This sounds interesting and worthwhile ....

Cheers,

Alan

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At 10:14 PM -0500 12/5/01, Lex Spoon wrote:
>  > For what it's worth, I notice that the Mac UI deals with drag & drop by
>>  making the dragged item either transparent or translucent, so that you
>>  can see the item underneath that you might place it in.
>>
>>  Also, the accepting item is highlighted when passed over.  (I guess
>>  Squeak already does this in some cases such as when dragging methods
>>  into new categories.)
>
>That combination might work well.  Squeak will highlight projects you
>are about to drop into, but it doesn't always help very much because
>project windows are so small -- you often can't see the highlight!  With
>translucency, you could see the highlight.
>
>Doing it for bookmorphs seems sensible, though mildly overkill somehow.
>But I guess if we are going to allow huge morphs to drop into
>moderately-sized bookmorphs, then it would make fine sense.
>
>
>>
>>  (I was also a bit surprised to notice that the Mac also uses the
>>  location of the mouse to determine the drop point, not the middle 
>>of the morph.)
>>
>
>Hmm, interesting.
>
>
>-Lex


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