[DUG] Drag and drop attachments from email

[Rohit Gupta]

Nah,  its windows.  I have a couple of apps that pass messages to each 
other to tell the other that a file is ready to be read.  The message is 
passed after the file is closed and windows is told to flush the cache.  
The receiving PC waits for half a second.  Yet on, some PCs, the 
receiver can not find the file. 

It may be another one of those hidden apis that only MS use to make sure 
that other peoples apps do not work well.  :-)

Robert martin wrote:
> Yeah both explorer and Thunderbird pass the filename.  The difference 
> is than in explorer the file already exists in the location specified 
> whereas in thunderbird it actually passes the filename / path of where 
> it is about to save to !
>
> I suspect this is actually a bit of a bug in thunderbird but easy 
> enough to get around.
>
>
> Rob Martin
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> Richard Vowles wrote:
>> Robert martin wrote:
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> I have implemented code to allow dragging a file from windows file 
>>> manager to an app.  This works file (the app gets the file name and 
>>> does stuff).  However when I try dragging an attachment from 
>>> 'Thunderbird' (email app) the file name is received but I believe 
>>> the file isn't yet in place (i.e. my app gets the filename before / 
>>> during the saving of the file to disk).  Does anyone know how to get 
>>> around this?
>>>
>>>
>> Doing that from the Windows Explorer does that as well. When you drag 
>> a file into an Email, then it just gives you the filename. I believe 
>> it is just how Thunderbird works, but Google(TM) may tell us 
>> otherwise...
>>
>> Richard
>>
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