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.)

(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.)

Anyway, this is not to say that there isn't a better way. :)

- Doug Way
  dway at riskmetrics.com


Bijan Parsia wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Lex Spoon wrote:
> 
> [snip]
> > > Yick.
> > [...]
> > > Blargh.
> >
> > Everyone says this.  But what *exactly* is wrong with it?
> 
> Er..well, since you cut all the context, I can't remember.
> 
> I really don't have *too* much experience to go by, but it's something
> like this: If I'm collecting a bunch of things to throw in a book, I want
> it easy to throw them in and I want the book to be small, so I can see my
> desktop.
> 
> Hmm. Actually, I might be perfectly happy with a collapsed bookmorph with
> the ability to drop stuff on a new page. Maybe have little drop sensitive
> toggles?
> 
> I find bookmorphs a little hard to resize (you resize the *page* yes?) and
> sometimes find them a bit, in my casual experiments, hard to control
> (somtimes I'd like a fixed book size and variable page sizes, I think).
> 
> Does this help?
> 
> Cheers,
> Bijan Parsia.