Drag-and-drop images from Iron browser not working

buzzbuzz68 · 07-29-2012, 10:41 AM

I switched webbrowser from Firefox to Iron (a Chrome version without all the comunication to Google). From Firefox it's no problem to drag a picture to an e-book in Calibre when editing it. From Iron it just doesn't work. When I drag something to the desktop, both from Firefox and from Iron, the result is the same, getting the picture saved on the desktop.
Any idea why it won't work towards Iron

kovidgoyal · 07-29-2012, 12:18 PM

When I developed that feature I tested it with firefox, IE and chrome. I dont have any idea why it doesn't work with iron. It's something I care to look into personally, but if you want to do so, the relevant code is in dnd.py in the calibre source code. You might get some useful debug output by running calibre in debug mode (right click on preferences to do that).

buzzbuzz68 · 07-30-2012, 02:10 AM

As I'm no developer at all, I ran Calibre in debug mode and got a log which I hope means something to you. The log is:

Spoiler:

Thanks for the fantastic program and this quick support. Very much appreciated.

DoctorOhh · 07-30-2012, 02:52 AM

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kovidgoyal · 07-30-2012, 02:55 AM

Your browser appears to not be presenting the image as a standard image mime type in the drag and drop event. I'll add some code that will try to detect the URL and download the image from the web server directly, but that may or may not work, depending on whether the site you are drag and dropping from allows direct access to the image resources without a login and uses plain urls for images. I suggest switching to a browser with a non broken D&D implementation.

buzzbuzz68 · 07-31-2012, 03:26 AM

Thanks Kovid, for the quick checkup.
I do still have another browser available, so I can live with this. Should you put some extra code in then I'll be more than happy to test if this works or not of course. And if not, it's no biggy. Thanks again for this great program of yours

.

By the way, doing a little googling I found this. It's a bug report in Chromium that looks like it might be what's the problem here (as mentioned, I'm no developer, so I can't say for sure).

07-29-2012, 10:41 AM	#1
buzzbuzz68 Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2012 Location: The Netherlands Device: Pocketbook 360	Drag-and-drop images from Iron browser not working I switched webbrowser from Firefox to Iron (a Chrome version without all the comunication to Google). From Firefox it's no problem to drag a picture to an e-book in Calibre when editing it. From Iron it just doesn't work. When I drag something to the desktop, both from Firefox and from Iron, the result is the same, getting the picture saved on the desktop. Any idea why it won't work towards Iron

07-30-2012, 02:10 AM	#3
buzzbuzz68 Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2012 Location: The Netherlands Device: Pocketbook 360	As I'm no developer at all, I ran Calibre in debug mode and got a log which I hope means something to you. The log is: Spoiler: calibre Debug log calibre 0.8.62 Windows-7-6.1.7601-SP1 Windows ('Windows', '7', '6.1.7601') Python 2.7.3 Windows: ('7', '6.1.7601', 'SP1', 'Multiprocessor Free') Starting up... Started up in 6.45 seconds with 10510 books Debugging DND event application/x-qt-windows-mime;value="DragContext" '\x00\x00\x00\x00\x01\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\ x00\x00\x00\x00' application/x-qt-windows-mime;value="DragImageBits" '\x90\x00\x00\x00\xc7\x00\x00\x00P\x00\x00\x00g\x0 0\x00\x00\x8d\x08\x05\x16\xff\xff\xff\xff\x8f\x8f\ x8e\x8f\x8e\x8e\x8e\x8f\x8e\x8e\x8e\x8f\x8e\x8e\x8 e\x8f\x8d\x8d\x8d\x8f\x88\x88\x88\x8f\x8d\x8d\x8d\ x8f\x8a\x8a\x8a\x8f\x8a\x8a\x8a\x8f\x8c\x8c\x8c\x8 f\x8a\x8a\x8a\x8f\x8c\x8c\x8c\x8f\x8c\x8c\x8c\x8f\ application/x-qt-windows-mime;value="FileGroupDescriptorW" '\x01\x00\x00\x00\x00\x80\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\ x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x0 0\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\ x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x0 0\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\ x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x0 application/x-qt-windows-mime;value="FileContents" '' text/html '<!--StartFragment--><img src="http://images-02.delcampe-static.net/img_large/auction/000/077/118/577_001.jpg?v=1" id="il_fi" height="651" width="471" style="padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 8px; padding-bottom: 8px; "><!--EndFragment-->' text/x-moz-url u'http://images-02.delcampe-static.net/img_large/auction/000/077/118/577_001.jpg?v=1\n\x00' text/uri-list 'http://images-02.delcampe-static.net/img_large/auction/000/077/118/577_001.jpg?v=1' application/x-qt-windows-mime;value="UniformResourceLocatorW" 'h\x00t\x00t\x00p\x00:\x00/\x00/\x00i\x00m\x00a\x00g\x00e\x00s\x00-\x000\x002\x00.\x00d\x00e\x00l\x00c\x00a\x00m\x00p \x00e\x00-\x00s\x00t\x00a\x00t\x00i\x00c\x00.\x00n\x00e\x00t \x00/\x00i\x00m\x00g\x00_\x00l\x00a\x00r\x00g\x00e\x00/\x00a\x00u\x00c\x00t\x00i\x00o\x00n\x00/\x000\x000\x000\x00/\x000\x0 text/plain 'http://images-02.delcampe-static.net/img_large/auction/000/077/118/577_001.jpg?v=1' Firefox rurl: None None URLS: [u'http://images-02.delcampe-static.net/img_large/auction/000/077/118/577_001.jpg?v=1'] Paths: [u'img_large\\auction\\000\\077\\118\\577_001.jpg#'] Thanks for the fantastic program and this quick support. Very much appreciated. Last edited by DoctorOhh; 07-30-2012 at 02:51 AM. Reason: Added spoiler tags

07-30-2012, 02:55 AM	#5
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,353 Karma: 27182818 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	Your browser appears to not be presenting the image as a standard image mime type in the drag and drop event. I'll add some code that will try to detect the URL and download the image from the web server directly, but that may or may not work, depending on whether the site you are drag and dropping from allows direct access to the image resources without a login and uses plain urls for images. I suggest switching to a browser with a non broken D&D implementation. Last edited by kovidgoyal; 07-30-2012 at 02:58 AM.

07-31-2012, 03:26 AM	#6
buzzbuzz68 Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2012 Location: The Netherlands Device: Pocketbook 360	Thanks Kovid, for the quick checkup. I do still have another browser available, so I can live with this. Should you put some extra code in then I'll be more than happy to test if this works or not of course. And if not, it's no biggy. Thanks again for this great program of yours . By the way, doing a little googling I found this. It's a bug report in Chromium that looks like it might be what's the problem here (as mentioned, I'm no developer, so I can't say for sure). Last edited by buzzbuzz68; 07-31-2012 at 03:39 AM.

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07-29-2012, 12:18 PM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,353 Karma: 27182818 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	When I developed that feature I tested it with firefox, IE and chrome. I dont have any idea why it doesn't work with iron. It's something I care to look into personally, but if you want to do so, the relevant code is in dnd.py in the calibre source code. You might get some useful debug output by running calibre in debug mode (right click on preferences to do that).

07-30-2012, 02:52 AM	#4
DoctorOhh US Navy, Retired Posts: 9,896 Karma: 13806776 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: North Carolina Device: Icarus Illumina XL HD, Kindle PaperWhite SE 11th Gen	Moderator Notice Added Spoiler tags to post above as part of best practices for calibre's forums.

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