On Jul 2, 2007, at 2:03 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: > > On 2 Jul 2007, at 10:36 PM, Derick Fay wrote: > >> On Jul 2, 2007, at 3:06 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: >> >>> >>> On 2 Jul 2007, at 5:53 PM, Derick Fay wrote: >>> >>>> I'll also post this to the sf feature requests. >>>> >>>> 1) If I start up BibDesk by double-clicking the icon, it obeys the >>>> setting in Preferences > Application Launch (set to a file called >>>> master.bib in my case) , but if I start BibDesk by dragging a >>>> reference to the icon, it disregards this setting and creates a >>>> new Untitled document & I need to manually open master.bib & drag >>>> the new reference in. Could there be an option to have imports >>>> automatically go to the file specified in Preferences > >>>> Application Launch? >>>> >>> >>> I don't think so. Imports should be added to a specific file, so a >>> file should be opened first before you add imports to it, without >>> exceptions, in my opinion. I don't like the idea of adding an extra >>> pref for this. >>> >> >> But doesn't it seem contradictory that the preference is Application >> Launch > Open file... but in fact this only happens when the app. is >> launched by double-clicking on the application icon, not when the >> app. is launched through drag-and-drop? Rather than adding a >> separate pref. the behavior could be made consistent no matter how >> the app. is launched. > > No. Opening a file with an application shows the file you open, and > dropping a file is opening a file. While opening the app just > launches a default file (if you choose so). That's something > completely different. In fact, generally it is annoying if an app > opens a default file when all you want is to view another file, > that's why it's not done. > > Adding imported files to the default *launch* file changes the launch > file, while all you may have wanted to see is what's in the file, not > add them. Now you're still able to add the items to the file. > Moreover, you usually would have the default file open anyway. If you > want to import items in this file, you add them to the file by > dropping them on that file. If you drop them on the app icon, you > open these items, which is a totally different action. Doing things > differently would actually reduce the options you have, and would be > wrong.
If you're looking for a drag-and-drop method of importing new items when the BibDesk window is obscured, keep in mind that you can start dragging, command-tab to BibDesk while dragging, then drop into your main bib window. The reason why the requested behavior would be problematic is because BibDesk is document-centered; like Word, it can have many documents open at the same time, and so BibDesk doesn't know what you mean (which document to add the pubs to) when you drop something on the icon. Mail, by contrast, isn't, so it can safely assume dropping something on it means mail that dropped item. It might be possible to create an Applescript droplet app to do what you want (open up BibDesk, open your main doc, add publications of dropped file to main doc), but that might require some wizardry. -AHM ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
