New (for me) Drag and Drop Bug

[Bearded Kirklander]

I noticed this today when I was working with the v392 and v394 Beta's on Windows XP SP2. I tested it on two different machines and results were repeatable. I could not find a way to alter the behavior by resetting to defaults, so I think it is a bug.

Here's a screen shot that may do a better job of demonstrating the problem than I can do with words alone:



If I select and try to drag and drop from the left pane to the right pane, if the mouse cursor is hovering over the text of a file name, a black circle and bar show on the screen indicating that it will not be able to perform the copy.

If I try the same drag and drop but locate the mouse cursor so it does not hover over a file name, there is no black circle and bar, and the copy functions as expected.

I'm not sure if this behavior is intended or if is a big, so I erred on the side of caution and wanted to post about it.

Thanks much,

BK

[ralfso]

This is normal behaviour of drag and drop in windows.

In case 1 you tell the program to copy 10 files to the file under your cursor. This is impossible for the selected file-type.
(This may be possible e.g. for 10 jpg-files to drop on a photoeditor.exe-file to open all files)

In case 2 you tell the program to copy 10 files to the folder on the right side. This is possible.

[Bearded Kirklander]

This is normal behaviour of drag and drop in windows.

In case 1 you tell the program to copy 10 files to the file under your cursor. This is impossible for the selected file-type.
(This may be possible e.g. for 10 jpg-files to drop on a photoeditor.exe-file to open all files)

In case 2 you tell the program to copy 10 files to the folder on the right side. This is possible.

PowerDesk Pro 5 does not suffer from this problem at all. It behaves as it should be expected to behave.

I see no reason why Free Commander should not at least allow this functionality if the user wishes to enable it - perhaps via a checkbox or something similar.