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Control the 'text drag delay' time in Cocoa applications
Authored by: thinkyhead on Nov 23, '05 05:03:50PM

Thank you! I remember when I first noticed this behavior in ProjectBuilder in 10.0 or 10.1 and I thought Apple would fix this behavior in a future system version. I was very disappointed when they standardized on it for all Cocoa applications. It seemed like an unnecessary hold-over from NeXT.

*Now* what I'd like to see is that when you click on selected text, the cursor changes from a BAR to an ARROW or an OPEN HAND as the text drag becomes available, and then changes to an ARROW WITH CLIP or a CLOSED HAND when the user starts dragging.

With all the other feedback mechanisms in Mac OS X - like Poofs and the Genie Effect, this would be a very nice interface behavior. And I wouldn't mind a subtle *click* sound as text becomes draggable either.

This sounds like a job for Unsanity!


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