Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sun 6th Aug 2006 17:52 UTC, submitted by teigetje
One of the strengths of RISC OS is the ability for people to drag'n'drop objects around the desktop. It's usually hard to describe how well this works, but other operating systems are rapidly catching up. While RISC OS still arguably has the edge, Drobe spoke to a number of professionals who rely on the drag'n'drop in RISC OS.
Thread beginning with comment 149688
To read all comments associated with this story, please click here.
To read all comments associated with this story, please click here.
RE: Pervasive drag-n-drop
by superstoned on Mon 7th Aug 2006 16:29
in reply to "Pervasive drag-n-drop"
Member since:2005-07-07
RE[2]: Pervasive drag-n-drop
by StephenBeDoper on Tue 8th Aug 2006 01:55
in reply to "RE: Pervasive drag-n-drop"
Member since:2005-07-06
most of these things work in KDE now, tough some annoying exceptions are there - like how you can't drag'n'drop text from konqueror. but i guess KDE 4 will fill in the last few voids ;-)
That makes sense. Based on my limited knowledge of programming, those sorts of things are much simpler when a C++ API is used (as is the case with BeOS and KDE, IIRC).
Member since:
2005-07-06
'Twas always one of the features I liked about BeOS. Especially:
- drag a folder / file onto an Open/Save box and the window changes to that folder
- text can be dragged from one entry field to another, E.g. if I mistakenly type a message subject in the address line, it can be selected and dragged to the subject line
- if you open an image in ShowImage, drag to make a selection, and then drag the selection to the Desktop / a folder, a new file will be created with the contents of the selection - and dragging with the right mouse button gives a pop-up to select the desired file format
- in the same way, audio clippings can be dragged from the SoundRecorder app (right-dragging lets you choose the codec)
- the same thing works with text selections / clippings and most applications, of course
- while playing a video in MediaPlayer, you can drag-and-dropping from the video window creates an image file of the current video frame