home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!pipex!bnr.co.uk!uknet!mcsun!sun4nl!ruuinf!plato.phil.ruu.nl!freek
- From: freek@phil.ruu.nl (Freek Wiedijk)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
- Subject: Re: Drag & Drop on an alias? What's missing?
- Message-ID: <freek.725303932@groucho.phil.ruu.nl>
- Date: 25 Dec 92 17:18:52 GMT
- References: <HARDIN.92Dec15221431@dino.mcc.com> <jpugh-191292124255@kip2-42.apple.com> <BzJDzq.BJI@news.udel.edu>
- Sender: news@phil.ruu.nl
- Organization: Department of Philosophy, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Lines: 14
- Nntp-Posting-Host: groucho.phil.ruu.nl
-
- In article <jpugh-191292124255@kip2-42.apple.com> jpugh@apple.com (Jon Pugh)
- writes:
- >I've seen what I call a bug wherein drag and drop fails on aliases to
- >programs on different volumes (i.e. your program is on volB and the alias
- >is on the desktop of volA).
-
- I suppose the desktop database of volA should know about the
- application on volB. Copying a document `owned' by that applicaton to
- volA (and then removing it) will probably help.
-
- Freek
- --
- Third theory of Phenomenal Dynamics: The difference between
- a symbol and an object is quantitative, not qualitative.
-