m-pierce

It is extremely sporadic for me. First, I had this problem consistently (same build of Windows as others here). Then I installed a few Windows patches and rebooted and the problem went away for several days. Then I had to reboot for iTunes updates. After the reboot, the problem came back and I was unable to rearrange the tabs again. After reading the other responses here this morning, I decided to reboot again, just for kicks. The problem is now gone again. Not very helpful, I admit. Sorry.

I don't really know what to make of this either, and I can understand why you are having a hard time reproducing it. I have tested from two different Windows 10 machines, both updated to the 1607 build. My home machine is Windows 10 Pro, and my work machine is Windows 10 Enterprise. Both are running the latest 64-bit version of RDM. The problem with rearranging tabs and dragging objects in the navigation panel has not happen on my home machine so far. It was giving me serious grief, but I installed the very latest update for Windows 10, rebooted, and now it has gone away, at least temporarily, on my work machine as well. It acts very much like something is interrupting the mouse click and hold operation, which prevents you from dragging anything.

FWIW, I have seen this behavior before in Windows 8 (maybe even 7), but it had nothing to do with RDM. I would occasionally have this problem where I was unable to drag icons on my desktop around. Very similar symptoms. So much so that the first time I experienced this in RDM, I thought it was the same issue. But the workaround for the issue in Windows 7/8 was to use a combination of changing the focus on windows and then hitting the ESC button. I actually found a blog or KB article that described this problem and the fix/workaround. However, this is something different. Hitting ESC doesn't fix it.

I will certainly post more as I can if I find anything useful. Good luck with this.

Add me to the list of people experiencing this. The first time I noticed this was after switching to the 64-bit version in order to work-around the issue with Remote Desktop Gateways (fix mentioned in a different thread). I thought it was a bug with x64 and didn't bother trying the x86 version to verify. Now I see that this bug exists across both x86 and x64 versions.

That said, I have been able to fix/reproduce it at will. By fix, I mean get it working very briefly in a somewhat reproducible manner. Here is what I observed.

With RDM in the foreground and in focus, I try to move a tab or a connection by clicking and dragging. It does not work, just as others have observed. Next, I press the Windows key and then very quickly click and drag the tab/connection. Sometimes, this will allow me to drag the tab. It doesn't work every time - maybe 1/10 times. But it might give you guys an idea where to look in the code. When you press the Windows key (or CTRL+ESC), focus changes to the Windows menu ever so briefly and then switches back when you click on the tab to drag it. Hope this helps.

Matt

I just want to confirm both the bug and the fix. This was driving me crazy all day today. Took me a while just to figure out that it was RDM and not RDP in general. Then I was sad that I would have to temporarily give up RDM while a solution was figured out. And then I found the solution right here in this forum. I'm using RDM Enterprise, and simply switching to the 64-bit version took care of things. Thanks for the work-around.

Matt