Hmm...  I'm returning the NSDragOperationNone now, all I get is an image of 
what is being dragged no other symbol and the outlineview won't accept the drop 
which is correct.  When I have a valid selection, I get the other symbol for 
copy(green circle with plus sign), or for Move, the outlineview highlights the 
drop point.

-Tony

On Jun 16, 2010, at 7:11 PM, Kyle Sluder wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 6:55 PM, Tony Romano <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Briefly, in a DnD operation all the nodes selected need to be siblings of 
>> each other.  During validateDrop I check for this and it calculates it just 
>> fine.  However, I need to set the DnD image to something indicating this is 
>> not allowed, I thought using the International NO symbol made sense but it 
>> is not defined as one of the NSDragOperation... flags.  So I am thinking 
>> either this is not HIG compliant or it is and I just need to supply my own.  
>> I know I have seen other apps do it but it's doesn't been it's HIG compliant.
> 
> I believe that's a Carbon thing; there is also no standard "not
> allowed" cursor. Just return NSDragOperationNone and let the
> slide-back animation do its job.
> 
> If you want to explain to the user why they can't drag, maybe you
> could use a tooltip? Query the draggingInfo in -draggingUpdated: and
> use it to position a borderless window that describes why the
> operation can't be done.
> 
> --Kyle Sluder
> 

-Tony

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