Drag & Drop from c:\windows\fonts\ doesn't work [no bug]

[hi5]

I only just noticed this behaviour earlier today and I don't know if this a bug or proper behaviour.

When I drag & drop a file from c:\windows to another program it works, so i can drop it as an attachment to an email or open a log file in a text editor.

But when I drag a file from c:\windows\fonts it simply doesn't work (tried it on Win 7 32bit and Win 8.1 64bit) - TC 9.0.

I start to drag & drop, I can drag & drop it to the other panel but when I want to drag it to my email program (I wanted to send a specific font via email) the drag & drop "mouse cursor" disappears so I can no longer drop it.

When you drag & drop your mouse cursor either gets that red circle to indicate you can't drop it there or that square with the + sign to indicate you can drop it. But when drag & dropping a file from c:\windows\fonts the mouse cursor just changes to a normal mouse cursor and the file you selected to drag is no longer "held" so you can't drop it. You can drop it to another panel so within TC it is fine, outside TC it won't work.

Not sure if this is supposed to happen as other files from other hidden folders in c:\windows or other locations don't have this problem, and as soon as the font.ttf is NOT in c:\windows\fonts you can drag & drop it just fine.

[petermad]

I can confirm that it is not possible to drag files from c:\windows\fonts to any other program - only between file panels in TC.

Also after having tried to drag a file from c:\windows\fonts outside of TC it is no longer possible to set focus to TC without first setting focus to another program.

Tried with TC both elevated and non-elevated and the bug also applies to TC8.52a

Another observation: If I right click on a file in c:\windows\fonts and click "Copy" then TC's - Copy dialog pops up in stead of the file just being copied to Clipboard as usual.

[ghisler(Author)]

Unfortunately this is not possible because "fonts" is a virtual folder in Explorer which is treated in a special way. I can try to prevent the locked focus, but I cannot do anything about this Windows problem. Also the normal context menu will not appear in this folder either.

[petermad]

It is interesting though that it is possible to drag-and-drop from the virtual \\fonts\ folder (cm_OpenFonts) but not from what appears as an ordinary folder: c:\windows\fonts\

[hi5]

Thanks for the info, I've updated the title of the thread to indicate it isn't a bug.

[HolgerK]

Possible workaround:

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cd \\localhost\C$\Windows\Fonts\

Regards
Holger

[petermad]

2HolgerK
Smart!

[MVV]

Another possible workaround (from elevated console):

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mklink /J %SystemRoot%\FontsNative %SystemRoot%\Fonts

And then drag from C:\Windows\FontsNative.