Drag-and-Drop Missing?

[TheTSart]

I just upgraded to 9 from 8.5 and noticed that I can no longer drag images from Safari into Filemaker container fields. I had relied on this ability heavily in 8.5.

Is the ability gone now or do I need to change something to get it to work again?

Thanks...

Tim

[Stuart Taylor]

Have you tried drag and drop from the WebViewer to a container field?

[TheTSart]

I just tried and I can drag-and-drop from a web viewer, but it still won't allow me to drag from Safari, which is what I need.

[Stuart Taylor]

Did it work with Web Viewer

The web Viewer is built with Safari Webkit

You could build the browser into your solution as a workaround.

What are you trying to do?

[TheTSart]

(Yes, it did work with web viewer)

I have been using this particular database for years, probably since FM version 4 or 5.

I just need to put product images into the database. Having an integrated web viewer really doesn't mesh with what I need.

If I find something I need to put in the database, there is no guarantee that any particular field will result in that image being located-that's just one reason in particular.

I just dug out 8.5 and it still works with Safari drag-and-drop... I think I will just revert to my backups and start using it again. I really should have played with 9 before I upgraded, but I've never had these type of really strange problems after an upgrade of it before.

Thanks for your help!

[TheTSart]

I just wanted to note in case anyone else is having this same problem... I updated to Mac OS 10.4.11 today, which includes Safari 3, and the problem is fixed!

[Lee Smith]

There has been some discussion on this release of Tiger, and one of them concerned the loss of preferences. It kind of upset the users.

In addition, Safari 3 did not play well with FileMaker 8.5 and 9., Personally, I had one file that had several Web Viewers in it, and only one of the viewers would crash FileMaker.

Anyway, I would appreciate hearing back from you if you do experience problems.

TIA

Lee

[TheTSart]

There has been some discussion on this release of Tiger, and one of them concerned the loss of preferences. It kind of upset the users.

In addition, Safari 3 did not play well with FileMaker 8.5 and 9., Personally, I had one file that had several Web Viewers in it, and only one of the viewers would crash FileMaker.

Anyway, I would appreciate hearing back from you if you do experience problems.

TIA

Lee

Lee, are you referring to preferences in FM? If so, my preferences seem to have made the transition just fine. I installed 10.4.11 last night, and have been using FM 9 all day today and have not noticed any problems or anything that has changed.

In fact, one other benefit of 10.4.11 is that FM seems much faster on my machine.

[Lee Smith]

They didn't itemize it, they just said that some of their preferences were lost. I took it to mean that it was Safari, or mail. I will go back and question which ones they were talking about.

Lee

Here is the original post.

A word of caution to OSX 10.4.x users:

Today's update to 10.4.11 may wipe out a bunch of preferences, including your startup applications.

Any preference panes you have set to start on log in may also have to be reset.

Matt

Edited November 16, 2007 by Guest

[Lee Smith]

followed up with:

I had to rebuild my startup items list, and some third-party pref panes (e.g., Default Folder, TypeIt4Me) were not already on as they should be.

HTH

Lee

[TheTSart]

Just checked and my startup items are as they were.

I have Flip4Mac, Growl, MenuMeters, Screenshots, Version Cue, etc. and they look fine to after the upgrade too.

Overall, I'm really pleased with 10.4.11. If nothing else, Safari is super fast, and the slow bookmark menu problem has finally been fixed.