that RISCOS lacked. Then again,
> it didn't really need it, given the behaviour I described - you could save any
> selection in most apps so I guess the question never arose.
It sounds more like "RISCOS presented a drag-and-drop UI for the clipboard." :-)
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
Is God willing to prevent phrogams, but not able?
Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing, to prevent phrogams?
Then he is malevolent.
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Invisible wrote:
> What can I say? Word sucks. :-)
Actually, metafile is standard on Windows and is pretty much the same thing
as "PICT" format on Macs. It's a list of the graphics operations/calls it
takes to produce something, so it's basically postscript-like - a list of
resolution-independent instructions. Without being a full-blown language.
You can get a metafile out of any program by printing. That's what the "save
to file" on the print dialog means.
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
Is God willing to prevent phrogams, but not able?
Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing, to prevent phrogams?
Then he is malevolent.
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Bill Pragnell wrote:
> I sympathise - Word definitely used to suck a lot, but it is much better.
> However, its inability to handle vector graphics puts it firmly next to the
> typewriter for me.
Word has handled vector graphics since OLE days. You're doing it wrong. :-)
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
Is God willing to prevent phrogams, but not able?
Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing, to prevent phrogams?
Then he is malevolent.
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Neeum Zawan wrote:
> When I minimize, I get a nice mini-screenshot of the window at the
> bottom of the screen.
We call that a task bar, here. ;-)
> Why do people have icons on their desktop?
I only have stuff I'm working on. It bugs me to no end that I'll download
something and it'll get put in some obscure "downloads" directory. No, I'd
like to work on it. I have icons on my desktop just like I have papers and
pens and coffee mugs on my desktop.
I don't put *programs* on my desktop, like so many others do.
If you want really quick access, that's what the "quick start" bar is for.
And honestly I only ever use that at work where it's the same 4 programs I'm
using to do my job over and over.
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
Is God willing to prevent phrogams, but not able?
Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing, to prevent phrogams?
Then he is malevolent.
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Darren New wrote:
> Aydan wrote:
>> Drag whatever you want to drag onto the target app's taskbar button
>> and that app
>> will get focus and then drop it in there.
>
> Oh my. I'll have to try that next time. A new trick. :-)
>
It is amazing the *new* things you learn from watching other people work :)
BTW don’t try to drop the target on the target app's taskbar button.
Windows whinges like a POM :)
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Best Regards,
Stephen
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scott wrote:
> A window that had gained focus didn't automatically become the top-most
> window. This was really useful if you are trying to type something into
> a document while looking at something else. Today I find myself
> fiddling about with resizing and moving windows unnecessarily so I can
> type while seeing some other window.
This has been hit upon a few times in this thread, and Windows can do a
stay-on-top thing...if you're using particular skins with WindowBlinds.
Haven't really played with it in a long time, so don't know what
practical things it can do now. Skinning apps was, for me, really just
a passing fad from around the turn o' the century. Nowadays I'm just
concerned with the application space, not what colour the edges and
things are. When the layout is identical, the skin on top hardly
changes much, unless it's something *really* different from the base.
--
Tim Cook
http://empyrean.freesitespace.net
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scott wrote:
>> I saw a demo of a drag-and-drop idea I've been lusting after ever since.
>
> What I really miss in Windows which was the norm on the Acorn GUI was to
> be
> able to drag-n-drop to *save* a file from an application. Quite often I
> find myself having the explorer window open of some folder deep on our
> network drive and I want to save my document in there. On the Acorn you
> could just click save and drag the file icon to the explorer window, but
> on Windows you have to navigate in the save dialog to the folder,
> copy&paste the path name into the save box, or save to the desktop and
> then move it in explorer.
Mac supports that.
Applications that handle "documents" show a document icon in the titlebar.
You can drag it to a Finder window.
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Tim Cook wrote:
> scott wrote:
>> A window that had gained focus didn't automatically become the top-most
>> window. This was really useful if you are trying to type something into
>> a document while looking at something else. Today I find myself
>> fiddling about with resizing and moving windows unnecessarily so I can
>> type while seeing some other window.
>
> This has been hit upon a few times in this thread, and Windows can do a
> stay-on-top thing...if you're using particular skins with WindowBlinds.
Or with menu addons like PowerMenu.
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