Drag&Drop stops working

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mmsguru
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Drag&Drop stops working

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Howdy Guys,

something strange is happening...

I use drag&drop from out of the TC frequently for loading documents in various applications. Somehow that feature stops working after some time. :(
Unfortunately, i can not yet tell which operation/combination leads to that status - it usually happens after some hours (i really use TC a lot).
I doubt its connected to the time its running, i guess its some combination of operations :!: :?:

The result is; once i drag any file out of the TC framewnd, the cursor switches back to the normal arrow as if i did not drag anything.

I am using XP engl. with all latest fixes installed.

Anyone experiencing such problem and maybe even found a cure :?:

cheers !
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Post by *Aezay »

This is properly not the answer you're looking for, since you have a problem where D&D stops working after a while, but take a look here anyway: ALT-TAB and Drag and Drop?
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Post by *ghisler(Author) »

Somehow that feature stops working after some time.
This can happen when there is an access violation or other crash in drag&drop. OLE drag&drop is a very complex operation, and it's easy to make programming errors. TC's drag&drop function has been tested very extensively and shouldn't have any errors now, but it can crash when the other end does something wrong or requests data in a way which TC cannot provide. Can you tell me to which program you dropped the files when drag&drop stopped working?
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