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Old 11-20-2005, 12:10 PM   #1
Alan Bergstein
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I'm working in a number of Mac X apps that support drag & drop text and I find the sensitivity to be awkward. Since this happens in nearly all apps, I suspect that this is a system-level issue. Is there any way to adjust the timing of the pause that's necessary before you can drag the text string? thank you, AB
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Old 11-20-2005, 12:59 PM   #2
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There is a difference between Cocoa and Carbon apps in the way that drag and drop of text is handled. (Cocoa & Carbon are software libraries used by programmers to implement parts of their apps)

The way to configure the delay time in Cocoa apps was recently "discovered":
http://www.macgeekery.com/tips/custo..._drag_and_drop
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Old 11-20-2005, 01:19 PM   #3
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My god! For years since 10.0 I have suffered through lost selections because of this idiotic behaviour which I just wrote off as another example of bad GUI design in OS X that slows down a user and prevents them from working efficiently. This tip is gold.

Thanks, hayne, for pointing out its existence.
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