On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 10:29:03AM +0200, Martin Vermeer wrote: > Interesting. It feels like direct manipulation to me. > > I am using it all the time in math. Discovered it by accident but > grasped it straightaway, and now it is second nature. Delete the whole > by trying to delete a part, or 'handle'. > > Apparently direct manipulation is in the eye of the beholder. The > behavour of 'dragging handles' isn't always obvious either.
Please go read that glossary entry again, then come back and explain how it is possibly direct manipulation, seeing as nothing is directly manipulated. regards john p.s. my email is lossy, if there was something somebody asked of me over the past few days email me privately -- Khendon's Law: If the same point is made twice by the same person, the thread is over.
