[texworks] Drag Drop - Text or Image \includegraphics{blablah.jpg}

[Paul A Norman]

>Hm, you're right that opening binary files (in particular images) in a
>text editor isn't useful. Could you please file an issue report on
>Google Code?

Sure, wasn't certain about non project members writing stuff in there.
No worries,
Paul

On 14 April 2010 00:38, Stefan Löffler <st.loeffler at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Am 2010-04-13 11:02, schrieb Paul A Norman:
>> At present when a graphic is drag dropped onto a TeXWorks editor, a
>> new wondow is opened up sucessfully displaying the binary file.
>>
>
> Hm, you're right that opening binary files (in particular images) in a
> text editor isn't useful. Could you please file an issue report on
> Google Code?
>
> However, for me inclusion of both images (via \includegraphics) and text
> (verbatim) works if I modify the drop action from copy (the default) to
> move or link. For me, this means holding down shift or ctrl+shift (but
> this may be system specific). In any case, direct inclusion should be
> the intended (default) behavior for all files except those supported by
> the editor/previewer (currently, these are .tex and .pdf).
>
> HTH
> Stefan
>