Trying out both June's and May's release of Wine, I noticed that there is some wierd behavior when selecting multiple files and dragging within an application. It basically makes the ability to select and drag files unusable.
In my case, I am using AbsoluteFTP; as you guessed, its an FTP app. If you can imagine, within it, there are two windows that look like the file Explorer on Windows. On the left, is the local machine and the right is the box you've FTPed into. On wine-20041201, I can hold down shift and select >2 files on the remote box. Then using my mouse, drag them to my localbox.
On (at least), these last two releases, I select multiple-files, and the moment I try to drag, the multi-select turns into a one file select. Furthermore, the app enters into a state where it thinks I am holding the mouse down dragging the one file around. Minimizing and maximizng the app doesn't work either; in previous versions, when I couldn't drag a file from one window to the other, I'd minimize/ maximize the app (which would "reset" things), and I could drag files once again.
Also, on my CodeWright application, I can no longer highlight text by dragging the mouse across code.
Any ideas? I'm sure it will ring a bell for someone who may have been working towards improving the mouse dragging capabilities.
Thanks! Hiji
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Hiji schreef:
On (at least), these last two releases, I select multiple-files, and the moment I try to drag, the multi-select turns into a one file select. Furthermore, the app enters into a state where it thinks I am holding the mouse down dragging the one file around. Minimizing and maximizng the app doesn't work either; in previous versions, when I couldn't drag a file from one window to the other, I'd minimize/ maximize the app (which would "reset" things), and I could drag files once again.
Just FYI, I've noticed similar behaviour on WinRAR-- if I double-click to open an archive or folder inside an archive "uncleanly" (meaning the mouse moves slightly between the first click and the second, although not off the selection), I get a 'forbidden' cursor (circle with a slash through it), am unable to do anything, and eventually the action times out with a message that the drag-and-drop operation I was supposedly trying to perform was not permitted.
I usually just kill the app and reopen it to try again. I haven't got round to setting WinRAR to accept single-clicks instead of the default double-click (which, iirc, is a config option), but that's the 'solution' I would expect to work.
Anyway, WinRAR otherwise works beautifully (without needing tweakage of any sort), but the mention of a very similar issue on another program suggests that I should report this (very unusual) problem as possibly related, in case that helps narrow the issue down.
Holly
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