[DUG] Drag and drop attachments from email

[Robert martin]

As much as I hate to defend MS but......

It definitely is Thunderbird.  I could see my error message saying the 
file was not there before I saw the thunderbird saving in progress dialog !

In this case it was simply thunderbird passing the message before the 
file is saved.

Rob Martin
Software Engineer

phone +64 03 377 0495
fax   +64 03 377 0496
web www.chreos.com

Wild Software Ltd



Rohit Gupta wrote:
> 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
>> Software Engineer
>>
>> phone +64 03 377 0495
>> fax   +64 03 377 0496
>> web www.chreos.com
>>
>> Wild Software Ltd
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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