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#1503 Scite opens infinite dialog boxes when trying to save a file
This happens on two occasions: when trying to save to a directory with non ascii characters like the block character as seen in the image or when saving to a system folder or one that the user does not have ownership.
The dialog boxes kept popping up until the comp started to hang. I managed to close about 20 of them and kill scite with powershell.
Image when saving to folder with non ascii path
the folder in explorer with the block drawing character in its path
inside that folder(sorry for posting images this way, there's no option for uploading multiple files.)
when editing a file in windows folder
the result. btw, i'm using version 3.2.5 and also have 3.3.1 but haven't tested it there. I think the results will be the same. I don't want to install it over the current one.
Can't reproduce with the path "C:\u\hg\pending\Encoding\██ Scite Pitfall ██\Scite can't touch me.txt" on Windows 7. The particular block drawing character may be important.
For the Windows directory I see a warning about needing permission to save there.
What do you mean by important? To scite or explorer? Btw other editors like notepad can save there. Sooo... It's not a bug?
The '█' character you used may be different to the one I used and that difference may have caused the failure. You only showed pictures of the file name. Nowhere have you reported the file name as text so that it can be checked.
Run this.
It will create a folder with the drawing character as part of its name
and writes a file in it. Try to open in the folder in scite and you should
get the 'infinite' dialog boxes.(Make sure you have task manager or powershell open ;)
This is a list of the code points for the drawing characters which you can
enter manually in windows using a key combination of ALT+219 or any other
number in from 0 to 256
[9500, 9508, 9516, 9524, 9532, 9552, 9553, 9554, 9555, 9556, 9557, 9558, 9559,
9560, 9561, 9562, 9563, 9564, 9565, 9566, 9567, 9568, 9569, 9570, 9571, 9572,
9573, 9574, 9575, 9576, 9577, 9578, 9579, 9580, 9600, 9604, 9608, 9612, 9616,
9617, 9618, 9619]
import os
fname="Note the semigraph,"+unichr(9608)
os.mkdir(fname)
os.chdir(fname)
open("dummy_file.txt","w").write("You won't see me in scite!!!!")
The weird thing is that if you name your file with a U+9608 character or any other character on that list, scite will open the file( but won't show the original contents) and save it happily. It'll display the drawing character as a &brevbar; in the tabbar.
Hope that helped.
Can't reproduce with SciTE 3.2.5 or 3.3.4 with an empty user properties and startup script.
Hi, again. I found the cause of the problem. I had earlier installed a SciTE patch from a russian site http://scite.ruteam.ru/scite/sborki/scite-ru-board and installed Scite 3.2.5 over it. I only had to uninstall scite again and then install it again. I'm sure this time you'll get the same result. Although SciTe only displays the contents of the file when the file is dragged to it or opened from the menu. It still doesn't display the contents when I use the 'Open with Scite' option. At least it works.
Hail SciTE!!!!
Forget what I said earlier, I have really found the cause of the problem this time. Please try it.
Reproduce:
Uncomment the #save.on.timer=20 option then try to save a file that you do not have permissions(e.g the ones in system32) or the original dummy_file.txt(don't open it in scite or drag it, open it from the context menu in explorer). You should get the many dialogs. Give it a try, please.
Fix committed as [b60463].
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Commit: [b60463]