I saw a reference to desktop.getDragData returning null for the files list in a drop event handler under IE 7.
( http://code.google.com/p/gears/issues/detail?id=902 ). I'm seeing it under win 7, IE 8, with gears as downloaded today. Suspect there's a resource leak. I have been playing with this in development mode. Webpage has a drop zone, and I keep dropping files onto it as I tweak the back and front ends. File sized doesn't seem to matter. (I use 8 byte files for some things, and 300MB files for others.) What I see is that everything works as expected - until the call starts failing. Usual javascript error about object expected. Refreshing the page does NOT make it go away. Starting a new instance of the browser does. This would seem to indicate there's something consumed that persists across page loads. I would speculate that a malloc is failing and returning null - but that's just a guess. It's frequent enough that I have an alert for the case where either getDragData or it's pointer to files is null. A breakpoint there doesn't make anything jump out at me - by then, the damage, whatever it is, is done. Hope this helps the cause.
