Re: [MacPerl] Droplet feature requests

[herron@cogsci.ucsd.edu (Dan Herron)]

Jerry Stratton writes:
>> 1) Could droplets be made to warn the user when too many files are dragged
>> onto them? At the moment, MacPerl seems to just silently fail when the
>> droplet doesn't have enough memory to handle all the files (I think). Maybe
>> the memory partition for droplets could be increased in general (or at
>> perhaps left where it was when MacPerl rebuilds the droplet), but maybe
>> there's a better solution.
> 
> I don't *think* that MacPerl knows this. I have the same problem with
> AppleScripts, so I'm assuming it is a finder-based limitation. The finder
> itself seems to pass on only a certain number of files to the drop app.

If you increase the partition for the droplet from 64K to something bigger you
can drag more files on it (at least as far as I can tell.) But I may, after
all, be crazy...

-dan


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