OS4.3.1 Drag and drop fields

Kelly Burgess kellyb at montana.com
Wed Apr 22 22:56:23 EDT 2009


Hi Bas,

>You would assume a mail client, when dragging mail, would just 
>deliver the original mail source text

Maybe things will change now that processors are faster and memory's 
cheaper... but that's why they came up with drag 'promises', because 
it could take way too long to conjur up the data that your drag 
represents (imagine the Finder having to read a group of files into 
memory before the drag could really get started).  And the recipient 
may not want that data anyway.  So drags are designed to be 
lightweight.  But yeah, it should be easier than it is to turn those 
promises into data.

Kelly



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