08-05-2012, 06:14 PM | #16 |
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@Doitsu: Exactly the same problem here, D&D works fine with other programs, used to work fine with Calibre until a month or two ago, and now does not work with Calibre. Can you tell what firewall you are referring to and how can I disable it? Thanks
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08-06-2012, 12:17 AM | #17 | |
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You shouldn't have to disable a firewall, but you might need to configure it to 'trust' Calibre. Calibre accesses the net quite a lot, e.g. it chats to this site to see if there are any plug-in updates. What firewall do you use on each of your two computers - same one or different one. Do you run any other gadgets - like anti-loggers (e.g. PerfectGuard) or internet gate-keepers (e.g. App-Blocker) I run the Zemana anti-logger, and I have to retrain it every week when I install new Calibre, it only takes a second - so doesn't bother me. I also run the MS firewall on Win7, I used Comodo on XP. The added value Comodo gives on Win7 is marginal and for me its not worth the overhead. BR |
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Since I don't have drag and drop problems with other programs, I strongly suspect that there's something wrong with Calibre's Windows drag & drop code. |
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08-06-2012, 09:38 PM | #19 | |
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Kudos for providing help with this issue. |
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08-07-2012, 04:55 AM | #20 | |
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Therefore the following questions remain: 1. Was there a significant change in the drag & drop event handler code and/or the shell extension code in the Windows version of Calibre in this year? 2. Does Calibre use a non-standard method to implement drag & drop that might fail under certain circumstances? |
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08-07-2012, 05:30 AM | #21 |
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The drag and drop event is never reaching calibre code. And event handling in calibre is done by Qt toolkit, I highly doubt the Qt toolkit uses a non robust D7D implementation, since it is the basis of a large number of windows programs.
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