Support dragging snippets from Firefox

[TCPlomp]

Firefox is not publishing the PNG data that contains a snippet inside the Drag and Drop info, however the info is stored inside CFSTR_FILEDESCRIPTOR (source) it would be very helpfull if LabVIEW supported this as well.

TOn

[Jim_Kring]

I recall that SimonH, the fellow at NI who invented the snippets feature, created a plugin for the JKI RCF that converts the snippet URL (free label text that shows up when your Drag & Drop a snippet from FireFox) into the actual code.  I'm not sure if he shared this, but we should ask him to 🙂

[GregSands]

One option is here - I posted a modification to a RCF plugin which converts a URL into code.   There's no checking for validity or errors though!

[A-T-R]

Workaround:

(Drag and) Drop the snippet e.g. on the desktop and from there drag & drop it on the block diagram!

[SimonH]

Looks like someone beat me to publishing the RCF version.  Here's a quick drop plugin to do the same thing:

http://decibel.ni.com/content/docs/DOC-6229

[G-Money]

Is there any chance of supporting this natively or are the plugins and moving it to the desktop a proper workaround?

[TCPlomp]

No, I still think that native support should be used (allthough I switched from Firefox to Opera). Using the desktop is quite a bad workaround.