[proFit-list] Numbers to Pro Fit drag and drop behavior characterized

[Dave Sopchak]

Hi all,
	Apple's Numbers '09 drag and drop behavior was bugging me as well, so  
I whipped up a little application to see what was going on.

As far as I can tell, when you drag a set of cells from Numbers, say a  
2x2 grid, it will do a "correct" representation of the grid in Rich  
Text Format (RTF), with a bit of padding on the top and bottom. What  
it looks like Pro Fit is doing is taking the RTF format and converting  
it to "plain" format, but in doing this- I haven't had the chance to  
follow up on this- yet, the grid of numbers is lost and it becomes a  
single column. This does not happen if you do a drag and drop of a set  
of tab delimited stuff from say, TextEdit in RTF format.

If pro fit went after the "string" part of the drag rather than the  
RTF part of it, I believe everything would work smoothly. There is a  
tremendous amount of stuff in the drag from Numbers, so if your mouse  
feels heavy when you do it, this explains it ;)

I will be happy to post the app and the source code shortly, but for  
now I'm tired and it's been a long day, but at least I know a bit more  
about what's going on.

Cheers,
	Dave Sopchak