FormDropFiles from the administrator

[BIT]

If you run the program from the administrator, the function stops working, what could be the reason?

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1. procedure TForm1.FormDropFiles(Sender: TObject; const FileNames: array of string);
2. var
3.   FileName: string;
4. begin
5.   for FileName in FileNames do
6.   begin
7.  ShowMessage(FileName);
8.   end;
9. end;    

[Thaddy]

Platform? Bitness?, OS?, full small example?

[BIT]

Platform? Bitness?, OS?, full small example?

windows 8.1 64 bit

[jamie]

I assume what you mean "Stops working" is that the function/Event never gets called?

 For me it works however, I am still using older Lazarus 2.0.4 with 3.0.4 compiler most of the time for existing projects because the compiler does things for me that newer compiler broke.

  But that does not mean this is your issue. You could have a shell file naming with system links in there causing issues to accumulate the list.

  Also, maybe the drop message is being filtered?

[Soner]

This is normal behaviour at windows.
Start notepad oder cmd.exe as admininistrator and dag drop files from explorer, they will not react.

[jamie]

really?

 There must be a filter setting because I am logged in as Admin here and it works.

 This is Windows 10 Pro.

 But I will say this however, I've seen the shell return different links while in Admin mode verses in a normal user mode.

 After thinking about this, maybe he is talking about normal user mode and running apps "As Administrator"? I think the default setting is to not allow that among other features.

[PascalDragon]

If you run the program from the administrator, the function stops working, what could be the reason?

You can not drag and drop between non-elevated and elevated applications (or applications run in a different user context).

[Soner]

I have also Windows 10 pro and i have administrator account. I started the applications "run as admin".

Without "run as admin" your applications start normal, even when you have administrator account.
Start your editor from startmenu and edit some textfiles from windows folder you can't save it. You must start it as administrator. or you have disabled uac.

i think it is security thing.

[BIT]

After thinking about this, maybe he is talking about normal user mode and running apps "As Administrator"? I think the default setting is to not allow that among other features.

Yes I do so

[Remy Lebeau]

You can not drag and drop between non-elevated and elevated applications (or applications run in a different user context).

You can drag from a higher-privilege process to a lower-privilege process just fine.  But UAC will block drags from a lower-privilege process to a higher-privilege unless the latter explicitly allows the following messages via ChangeWindowMessageFilter/Ex():

WM_COPYDATA ($004A)
WM_COPYGLOBALDATA ($0049)
WM_DROPFILES ($0233)

[PascalDragon]

You can not drag and drop between non-elevated and elevated applications (or applications run in a different user context).

You can drag from a higher-privilege process to a lower-privilege process just fine.  But UAC will block drags from a lower-privilege process to a higher-privilege unless the latter explicitly allows the following messages via ChangeWindowMessageFilter/Ex():

WM_COPYDATA ($004A)
WM_COPYGLOBALDATA ($0049)
WM_DROPFILES ($0233)

Gotta admit that I didn't have the need for that yet, so I didn't research a solution. But at least there is one that BIT can use.