Use drag and drop to ease iCal event creation

Jun 16, '05 08:45:00AM

Contributed by: adrianm

Not sure if this is 10.4 only or not, but iCal seems to have good drag/drop support, namely:

  1. Drag text into iCal and a new event is created with that text as the title.
  2. Ditto with a URL, but the URL of the event is also set.
  3. Drag an event out of iCal to a text field, and a formatted description of the event is dropped.
There are possibly others ... and there's nice UI feedback during the drag/drop, too.

[robg adds: I tried dragging a text clipping onto iCal's dock icon, but that didn't work. You need to drag directly onto a day within the calendar. If someone can test in a pre-10.4 system, please let us know if it works.]

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