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martinsteel
4 years agoFrequent Contributor
Drag and drop losing characters
Dragging and dropping usernames and passwords sometimes loses characters. This is most reproducible (50%+) in remote desktop windows but also occasionally happens in browsers. Normally seems to be on...
martinsteel
3 years agoFrequent Contributor
Hi ag_mike_d
Drag and drop is working much more reliably on applications running locally on the computer, the issue of it consistently messing up the first couple of characters there seems to be fixed.
For dragging in to a remote desktop I'd say the failure rate is around 90% and what you end up with can be anything from
* Parts of password missing
* Password out of order e.g. ABCDEFGHIJKLMN becomes HIJKLMNABCDEFG
* Nothing appears at all
* Focus jumps to another form field
* Garbled text e.g. Kanji characters for an ASCII password (this one is rare)
I'm sometimes working on remote desktop over an extremely high latency link (0.5-1 second RTT via geostationary satellite), it never works on these. Most of these issues look like a timing issue, along the lines of characters being input before focus has been correctly set.
On the plus side type in window is working much better now adays so provides a work around in a lot of cases although less convenient to use and doesn't work in every application e.g. doesn't work at all in VMware Remote Console.