Wrong hover icon when using drag and drop in Vista

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jjo5555
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Wrong hover icon when using drag and drop in Vista

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When dragging a file from the desktop or from a windows explorer window into XYplorer the hover icon is a "create shortcut here" icon rather than the copy or move (+) or (-) icon one should see.

The file copy/move operation behaves as expected it is just the icon that is wrong.

copy/move within XYplorer gives the icons one expects.

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Re: Wrong hover icon when using drag and drop in Vista

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I know. Never could work it out. If you look closely, it is not exactly the create shortcut icon but it has an additional dotted rectangle... whatever it means...

jjo5555
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Post by jjo5555 »

I know why.
Vista is somehow seeing XYplorer as a "list" (a virtual folder)
e.g. C:\Users\<user>\Links in Windows Exlorer is a "list".
This is is a new type of file listing bought in in Vista.

See:

http://www.istartedsomething.com/200701 ... g-drop-ui/

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Post by admin »

jjo5555 wrote:I know why.
Vista is somehow seeing XYplorer as a "list" (a virtual folder)
But it's the same wrong icon under XP.

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Post by jjo5555 »

Ahh there goes that theory then.

How odd.

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