Submission details
Enable Drag and Drop to Taskbar
If I have Notepad open and I want to copy and paste some text from a website into it, fine. I'm simply using this as an example. Depending on the context of the application I should be able to simply drop certain things onto items on the taskbar and have the application make use of it.
For example, I should be able to highlight some text in an Internet Explorer window and drag and drop it onto Microsoft Word or Notepad directly on my taskbar. Simply include a default drop point in the applications bundled with Windows so that this is possible. If the content isn't the right type for the drop point then just give the circle with a line through it icon. Notepad's default drop point should be the textbox that pretty much is the entire application, this would allow text to be dropped to the taskbar and go right into Notepad. This would append the text to the open document. Doing this would not make the window that I'm dropping onto take focus, which would allow me to easily continue reading what I was doing. BUT, for example, If I drag some text over Notepad on my taskbar and leave the cursor hovering there for a second or two it will bring Notepad to the front and allow me to drop the text where I want in the document.
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Discussion (8 comments)
You obviously aren't following what I'm saying. Maybe my description wasn't written well enough.
Changed solution description.
Sorry, I guess it is because of my bad English ;)
I still think that this is too complicated to do (set default drop points for different programs) and the benefit isn't THAT big. And it may confuse people when it only works for some apps.
But, yeah, it is not a bad idea. They should definitely put some more features to the taskbar and enable a better data exchange between the Windows apps.
"too complicated to do"
Are you kidding me? Windows is an Operating System. It's pretty complicated... and HUGE, if you hadn't noticed. About it confusing people, of course it might, but have you tried putting a computer in front of someone who has never used one before? They don't even know which direction to hold the mouse.
@QuiescentWonder: I mean it would be complicate because every app must get this feature to tell the taskbar where to drop a file.
And I have teached my parents to use the PC so yes, I know about such people ;)
In my eyes the problem for newbies here is, that they do not see where the content is going so they may end up with trying it over and over again.
-1!
For example, if you have opened Explorer and Total Commander - in full-sized windows, or with minimized Total Commander), then if you drag a file from Explorer to TC's taskbar button, you don't have choice where to copy/move the file!
Yeah, I know TC is not part of Windows, but this feature is not needed, because if i try the hover mouse at TC's button for 2 seconds and then select where I want to copy method, it will perfect!
Sorry, if my English is a little bad... :(
@litemininyuszika,
In your specified case it would copy/move to the active directory in Total Commander.
I do know that Total Commander has multiple file windows and tabs but one is active at any specific time.
tino wrote on June 13, 2008, 2:16am
It will not work without exactly point the stuff onto the right place at the program. That's why dropping thing onto the taskbar does not work. But you can drag text or images over the taskbar to another app.
Example: Dragging an image from Firefox to Photoshop. PS needs to know where I want the image to go: on the menu or background to create a new document or on the opened document to past the image inside.