On Mar 1, 2010, at 6:27 PM, Matthew Lindfield Seager wrote: > On Monday, March 1, 2010, Andreas Mayer <andr...@harmless.de> wrote: >> Try dragging something onto the iTunes source list. iTunes will import it, >> but will not activate itself. > > Apples & Oranges... iTunes is (was?) a library application more than a > player. It also has origins in audio, not video. Then again I think > the "correct" behaviour is dictated by the principle of least > surprise... > > If I've told a video player to start playing files on open I would > generally expect the player to bring itself to the front after > specifically dropping a media file onto it.
I was going to make a similar comment, but noticed that if I drop a file into the iTunes source list (note this is the action Andreas described), it plays but iTunes does not come forward. Also, if I drag a link from Mail into a Safari window, the window loads the URL but Safari does not come forward. If I drag into the application's *icon* in the Dock, the application does come forward as I expected. So there seems to be a distinction between dragging into an application's window as opposed to its icon. If I feel my app should come forward in both cases I do think it should be okay to implement it that way, but there *is* precedent for not activating the app. --Andy _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
