Notepad++ File Status Auto-Detection not working

Claudia Frank · Jan 13, 2018, 6:00 PM

could you describe in detail what you have done?
Maybe you found a bug and if it can be reproduced it should
be easy to find out what caused the issue.

Cheers
Claudia

Кира Радионова · Jan 13, 2018, 7:17 PM

Here, look, please

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kT8DyXEGYtI

Claudia Frank · Jan 13, 2018, 8:28 PM

@Кира-Радионова

ok - this is working for me.
I would suggest that you try the following

disable File Satus Auto-Detection
restart npp and check if it is still disabled, if yes reenable it.
retest

if this does not work try the next

stop npp
depending on your configuration, rename the %APPDATA%\notepad++ directory
restart npp
A new directory with the default configuration files should have been created under %APPDATA%
restest.

Cheers
Claudia

Кира Радионова · Jan 13, 2018, 8:50 PM

Did as you wrote.
1 way did not help, does not work.
2 way, I did differently. I downloaded the Portable version 7.5.4 of the Notepad++. It’s the same in it. File Satus Auto-Detection does not work.
Maybe it’s all because I have Windows XP?

Кира Радионова · Jan 13, 2018, 8:57 PM

That’s what I found.
https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/3981
Someone has the same problem.
Most likely the bug is observed in the new version of Notepad on Windows XP.
Very sorry if this is so. Can fix it?

Claudia Frank · Jan 13, 2018, 9:02 PM

@Кира-Радионова

Let me see if I can reproduce this by reconfiguring wine to use windows xp api layer.

Cheers
Claudia

Claudia Frank · Jan 13, 2018, 9:13 PM

@Кира-Радионова

No, seems to work for me

But the evidence that two users using windows xp having the same issue can’t be ignored.

Cheers
Claudia

Кира Радионова · Jan 13, 2018, 9:17 PM

Thank you :)

Кира Радионова · Jan 13, 2018, 9:20 PM

I found the third user with a problem. Here too someone wrote.
https://notepad-plus-plus.org/community/topic/14902/v7-5-2-and-v7-5-3-file-status-auto-detection-don-t-work

Claudia Frank · Jan 13, 2018, 9:25 PM

@Кира-Радионова

Curious, despite the autodetection function there is another function with similar functionality.
It is under View->menu and is called Monitoring (tail -f). (the eye icon on toolbar)
If you activate this and do some changes do you see the updates?

Cheers
Claudia

Кира Радионова · Jan 13, 2018, 9:29 PM

So, nothing happens.
In addition, after activating Monitoring (tail -f), it’s impossible to print anything in Notepad ++. The text does not print, as if the readonly mode is turned on.

Claudia Frank · Jan 13, 2018, 9:34 PM

@Кира-Радионова

The text does not print, as if the readonly mode is turned on.
That is correct and expected behavior. The function is the only one who can updated
the file content once it gets triggered that file content has changed,

So it looks like there is a general issue with file modified notification mechanism.

Ok, I have another old laptop and I will install windows xp and do retesting.
Will take some time.

Cheers
Claudia

Кира Радионова · Jan 13, 2018, 9:39 PM

Well, Thank You very much for your help! :)

Claudia Frank · Jan 13, 2018, 11:53 PM

@Кира-Радионова

ok - can confirm reported behavior.
Last working version seems to be 7.5.1.
I checked changes from 7.5.1 to 7.5.2 but couldn’t find any hint about the offending source part.
This leads to the assumption, that switch to VS2015/VS2017 might be the root cause.
As far as I know XP compatibility must be set explicitly in VS2015/VS2017 projects
and it looks like it isn’t. At least I don’t find any hint it is set.

Sorry, but that’s as far as I can go - without VS debugger I can only assume this is it.

Cheers
Claudia

chcg · Jan 15, 2018, 4:42 PM

See https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/blob/master/PowerEditor/visual.net/notepadPlus.vcxproj

<PlatformToolset>v140_xp</PlatformToolset> is used, so build should still be compatible with Win XP SP3.

Claudia Frank · Jan 15, 2018, 4:59 PM

@chcg

thank you for clarification - I was searching for v120_xp but in retrospect it makes sense
that it is called v140_xp if using a new toolset.

Any idea what might cause this behavior?

Cheers
Claudia

guy038 · Jan 16, 2018, 11:35 AM

Hi, @claudia-frank, @chcg and All,

I just confirm the bug : the File Status Auto-Detection mechanism does not work, since the v7.5.2 version, on my Win XP SP3 platform ?!

Cheers,

guy038

chcg · Jan 16, 2018, 5:37 PM

Maybe we can bisect the problematic range, starting with testing te artifacts from:
https://ci.appveyor.com/project/donho/notepad-plus-plus/build/1.0.1635
to see if this also happens with the appveyor images.

And then maybe
https://ci.appveyor.com/project/donho/notepad-plus-plus/build/1.0.1582/