Same problem here, reported http://groups.google.com/group/gears-users/browse_thread/thread/50ea8ceea7c2101e?hl=en
Can these be merged? I can also report that it still works fine in IE 7. On Jul 15, 3:35 pm, adam <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm having trouble with Gears file drag and drop in Firefox 3.5. I'm > registering an event listener for the 'drop' event like so: > > function handleFileDrop(evt) { > > if (evt.preventDefault) { > evt.preventDefault(); > } > > var desktop = google.gears.factory.create("beta.desktop"); > var data = desktop.getDragData(evt, 'application/x-gears-files'); > var files = data && data.files; > if (files) { > // process files here > } > > return false; > > } > > dropTarget.addEventListener('drop', handleFileDrop, false); > > The event is fired and captured properly but the call to > desktop.getDragData() returns "The drag-and-drop event is invalid." > > I've tested this on CentOS 5.3 and Windows XP with the same results. > > Any ideas what might be going wrong? > > Note: this code works with gears on Firefox 3.0.x when listening for > the 'dragdrop' event. Also the script tag including gears_init.js is > in the body tag not the head.
