Hi Eric,
I would like to be able to drag an image to a metacard stack, drop
the image,
and have the stack recognize it as an image and import it.
I have no idea the properties if that is even possible, I sort of
doubt it. I
could script opening a directory and importing the image no
probl
>I would like to be able to drag an image to a metacard stack, drop the
image,
>and have the stack recognize it as an image and import it.
>
>I have no idea the properties if that is even possible, I sort of doubt it.
I
>could script opening a directory and importing the image no problem, or
Try this:
Create a blank image object on your stack. Set the lockLoc of it to
true. Set it's script:
on dragenter
set the acceptdrop to true
end dragenter
on dragDrop
get the dragdata
if it is not empty then
put it into tFile
if char -4 to -1 it is ".jpg" then
set the file
Okay, again from the Human Interface Guidelines...
The biggest difficulty as of yet in MetaCard Drag & Drop is this:
Select a chunk of a text and then go backwards selecting the same text. You
can't do it; it will try to drag the text instead. You can also notice this
in a palette: select the
At 4:29 PM -0700 7/24/2001, Geoff Canyon wrote:
>I understand that -- I'd just like another way to cancel a
>drag and drop (again, at the OS level -- not suggesting MC
>try to set a new standard here. If the thing being dragged is
>small, it can be hard to hit.
Tip: You can standardly cancel a dr
At 4:58 PM -0500 7/24/01, Jacqueline Landman Gay wrote:
>Geoff Canyon wrote:
>
>> I know that feeling of "whoops, now what do I do with _this_?" It would be nice if
>there were a way to cancel a drag. Of course, that's an OS issue, not a MetaCard
>issue.
>
>If you drop the text anywhere within t
on 07.24.01 2:52 PM, Dave Cragg wrote:
>
> Personally, I just don't like Drag and Drop as a text editing method.
> Once you start dragging, you're in a kind of no-man's-land with a
> live bomb where you can't simply abort the mission. You've got to
> drop it somewhere. But if no one else here is
Geoff Canyon wrote:
> I know that feeling of "whoops, now what do I do with _this_?" It would be nice if
>there were a way to cancel a drag. Of course, that's an OS issue, not a MetaCard
>issue.
If you drop the text anywhere within the original selection, it should
all just go back where it wa
At 8:52 PM +0100 7/24/01, Dave Cragg wrote:
>Personally, I just don't like Drag and Drop as a text editing method. Once you start
>dragging, you're in a kind of no-man's-land with a live bomb where you can't simply
>abort the mission. You've got to drop it somewhere. But if no one else here is
At 8:39 am -0700 24/7/01, Geoff Canyon wrote:
>At 10:59 AM +0100 7/24/01, Dave Cragg wrote:
>>In the current beta, after selecting text, clicking down on the
>>selection *immediately* switches to the Drag and Drop cursor, and
>>any subsequent dragging of the mouse will move the selected text.
>
At 10:59 AM +0100 7/24/01, Dave Cragg wrote:
>In the current beta, after selecting text, clicking down on the selection
>*immediately* switches to the Drag and Drop cursor, and any subsequent dragging of
>the mouse will move the selected text.
Isn't this the way it happens everywhere? On the Ma
- Original Message -
From: "Simon Lord" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2001 3:17 PM
Subject: Drag and Drop
> Does MC support dragging an image, text file or folder onto a field
> or button in a open stack? Ideally, I'd like to drag a set of image
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