[Vm-dev] Question about dragging an image into the vm in Windows

[Mariano Martinez Peck]

Hi folks. It has been asked  a problem in Pharo mailing list and I wanted to
ask you. The summary is this:

- You are allowed to take a .image and drag it into a vm (.exe) and this
will run the VM with the dragged image

- In such case, the image is interpreted as systemAttribute 1

The problem is when you define a image in the ini file. Suppose I add this
to my ini file:

ImageFile=Contents\Resources\Pharo-1.0.image

Then, if I try to drag and drop another image to the VM, there will be an
UTF8 input error as the thing that I dragged (the image) is interpreted as
systemAttribute 2 and thus, in the method startUpAfterLogin it seems
systemAttribute 2 is the sources file. So, it tries to load such file as if
it were a text file, but as it is an image file...then the error.

The ideal would be: if I have defined a image in the file, to be allowed to
drag another one. Of course, the one I drag should be used and set as
systemAttribute 1.

Do you know how can I do that? is this fixable ?

In other hand, maybe I can do a validation and a nice error message in case
the above cannot be done.

Thanks

Mariano
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