Drag and Droping roms is broken on MacOs
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Description
Is there an existing issue for this?
- This is a bug in RetroArch frontend
- I have searched the existing issues
Description
Tried drag and dropping rom directly onto the window, it shows plus sign suggesting it's gonna work, but nothing happens
If draging into the dock icon retroarch will crash
Expected behavior
launch a game
Steps to reproduce the bug
drag and drop any rom
Version/Commit
1.20 latest one
Bisect Results
No response
Present in the nightly version
I don't know
Platform & operating system
Latest macos version
Affected Cores
No response
Environment information
Relevant log output
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reproducing drag and drop of a ROM on the latest macOS version, then inspect crash.log.txt for the dock-drop failure. Done means dropping a ROM onto the RetroArch window launches a game and dropping it on the dock icon no longer crashes.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- c, macos
- Domain
- desktop
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100