Re: WM_DROPFILES

From:

"Tom Serface" <tom.nospam@camaswood.com>

Newsgroups:

microsoft.public.vc.mfc

Date:

Sat, 17 Nov 2007 09:24:34 -0800

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<1447A1A1-DFD3-4B4D-BE31-021D07F4CEB5@microsoft.com>

Hmmm. That is curious. D&D works for me for both release and debug builds.
I wonder if we're just doing it different ways. I drag and drop into a
dialog. I have a handler for the message:

ON_WM_DROPFILES()

and I've called:

  DragAcceptFiles();

In OnInitDialog()

My handler looks like this:

void CMyDialog::OnDropFiles(HDROP hDropInfo)
{
     CDialog::OnDropFiles(hDropInfo);

     // Find how many files we are working with
     UINT nFiles = ::DragQueryFile(hDropInfo, (UINT) -1, NULL, 0);
     for(UINT nThisFile = 0; nThisFile < nFiles; ++nThisFile) {
          TCHAR szFile[_MAX_PATH];
          ::DragQueryFile(hDropInfo, nThisFile, szFile, _countof(szFile));
            // Do something with file
    }
    ::DragFinish(hDropInfo);
}

Are you doing it the same way?

Tom

"David Webber" <dave@musical-dot-demon-dot-co.uk> wrote in message
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"Tom Serface" <tom.nospam@camaswood.com> wrote in message
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Ah, you know... what I always do when I install a new Windows is go to
the Start/All Programs/Accessories tab and right click drag a copy of
Windows Explore icon to the quick launch bar so it's easy to get to....

Aha! I do exactly the same thing with "Computer" for the same reason :-)

However now, following your message, I have explorer there as well, and I
can right click and "run as administrator"...

..but I still apparently get no WM_DROPFILES when I drag and drop from it
into my app launched from within Visual Studio :-(

Dave
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