The true Drag and Drop.

Well I was playing around on my Mac last night and I accidentally discovered something I have never seen mentioned, “Drag and Drop”.
I was surfing around the web in Safari when for some reason I moved the mouse as I was clicking on an image, paused for a second, did I see that? Did the image move? Hang on, you mean to tell me I can actually just drag an image from a website and drop it into a finder window or the desktop! So I thought that was pretty neat, then I started to wonder….I opened PhotoShop, dragged and image from a website onto the blank canvas and bam! The image was in PhotoShop, even on a new layer!

This thing is amazing; I love it more and more each and every day.

This is a great feature! You can even drag and drop images from websites that block the ability to right-click and download the image.

drag and drop is so intuitive - I'm glad it's in OSX

Hate to spoil the mac-party, but that can be done just the same in windows too. Don't get me wrong, I am so EXCITED for August 3rd (my macbook!!!), but that feature is not mac-only.

Xshare said:

Hate to spoil the mac-party, but that can be done just the same in windows too. Don't get me wrong, I am so EXCITED for August 3rd (my macbook!!!), but that feature is not mac-only.

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Of course! XP Pro I know has it, I use it at work. I'm glad MS wised up.

XP Home edition definitly didnt. This was a happy trick that i also thought was Mac OSX exclusive.

don't forget to use exposé with drag and drop. extremely useful

Xshare said:

Hate to spoil the mac-party, but that can be done just the same in windows too.

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Yeah, but on the Mac you can hold the image over a folder to open that folder, and then repeat over and over until you get it where you want it, not just drop it onto the desktop.

oh just wait until you accidentally drag a picture from your desktop, or finder, onto your main page in safari!!!!!

-chris

coach_z said:

oh just wait until you accidentally drag a picture from your desktop, or finder, onto your main page in safari!!!!!

-chris

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WHAT HAPPENS IF YOU DO THAT????

It opens the image in safari...

You can also drag items onto the icons in your dock to open them, apps or folders into the toolbar of your finder windows and you can copy/paste folder & file names into text/html documents, which I find extremely handy!

Took me a week to figure that out...great feature

Sweet, I did not know about this until now.
Time to experiement with this feature.

I had no idea of this feature or that Windows XP Pro even had it! good to know... sounds excellent.

One great drag and drop feature that is available in OS X and KDE but not windows- highlight some text, drag it into a finder (or konqueror in kde) window, and it will create a new text document in that folder with the text that was dragged into the window. I discovered this when I was reading a pdf document with some code in it. I just highlighted the code, dragged it into some folder, and ran it. Very convinient.

RChickenMan said:

One great drag and drop feature that is available in OS X and KDE but not windows- highlight some text, drag it into a finder (or konqueror in kde) window, and it will create a new text document in that folder with the text that was dragged into the window. I discovered this when I was reading a pdf document with some code in it. I just highlighted the code, dragged it into some folder, and ran it. Very convinient.

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Wow, that's a cool feature. Thanks for the tip.

I just tested on Windows XP home. Success. It does work on windows XP home. And while you can't do the thing with the folders (that sounds awesome, I can't wait for my macbook) you can do the thing with dragging to applications.

You can do the folder thing in XP home, if you have the folder open in the task bar just hover it over for a few seconds and the folder will restore to its normal size and you drop it in, or hold it over the start button, wait for it to open then put in my documents etc.

Its been on XP Home for ages, its the way I always have put images into photoshop. The irony is that MS Fans always used the lack of drag and drop in OS9 as the reason Macs are bad, glad they have it now, I assumed they still didnt.

I had no idea I could that. Isn't it great how you OSX suprises you even when you think you know it.

OS X allows MUCH more freedom in navigating the file system via drag-and-drop. In XP, I can easily drag a file to a location that is already open, or to somewhere such as my documents where there is a shortcut in the start menu. However, in OS X, regardless of what I am doing, I can start by dragging a file, holding it over the link to Macintosh HD, it will open that, and I can continue navigating the file system by holding the item being dragged over folders and such, until I get to where I want, and finally release the mouse button. I am often very fustrated in XP at the lack of ability to do this.