ON2007 Linking and Drag and Drop

[Aaron]

Why is it that when I drag and drop a file into ON2007 and select "copy
the file into the page," it creates an icon instead of a hyperlink?

The icons consume a lot of space, are difficult to organize, are not
terribly helpful (I know they are Acrobat files), and don't have titles
with enough space to be useful. Why have icons on the one hand and
hyperlinks on the other?

 

[Rainald Taesler]

Aaron shared these words of wisdom:

Why is it that when I drag and drop a file into ON2007 and select
"copy the file into the page," it creates an icon instead of a
hyperlink?

The icons consume a lot of space, are difficult to organize, are not
terribly helpful (I know they are Acrobat files), and don't have
titles with enough space to be useful.

They have "SpeedTips" (balloon tips) with quite some useful info.

Why have icons on the one hand and hyperlinks on the other?

IMHO it makes sense the way it was designed.
There are 3 different ways of handling drag+drop:
a) A link to the original file,
b) a copy of the file moved into ON's notebook directory;
c) an image printed onto current page.

If it's a link it is shown as a link.
If it's a copy an icon signalizes that.

The distinction is necessary.
And the icon is useful as all kind of files can be copied into ON and
the icon shows what type of file it is plus the SpeedTip.

I for one would not like to see this changed.

Rainald