273248 - Drag and drop of image from Firefox to WordPad doesn't work

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 234921

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Timok]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

If you drag and drop the image from

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B00006TLTP.08.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

to an empty document in WordPad you will get:

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B00006TLTP.08.LZZZZZZZ.jpg
The image “http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B00006TLTP.08.LZZZZZZZ.jpg”

If instead you use the right-click menu on the image and do "Copy Image" then
"Paste" in WordPad, it works perfectly: the image is inserted.

Of course, it works fine in both cases with IE.

In order to investigate I wrote the following VB.Net code to save the image when
dropping it onto my control:

    Private Sub pctCover_DragDrop(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As
System.Windows.Forms.DragEventArgs) Handles pctCover.DragDrop
        Console.WriteLine("pctCover_DragDrop")
        If e.Data.GetDataPresent(DataFormats.FileDrop, True) Then
            Dim sourceArray As String() = e.Data.GetData(DataFormats.FileDrop,
False)
            Dim source As String = sourceArray(0)
            Console.WriteLine("Source: " & source)
            FileCopy(source, "toto.jpg")
            Console.WriteLine("Image saved")
            pctCover.Image = Image.FromFile(source)
            Console.WriteLine("Image shown")
        End If
    End Sub

When I drag from IE, I get the image displayed and saved and the ouput:

pctCover_DragDrop
Source: C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Local Settings\Temporary
Internet Files\Content.IE5\8VY5AVMD\B00006TLTP.08.LZZZZZZZ[1].jpg
Image saved
Image shown

When I do the same from Firefox, the file saved is 0 bytes big, th eimage is not
displayed and the console reads:

pctCover_DragDrop
Source: C:\DOCUME~1\ADMINI~1\LOCALS~1\TEMP\B00006TLTP.08.LZZZZZZZ-15.jpg
Image saved

So is it possible to drag and drop an image from Firefox ?

Thanks,
Timok

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open any URL with an image. Take the one above for example.
2.Open wordPad
3.Drag and drop image onto WordPad

Actual Results:  
Instead of image inserted, we get the text:
http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B00006TLTP.08.LZZZZZZZ.jpg
The image “http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B00006TLTP.08.LZZZZZZZ.jpg”


Expected Results:  
It should have shown the image itself (like IE does), or at the very least, it
should have inserted a link to the image.

Comment 1

[charon me]

(Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0)
When I drag the pic and drop it onto the text in wordpad, i get this:

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B00006TLTP.08.LZZZZZZZ.jpg
The image “http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B00006TLTP.08.LZZZZZZZ.jpg”
cannot be displayed, because it contains errors.

(it displayes the image when dragged from IE)

however, when i drop it on the toolbar, it displays the jpg file in text mode.
(the same as IE)

Comment 2

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 234921 ***