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Crash when canceling drag of dockable window

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Martijn Coppoolse
2007-01-29
2012-11-13

  • Martijn Coppoolse

    Martijn Coppoolse - 2007-01-29

    Just downloaded v4.0 of Np++, it's looking nice. I especially like the toggle buttons for the various dockable windows.

    However, there's still a few things that could be improved (as usual :-)), and one severe bug:

    * If I start dragging one of the dockable windows, then change my mind and press Escape to cancel the dragging, I expect the dragged window to remain in place where it was before I started dragging.  However, Notepad++ simply crashes when I do that, losing all my hard (ahem) work.

    * Another little bug is that when I close the Function list window with its little 'X' button, the corresponding toolbar button doesn't reflect the changed state.

    * And the Hex editor doesn't work at all anymore.  It does show up, but only shows one line at a time, and displays the same information no matter which line I select.

    I'm running Windows XP SP2, 32-bits Home edition.

    * As someone else already mentioned, could it be possible to stick to one font for the UI?
    Most notably, the Explorer plug-in uses MS Sans Serif all over, which is a bitmap font and so a) doesn't scale well, b) isn't ClearType-enabled. Please replace that by 'Microsoft Sans Serif', which looks identical at low resolutions, but is a full-fledged TrueType font with hints, and so scales well _and_ supports ClearType.  Or better yet, use the font specified by the user in the system Display Settings.
    The shortcut mapper also uses a different font (or at least a different font size) than the rest of the program.

    * It would also be nice if the installer didn't overwrite the NativeLang.xml file in my %AppData% folder.  Heaven would be where my NativeLang.xml was merged with the new one... :-)

     

    • Nobody/Anonymous

      Nobody/Anonymous - 2007-01-30

      Hi,

      * If I start dragging one of the dockable windows, then change my mind and press Escape to cancel the dragging, I expect the dragged window to remain in place where it was before I started dragging. However, Notepad++ simply crashes when I do that, losing all my hard (ahem) work.

      Yes, I could confirm it, too. The main problem is here, escape shouldn't close docked or floated plugins! Additionally, there is no implementation to except dragging of dockable windows with escape. Here I have to invastigate a little bit more time.

      But I ask myself: We have RCs for two weeks. There where some errors found, but not so big one. Why you didn't play before with our releases ;).

      * Another little bug is that when I close the Function list window with its little 'X' button, the corresponding toolbar button doesn't reflect the changed state.

      When did you install the new version? It seems, that you have different versions of Notepad++ and my plugins. For me it works perfectly.

      * And the Hex editor doesn't work at all anymore. It does show up, but only shows one line at a time, and displays the same information no matter which line I select.

      Interesting, also here. For me it works perfect! Could you send me your binaries to have a look on the differences?

      * As someone else already mentioned, could it be possible to stick to one font for the UI?
      Most notably, the Explorer plug-in uses MS Sans Serif all over, which is a bitmap font and so a) doesn't scale well, b) isn't ClearType-enabled. Please replace that by 'Microsoft Sans Serif'.

      I try to implement this in next release of Explorer Plugin.

      Best Regards
      Jens

       

    • DV

      DV - 2007-01-30

      vor0nwe wrote:
      > However, Notepad++ simply crashes when I do that

      Confirming. It seems to be a wrong pointer reference.