[digiKam-users] Copy full path to physical file?

[Sky Diver]

Dragging and Dropping into Sublime Text evidently opens the image for
display (news to me - I did not know Sublime Text is capable of that).
When I drag & drop to Notepad, the binary data is display as text. The
JPG header is easily recognizable: "ÿØÿáXéExif  MM ..."
I think it's safe to conclude that on Windows, QT is pasting file data
(in the form of an OLE object) and not just the file path.

On Sun, Apr 29, 2018 at 12:59 PM, Gilles Caulier
<caulier.gilles at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hum,
>
> What's about to drag and drop icon-view items to a text editor ? The way to
> pass info from DK to target application is a little bit different.
>
> Does it work for you ? What do you see in text editor exactly ?
>
> Gilles Caulier
>
> 2018-04-27 23:22 GMT+02:00 Sky Diver <skydivergm at gmail.com>:
>>
>> Pasting as "Help > Components Information > Copy to Clipboard" indeed
>> works but I'm pretty certain the copying method is different than
>> copying an image via the thumbnails view.
>>
>> I don't have the code compiled but I dug as deep as reaching
>> DragDropViewImplementation::copy()
>> IMO the mimeData() in Windows is different than Linux.
>>
>> To double-check this I installed a Clipboard Viewer app and when
>> copying text I see that indeed text is being copied to the cilpboard,
>> but when copying an image via digikam as described above, an OLE
>> object is being copied.
>> OLD objects may not be pasted into a text editor as plain text.
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 4:30 PM, Gilles Caulier
>> <caulier.gilles at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > There is no reason to see a failure while copy and paste under Windows.
>> > We
>> > use Qt MimeData encapsulation to clipboard and it must be portable.
>> >
>> > Or perhaps we have a default encoding problem as explained here :
>> >
>> >
>> > https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47443545/cut-and-paste-clipboard-exchange-between-qt-application-and-windows-explorer
>> >
>> > Just to be sure, go to "Help/Components Info" dialog for DK, and press
>> > "Copy
>> > to Clipboard" button. Look if clipboard can be copied to a text editor.
>> >
>> > Gilles Caulier
>> >
>> > 2018-04-27 15:02 GMT+02:00 Sky Diver <skydivergm at gmail.com>:
>> >>
>> >> Thank you rutile.
>> >>
>> >> @Gilles Caulier, evidently the behavior is not consistent across
>> >> platforms.
>> >> I tried pasting the copied file into Windows Explorer (file system UI,
>> >> similar to Nautilus for example) and the physical file is being
>> >> pasted.
>> >>
>> >> Are you familiar with a different way to copy the entire path to
>> >> clipboard?
>> >> If not, then what's the correct way of turning this into a
>> >> feature-request?
>> >>
>> >> Thank you.
>> >>
>> >> On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 12:52 AM, rutile <rutile at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> > Linux, 5.8.0
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > --
>> >> > Sent from:
>> >> > http://digikam.1695700.n4.nabble.com/digikam-users-f1735189.html
>> >
>> >
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