Submitted by WayneK on 2021/05/06 11:41

When I drag a link into InfoQube, it captures the website name, the article title, etc.  This is a very handy feature that saves a lot of manual typing.

The only issue is that it doesn't work reliably.  Maybe 1/4 of the time, instead of capture the article title, it shows the name of the InfoQube file.  On second try, it mostly works, but not always.  Sometimes I can drag 5, 6, 7 times and it won't capture the title no matter what, so I end up having to type it out myself.  Sometimes it gets on a streak where it fails every time, many times in a row.  Then it goes back to working again.

It's not a huge problem but it would definitely save some time if it worked more reliably.

Does anyone have any insight into why it fails or what can be done to make it work more reliably?  I can't discern a pattern except maybe sometimes it helps to refresh the page, but this is not a reliable solution.

Wayne

Win10

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Hi Wayne,

On drag-drop, IQ gets the caption of the active window. What most likely happens is that when you drag the link, you hover over the Windows Taskbar or some UI elements of IQ (notably the Tabs) which moves the focus to IQ. Hence the IQ window caption is captured.

I'll see what I can do to avoid that, but I'm pretty sure that this is the issue. Try it

HTH !

Pierre

Took me a while to test because it's been working, but finally got a test case of each.

1) Correctly capturing link title. 

Found a site where drag was working correctly (link title captured). 

I tried dragging it in different ways across the screen from top to bottom.  Could not get it to stop working, no matter which drag path I used.  Conclusion: drag path does not affect whether it works.

2) Not capturing link title. 

Found a site where drag was not working correctly (title not captured).

I tried different drag paths but could not find one that worked.  Seems to confirm the drag path is not the cause.

Since #2 failed no matter how many times I tried it, I wondered if it was something about the website itself, in which case I could give you the link to check out. 

I opened the same webpage in a new Firefox tab.  Again, drag failed.  But on the 3rd try it started working, and worked every time after that.

I went back to the first Firefox tab, and now it was working correctly there, too, despite failing 10+ times in a row previously.

So I couldn't figure out a trigger but am pretty sure it's not related to the drag path.

Wayne

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