[Rainy Day]

Ever notice that you can't select text in a Cocoa application and begin a drag operation right away? You must wait a second or so before trying to drag it, else you begin a new selection instead of initiating a drag. Carbon apps work as they did in MacOS 9 (i.e. you can select and immediately drag the selection).

Anybody know where the delay constant is set? Must be somewhere in the Cocoa framework, but i'll be darned if i can find it. This delay has always driven me nuts. I don't know what kind of sick mind conceived it in the first place, but i'd sure like to make it go away to the corn field.

[Chuckit]

Nothing you can do about it. I think it's hardcoded.

[Rainy Day]

Everything else has a preference or variable somewhere. I suspect it can be changed, if only one knows where to look. Probably in the Cocoa frameworks someplace, but where? Was hoping someone might know.

[Chuckit]

There probably is a variable in the Cocoa source that controls it. But unless you're building Cocoa from source, I don't see what good that will do you.

Unless anybody has heard of something I haven't, the fact is that in four years of Mac OS X being out, nobody has figured out how to kill the Cocoa delay.