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Hi, Ive been having an issue with drag'n drop in mirc.

When I want to send someone a file, I usually just drag'n drop the file onto the person.
Now however, when I drag a file, and there is another window underneath the mouse cursor, this window becomes the chatwindow on top.
This almost always means the window to the recipient gets completely hidden underneath other windows before I "get it there".

Is there a way to prevent this from happening?

This is a BUG! A bug which renderers drag-n-drop semi-useless. Strangely, holding the mouse icon over the "switchbar" does not switch windows. And at present even if it did it would not fix the problem as the moment you moved the mouse from the switchbar it would switch windows again.

Aah, good, then its not just me, I couldnt quite see how this was useful, but figured it was an intentional feature

Well, you know what they say, there are no bugs, only undocumented features.

Hope this "feature" goes away sometime tho

I'd say it was intentional, who is to say you had the correct channel/query on top when you clicked on the file? I've never noticed before because I tile windows, however I can see how it could be troublesome for some.

btk

This regularly bites me as well. I have to carefully position query windows -- which for me are always temporary and overlapping my main channel windows -- by the edge of the mIRC parent window before I drag the files, else they'll be lost on the way.

I usually forget to do this the first time, even if the problem bit me minutes earlier.

I'd gladly buy another mIRC licence just to have this feature made optional, it bugs me so much. :-)

It didn't always happen, either. I can't remember when it started but earlier versions of mIRC (maybe from a couple of years ago, maybe more) didn't do it.

It'd be much better of it was done the way Windows itself does it with the taskbar. Dragging over windows shouldn't bring them to the front and if you need to bring something to the front while dragging then you hover over its taskbar(switchbar) button for a couple of seconds.

(Of course, I don't mind if there's an option for poeple who prefer the current behaviour.)

EDIT: This even happens if the query window is on the Desktop. If your mouse crosses the main mIRC window on the way then you lose the query window if it's overlapping, just like when it's a child window and overlaps another child.