Re: Suggestion: Make drag-and-drop default in NSTextView

[Fred Kiefer]

Yen-Ju Chen wrote:
> > From: Alexander Malmberg <alexander@malmberg.org>
> > To: discuss-gnustep@gnu.org
> > Subject: Re: Suggestion: Make drag-and-drop default in NSTextView
> > Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2004 02:19:47 +0200
> >
> > Yen-Ju Chen wrote:
> > > Sorry that now I realize that NSTextView does support drop by default.
> > > (Thanx help from Boibles@hotmail...).
> > > I use a custom NSTextView in Gorm.
> > > But I still need to register (ForDraggedTypes:) this custom 
> > NSTextView in
> > > order to receive drop action,
> >
> > I think that's expected, at least according to the documentation. Is the
> > text view editable? Rich text? What types are you registering?
>
>
>  The text view is editable, non-rich, and register for NSStringPboardType.
>  It works, but not expect to register. Not a big problem, just different 
> from Cocoa.

Could you please explain some more, what you mean by this? Do you think 
that [updateDragTypeRegistration] should be called in the method 
[initWithFrame:textContainer:]? You may be right there, there seem to be 
some cases, where this call wont get done later on.

> > > which is not necessary in Cocoa.
> > > And the cursor does not follow the mouse when drop.
> > > Does it count for bug ?
> >
> > Maybe, but I'm not sure what you mean. cursor==icon?
>
>
>  Sorry for using the wrong word.
>  I mean the "insert point" (look like "I") does not follow the mouse 
> (and dragging icon).
>  It aways drops at the location where the insert point is before the 
> drag-and-drop.
>  For example, I place the insert point at location "a", and 
> drag-and-drop from other application.
>  It always fall on "a", not where the mouse is.

Ok, this is a bug in NSTextView