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    I use to work on my photos with Zoner Photo and draw the ones to be worked on either into photoshop or ICE which are as an icon open on the bottom windows bar. Then these open and I can reduce them again to continue with Zoner Photo. But the new version of ICE cannot be used that way. One has to decide from within that program and load the photos. That's a disadvantage and retreat due to too much thinking in that touch thinking that is driving Microsoft too much off many useful and meanwhile tradition approaches.

    Zoner Photo can do panoramas, too. But are difficult to make so I draw those shots into ICE or Photoshop. But ICE is a bit better in that than Photoshop.

    Thus, the common feature to draw a picture (or file) into another program is vital and losing it is poor loss.

    Saturday, February 7, 2015 7:53 AM

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    I'm with Nathaniel here, I don't quite understand the issue. Drag & drop is still available, as well as the command line to specify files when launching ICE.
    Saturday, February 7, 2015 5:12 PM

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    If I'm understanding you correctly, StoffelsKünstler, your complaint is that you cannot drag and drop photos directly into ICE 2?
    I had wondered whether that would be the case but had not yet tested it.

    I have both ICE 1 and ICE 2 installed and pinned to my Windows taskbar next to each other in Windows 7.

    First I tried dragging a selection of photos from Windows Explorer onto the icon for ICE 2 and it did not open.
    Then I tested this with the pinned ICE 1 icon and it did not open.

    I thought, "Perhaps I should open the program first.", so I did so, opening both ICE 1 and ICE 2.
    I then went back to Windows Explorer (maximized and dragged my selected photos back onto the button on the taskbar representing both versions of ICE. Neither one of them came to focus and started working on the photos.

    After that, I thought that perhaps you meant that you could not open ICE 2 at all and just drag the photos into the open window, so I tried that with ICE 2 (since we know that it works in ICE 1). Surprise! This was a success! So you do not really need to use the menus inside of ICE 2 to select photos to begin stitching.

    If you drag a group of photos into an open ICE 2 window, then it will know that you wish to create a panorama from photos and take you to the first step. You do need to click 'Next' one time to get the stitching started, but while this may be an annoyance, it is not the end of the world either.

    Similarly, if you drag a video into ICE 2, it automatically opens the video panorama wizard that allows you to select portions of video frames to preserve in the panorama or simply begin stitching without any selections.

    As one final test, I made copied the shortcuts to ICE 1 and ICE 2 to the desktop and dragged the photos from Explorer onto the desktop shortcuts to ICE 1 and ICE 2. Neither one of these opened the program with the photos in them, which I am honestly quite puzzled by.

    There may be some Windows security setting which is currently preventing me from launching any program by dragging a file that it reads onto the shortcut to it.

    If anyone else has different results, please post them here.

    There is no effect without a cause.

    Saturday, February 7, 2015 12:32 PM
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    I'm with Nathaniel here, I don't quite understand the issue. Drag & drop is still available, as well as the command line to specify files when launching ICE.
    Saturday, February 7, 2015 5:12 PM
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    There may be some Windows security setting which is currently preventing me from launching any program by dragging a file that it reads onto the shortcut to it.

    I can reproduce this behavior with the shortcuts created by the installer. If you manually create a shortcut to ICE.exe in the installation folder you can drag & drop files onto the shortcut and drop files on the pinned shortcut as well. It does not work with the default shortcut, however. Probably has to do with feature advertising in Windows Installer, see https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/vstudio/en-US/b57f1d84-9b0c-4c29-b140-0555f92ffed8/target-field-disabled-in-shortcut-created-in-deployment-project.

    By the way, another little bug: try passing a path to a non-existing file via command-line to ICE and then stitch.



    • Edited by Chrysler Saturday, February 7, 2015 5:44 PM
    • Proposed as answer by NateLawrence Thursday, February 26, 2015 11:32 PM
    Saturday, February 7, 2015 5:31 PM