hashmyfiles drag&drop issue

[abraxa]

there is a hash tool i liked very much when still using windows, called hashmyfiles http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/hash_my_files.html.

actually it works under wine 2.11 (x32), however, the most interresting feature does not, drag&drop files.

how to get around this issue. is it wine related?

[Bob Wya]

@abraxa

I tested hashmyfiles - it supports drag-n-drop from Wine explorer.
Started with:

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wine explorer

You won't be able to do file drag-n-drop with native Linux File Managers.
That is a hard limitation - of the current implementation of Wine.

Surely it would be far easier just to write a little BASH script to replicate the functionality of this utility?
hashmyfiles has a very basic feature set after all!

E.g. find all *.exe files in a subdirectory of current directory and find md5 hash of them...

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find . -mindepth 2 -maxdepth 2 -type f -name "*.exe" -print0 | xargs -0 md5sum

Who needs janky Windows utilities - when you've got this power under the hood?

Bob

[abraxa]

now that is interresting, as drag&drop works with nemo and several windows tools. after all, why the difference with hashmyfiles then?

you are right concerning the bash script of course, but droping 2 (or more) files on hmf for a quick visual verification is very fast + practical.

[Bob Wya]

now that is interesting, as drag&drop works with nemo and several windows tools. after all, why the difference with hashmyfiles then?

you are right concerning the bash script of course, but dropping 2 (or more) files on hmf for a quick visual verification is very fast + practical.

To follow up I had a look at the Wine code for xdnd (X drag-n-drop) today.

This patch (hack) allows HashMyFiles.exe to accept natively dropped files from Dolphin:

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--- a/dlls/winex11.drv/xdnd.c	2017-07-08 20:39:03.494519651 +0100
+++ b/dlls/winex11.drv/xdnd.c	2017-07-17 20:49:17.435612928 +0100
@@ -791,3 +791,3 @@
         FIXME("only the content aspect is supported right now\n");
-        return E_NOTIMPL;
+        return S_OK;
     }

Update: Wine bug filed - see Bug 43368 - HashMyFiles: Drag & Drop from native File Managers (Dolphin, Nautilus, ...) does not work ...

Btw you know most Web Browsers have builtin spellcheck functionality??

Bob

[abraxa]

This patch (hack) allows HashMyFiles.exe to accept natively dropped files from Dolphin:

this is awesome news, thank you very much bob