Drag n Drop not working

Serengeti (Rhino WIP)
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Hi,

Drag and dropping files over the WIP does not work at least not always. Is this expected at this point?

EDIT:
When drag dropping from the desktop or windows explorer D&D works. However in my goto file manager Freecommander the D7D works for V5 but not the WIP.

So something is different in how the WIP handles a D&D from how V5 does that.

For testing you could run the portable (no install) version of freecommander to be found here:
http://freecommander.com/en/downloads-portable/

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-Willem

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What are you dragging and dropping? Are you running the Rhino WIP as an administrator or with elevated privileges? This is known not to work…

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Hi Dale,

A .3dm file that when drag droped from the same location ( my filemanager; FreeCommander) works in V5 but not for the WIP

No it’s a “regular run” afaik: as a test if I run the WIP as administrator, indeed I cannot drag and drop from windows explorer.

When I drag drop running in normal mode, I can DragDrop from windows explorer but not from my filemanager.
I do get a [+] icon at the cursor but after that nothing happens.
For a quick test I post the .zip file with the portable (no install) version of free commander.
FreeCommanderXE-32-public_portable.zip (7.5 MB)

Just unzip it and run FreeCommander.exe
Navigate to a 3dm file (defaults to desktop) and drag drop it over a WIP instance

For V5 this works for me, but not for the WIP

Thanks
-Willem

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Well I am able to repeat what you are report. I have no idea how to fix, unfortunately…

https://mcneel.myjetbrains.com/youtrack/issue/RH-37580

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I ran this through the debug process and found that Rhino is getting a files dropped message from Windows but Windows is reporting 0 files and a “ERROR_INVALID_HANDLE 6 (0x6) The handle is invalid” Windows error. I’m not sure what can be done about this, it appears that the data being provided by FreeCommander is not formatted in a way that is compatible with the current Microsoft tools. I would suggest contacting the FreeCommander people to see if this is a known problem.

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Hi John,

Thanks for investigating. I’ll try to pass this to the freecommander support.

Yet V5 has no problem opening the file, so the WIP is using other code to parse a drag n drop?

Thanks
-Willem

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No it’s the identical code…

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If so, how come V5 does and the WIP doesn’t catches the drag drop?

-Willem

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Well, if we knew this…

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Hi Dale and @JohnM

Thanks for your efforts.
I emailed the developer of the filemanager and pointed him to this issue.
As I decided it was a good opportunity to donate to the developer, I found the donation gave access to his 64bit version.

@ Marek Jasinski if you are reading along: The 64bit version did not exhibit the malfunctioning and worked as expected.

So I leave it be thanks

-Willem

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Run Rhino without administrator privilege. It was the solution

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