Show title of target window during drag & drop

I think it would be useful if the Wimp was able to show the title of the window that the mouse is over when you’re in the middle of a drag & drop operation – to help with situations where you’ve got lots of windows stacked ontop of each other and you can’t see the full title (or might be able to see the title, but might not be sure which window is which)

Possibly there’s already a utility to do this. Or possibly everyone else just organises their windows better than I do ;-)

;-) A slight variation, the window you are dragging to, briefly surfaces to the top of the stack and then resumes it position.

I use !Director, menu button over the BACK icon to help with lots of windows stacked on top of each other.

A slight variation, the window you are dragging to, briefly surfaces to the top of the stack and then resumes it position

Not a good idea.

Scenario 1: User is dragging over a partly-obscured window which appears to jump to the front of the stack. Thinking that the window really has jumped to the front, the user continues the drag for a few pixels before releasing the mouse button – long enough for the actual release point to be in another window. Result: selection ends up being placed in the wrong window.

Scenario 2: User is dragging over a partly-obscured window which actually does jump to the front of the stack. Unfortunately the user wasn’t interested in that window, which is now obscuring the window that the user did want to use.

By all means display all of the title bar, but not the whole window.

Wouldn’t you then need to right justify to allow for long file paths of reduced windows? Not in front of a machine at the moment & csn’t recall which way ot goes.

How about press Alt while dragging to bring the window under the pointer to the front possibly just while Alt is pressed then it goes back when Alt is released. Although if it didn’t go back you could drag and drop text to the correct position in a semi hidden window.

or a keyboard shortcut to cycle through windows which would work while dragging.

Wouldn’t you then need to right justify to allow for long file paths of reduced windows? Not in front of a machine at the moment & csn’t recall which way ot goes.

It doesn’t necessarily have to be the actual title bar that appears, it could just be a tooltip-style popup containing the text (and maybe the iconise-icon of the window, so you can more easily work out what program the window belongs to)