Dragging and dropping in rich text example app

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Robert_Stoffers | 2020-05-11 08:57:06 UTC | #1

This works dragging and dropping from Chrome, however it doesn't work on Firefox for me. Instead, u.toLocalFile() returns a blank string with Firefox.

https://www.pythonguis.com/examples/megasolid-idiom-rich-text-editor/

Robert_Stoffers | 2020-05-11 09:02:44 UTC | #2

Its actually stranger then this. In both browsers, if I drag and drop the image of the application above from this webpage it fails with a blank image. However, if I say go to Google and say do an image search drag and drop works with both browsers.

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