I'm ALMOST Ready To Puchase BUT.....

nifty-stuff · 10-13-2006, 06:06 PM

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Originally Posted by DayCuts

Do you mean dragging a file from the local explorer side, onto the taskbar, waiting for windows to change focus to that application, then moving into the application and releasing so that application attempts to open the file?

If so this seems to work fine for me, if not then I'm a little lost as to what you are talking about.

Hi DayCuts: Yes, I believe we're on the same page. I'm trying to drag a file from my local file explorer side of FlashFXP and dropping the file on one of the icons in my toolbar. For example, I may want to drag a file onto my notepad icon to open the file in notepad, or Dreamweaver to open with that program, or IE to view the file.

I think I'm getting use to setting up file extensions and using the view / edit settings to open files with my top two programs. It would just be nice to have FlashFXP work seamlessly with Windows like I've experienced with other apps.

MxxCon, glad we got that sorted out. I thought I was loosing my marbles. Not sure who bigstar is, but if he can get this put into a new build early next week that would be GREAT!

Thanks guys!

DayCuts · 10-14-2006, 06:39 AM

There actually seems to be a bug with this behavior.... when i tested before it was just a quick test and it worked fine.... however with a little more fiddling it is actually very inconsistant. Sometimes it will work and sometimes it wont.

Here is my guess as to what is causing it...

Working on the assumption that flashfxp uses an internal flag or variable of some sort to know when to allow certain actions. It seems the setting/unsetting could be improved a little. What is 'seems' to be doing is updating this flag everytime one of the 'switch' buttons are used to change to or from local browser, however this seems to be irrelevant of the status of the other side.

For example, if both sides are local browsers, and the dragging behavior is working fine, when one side is switched to remote browser, the flag is changed and the dragging behavior no longer works in the remaining local browser side. If you set the other side back to local it will work again. If you set both to remote, then one to local, it works. If you then set the second to local it continues to work. But as soon as one side is switched to remote the flag is changed and the remaining local browser side no longer functions completely as it should.

I'm sure Bigstar will look into this when possible.

All tested on 3.4.0 build 1145 / windows 2000

I am of corse assuming that flashfxp handles this internally and its not windows itself, so i could be wrong.