Agreed on all points. The fact that one can not move files using VO
in the Finder is a huge flaw. This ties a rather fundamental failure
on Apple's part in not providing a VO compatible keyboard equivalent
for Drag-and-Drop.
And my attempts to get enough information on the apple mailing lists
to implement a drag and drop scheme for us have failed miserably. It
*should* be possible to populate the events buffer with a series of
mouse movements, including drag events to move an item from one place
on the screen to another. My repeated requests to various apple
lists on this topic (and others) have gone unanswered. In fact, I've
only ever received one or two answers on *any* apple list when I
asked a question, and none of them actually answered my question, but
merely pointed me to documentation I'd already examined that was
*supposed to* answer my question. Apparently, the apple lists are
for a particular range of questions, and/or whatever somebody feels
like answering. I've seen other questions get no answer as well, but
the large majority of them spark lots of discussions. It must just
be my method of asking, because I cannot get a satisfactory answer on
nearly anything regarding internals of events and how they operate.
I've tried getting info on drag and drop simulation, creating voices
for voiceover, dvd sound playback manipulation, terminal/voice
interaction, and a few more I can't remember at the moment. The only
ones that even got a reply was the one about having modifier keys
recognized in keydown events, and they only referred me to
documentation I'd already read.
There was one person who said he'd tutor anyone for a fee about
anything regarding cocoa programming. I put a question to him as
well, offering to pay for the time since that's what he was
advertising, and still, no reply.
There must really be something off about where/how/when/why I ask my
questions, because I honestly can't figure out why such questions on
2-3 different apple lists over the last year have met with such
resounding silence.
I'm tempted to try my adc select membership apple support event, and
see if that works, since nothing else seems to. At least there I'd
get an answer, though with the success I've had so far, it'll
probably be an answer along the lines of
"sorry, we don't support that sort of inquiry, because it would
expose too much apple internals." or
"that's beyond our scope of support."
But anyway, I keep plugging away, and eventually I'll figure all this
stuff out on my own.
It's just frustrating that I *know* what needs done, and can't find
out how to do it.
