Support Drag'n'Drop out of archives

tcp · Post by *tcp » 2014-08-26, 13:00 UTC

Currently I cannot drag and drop files out of archives (e.g. zip). It would be nice if the dragged files could be unpacked temporarily to support dragging.

Horst.Epp · Post by *Horst.Epp » 2014-08-26, 13:16 UTC

I can !
Using TC 8.51a x86 and x64
Tested with zip, 7zip, rar

Dalai · Post by *Dalai » 2014-08-26, 13:35 UTC

Horst.Epp wrote:I can !
[...]
Tested with zip, 7zip, rar

I second that.

So the questions are: Which OS are you using? Which TC version are you using? Where do you try to drop the files?

Regards
Dalai

MVV · Post by *MVV » 2014-08-26, 14:25 UTC

tcp,
Maybe you running TC elevated and trying to drag files to Explorer windows? It is impossible to drag files between elevated and non-elevated windows.

Horst.Epp · Post by *Horst.Epp » 2014-08-26, 16:41 UTC

MVV wrote:tcp,
Maybe you running TC elevated and trying to drag files to Explorer windows? It is impossible to drag files between elevated and non-elevated windows.

Its the other way around

Its impossible to drag files from non-elevated to elevated windows

MVV · Post by *MVV » 2014-08-26, 17:24 UTC

Explorer isn't elevated so I made such conclusion. Anyway, my second sentence includes your one too.

tcp · Post by *tcp » 2014-08-27, 10:58 UTC

OK, you are all right - generally it's working.

Here is my (maybe unrelated to TC) very specific use case:
I tried to drag a file from TC out of a tar.gz archive into a WinSCP window inside of a VMware Player with Windows XP and VMware Tools installed. This is working if I drag a file directly from the file system, but not out of the archive.

Post by *ghisler(Author) » 2014-08-28, 09:02 UTC

When you drag a file out of an archive, there is no real file, so TC cannot send the usual "list of files" drop data. Instead, it has to send one or more OLE objects. The recipient would request the content of the file from that object - at which point TC would extract the data and pass it to the recipient. Of course this only works when the recipient also supports this type of drop data. For example, the Explorer does.

tcp · Post by *tcp » 2014-08-28, 10:53 UTC

Thanks for the explanation!

ghisler(Author) wrote:When you drag a file out of an archive, there is no real file, so TC cannot send the usual "list of files" drop data. Instead, it has to send one or more OLE objects. The recipient would request the content of the file from that object - at which point TC would extract the data and pass it to the recipient. Of course this only works when the recipient also supports this type of drop data. For example, the Explorer does.