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Pick-and-drop mechanism

Pick-and-drop is one of Eiffel Software's exclusive technologies and is provided by Eiffel Vision2. In EiffelStudio it allows you to easily send data from a component of the interface to another.

You can pick every reference to a development object (like a class, a feature or an execution object) with a single click on the right mouse button. Then as you start moving the mouse around - not pressing any of its buttons - a pebble tracks the cursor position, and a line continuously connects the pebble to the object's original position. The pebble's shape indicates the type of the development object that you picked (oval disk for a class, cross for a feature, folder for a cluster...).

You may terminate this situation in either of two ways:

See Also
Pick-and-drop shortcut