On 7 Aug 2009, at 22:17, brad tittle wrote:
When I click on textMate and drag a line that has already been selected down a line, it does not change the focus to textMate.
This is by design. Generally click-to-drag has the purpose of dropping the dragged text in your currently active application and hence should not change focus.
You should find this behavior in most other apps.
I am not complaining. I figured out what was going on and will adapt accordingly. I haven't managed to find this behavior in any apple application yet. I can't say have haved tried everything by any means, but Pages, Numbers, and Neo Office focus themselves when I attempt to drag anything.
I have to disagree slightly with your premise though. If you click in an application to drag something and then drop it in another application the focus should change according to the drop location. Whichever app received the drop should probably get focus. I can see times where this might not be preferable. If the drop is within the same application (in this case I dragged from textMate to textMate), the drop location is textMate and should make textMate the focus. I am having difficulty envisioning a time when dragging something in one application should result in the previously focussed app keeping focus unless that app receives the drop OR the drop results in a message to the focussed app (which at this time is NOT the app that is being manipulated).
As I said in my first post, I was doing it the backward way anyway.
I suspect that most people using textMate are keyboard maniacs and wouldn't resort to something as crude as a mouse drag (especially doing the extremely crude 1984 type debugging that I was doing -- resorting to log statements followed by DIE to find out how I had managed to cut my own throat, which I had.)
Have a great day. I love textMate. I can't get my boss to understand why textMate is better than DreamWeaver (but that is his problem and not yours, and results from his graphics background).
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 11:25 AM, brad tittle brad.tittle@trainnow.netwrote:
On 7 Aug 2009, at 22:17, brad tittle wrote:
When I click on textMate and drag a line that has already been selected down a line, it does not change the focus to textMate.
This is by design. Generally click-to-drag has the purpose of dropping the dragged text in your currently active application and hence should not change focus.
You should find this behavior in most other apps.
I wasn't able to confirm this behavior in other applications, but I was able to do something similar. If I use the mouse wheel to scroll through another document it does not change the focus. If I click on the scroll bar though, it does change the focus.
Once again, this is not a problem. Just observations.
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 11:25 AM, brad tittle brad.tittle@trainnow.net wrote:
I wasn't able to confirm this behavior in other applications, but I was able t o do something similar. If I use the mouse wheel to scroll through another doc ument it does not change the focus. If I click on the scroll bar though, it do es change the focus.
You weren¹t able to confirm this behavior? Try this:
Open TextEdit Type some text Select some text Focus another app Click and drag the selected text in TextEdit TextEdit will not regain focus.
Open Safari Go to a web page Select some text Focus another app Click and drag the selected text in Safari Safari will not regain focus.
Even the Finder, if clicking and dragging and item from the Desktop or open window, will not regain focus.
I¹m not much into Mac programming, but I suspect that this is basic behavior for most Cocoa apps. Carbon apps, such as iTunes, MS Office, and Adobe¹s apps, will likely focus as soon as you click.
The scroll wheel behavior you describe is standard in Leopard.
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