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AHKExternalLexer.dll crashes with 5.9

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Fred Seltzer
2011-04-26
2012-11-14

  • Fred Seltzer

    Fred Seltzer - 2011-04-26

    AHKExternalLexer.dll crashes with Notepad++ 5.9

    Installed 5.9 over 5.8 and it crashes on startup with "Unknown Exception", winxp 32bit, 2 gig ram.

    Originally 2011-04-04 on the 5.9 thread:

    I reinstalled np++ 5.9 and created a shortcut that ran it -noPlugin.  It comes up fine and appears to work.  Running it without that flag causes the crash-on-startup "Unknown Exception" that I saw earlier.  It does not have plugins, of course.  And no plugin menu item for me to load them one by one.

    The np++ About box says Notepad v5.9 (UNICODE).  If there were a default plugin that was not Unicode then everybody would have the problem. 

    By adding and removing dll files from the plugins directory, I was able to prove that starting the program with the AHKExternalLexer.dll was necessary and sufficient to cause the crash.  It's fine without this dll.

    I have been using the xml file syntax coloring for AutoHotKey and it's reasonably.  The dll lexer was better though, when it worked.

    But see:

    By: flappingcrane:

    Exception: Unknown Exception message box.  Clicking OK button closes the message
    window; Notepad++ doesn't run.
    I disable plugin NppExternalLexers and v5.9 runs successfully.  Re-enable
    NppExternalLexers and 5.9 never runs, only displays "Unknown Exception" message,
    no other description of error.

    Running Windows XP SP3 32-bit.  Went from v5.8.7 to v5.9.

    The author of the dll is at this link, more or less.  I'll be sending him this info.

     
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