Notepad++ v8.1.2 Released
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@David-Sperduto Running Vista Home Premium SP2 if that’s relevant.
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@David-Sperduto I’m afraid fixes for bugs that are specific to Windows Vista won’t be accepted. Please refer to this page about supported versions: https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/blob/master/SUPPORTED_SYSTEM.md
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@David-Sperduto said in Notepad++ v8.1.2 Released:
but saving a new file or Save As of any file is unresponsive once you get to the Save dialogue box. Can’t enter a file name or get Save button to work.
@mere-human It’s a critical issue. Does Vista’s runtime system not support at all our new Save dialog? Or there’s a way (not restoring the old system) to fix it?
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FYI:
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@donho I can’t say for sure. I need a Vista on VM to take a look.
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@mere-human said in Notepad++ v8.1.2 Released:
@donho I can’t say for sure. I need a Vista on VM to take a look.
Let’s see if there are others Vista users have the same problem before getting into it.
@David-Sperduto Could you create an issue on GitHube please :
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I have Vista Enterprise in a VM and tested Save As. As @David-Sperduto wrote, I was not able to input a new filename, the dialog just hangs. Same with Save a copy as.
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@donho said in Notepad++ v8.1.2 Released:
Let’s see if there are others Vista users have the same problem before getting into it.
I need a local VM to understand what’s going on.
I was expecting the modern File Dialog to work fine on Vista since MS says that in the doc:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/dlgbox/open-and-save-as-dialog-boxes[Starting with Windows Vista, the Open and Save As common dialog boxes have been superseded by the Common Item Dialog. We recommended that you use the Common Item Dialog API instead of these dialog boxes from the Common Dialog Box Library.]
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So here is the video from Vista VM. I type into the file name edit box, but nothing happens.
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@dinkumoil said in Notepad++ v8.1.2 Released:
I have Vista Enterprise in a VM and tested Save As. As @David-Sperduto wrote, I was not able to input a new filename, the dialog just hangs. Same with Save a copy as.
I can take a look at the problem and try several things if someone creates an issue on GitHub.
But I won’t promise anything.
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IIRC, this is the first complaint received about the file dialogs and Vista, even though the file dialog change-out was a bit of time ago. To me this says the number of Vista users is low, probably. If it is not any easy repair, perhaps time to leave Vista behind?
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@mere-human Sorry, I’ve been offline for a couple days. I’d be happy to try to create an issue on GitHub, although I’ve never worked on GitHub before so it may be a bumpy ride.
If I’m the only Vista user in the Notepad++ universe, and it’s a headache to make this work, I’m happy to go back a version. For my purposes, Notepad++ knocks it out of the park every day for me, as it was!
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@mere-human Apparently GitHub also does not support Vista. Can’t set up an account. Just get a malfunctioning registration page. Can this really be the end?..oh well…some day I’ll upgrade to W10 but can’t get to it right now. Which Notepad++ version should I go back to?
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Nevermind. Here is the issue I created: https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issues/10238
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Just upgraded. It appears that the “Search/Mark All” feature now doesn’t work if you select a whole line or more. It works with the “Search/Mark One” feature, but this is less useful.
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@Jason-R-Mayberry. FYI: I had to go back to 7.9.5 for this to work again.
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@Jason-R-Mayberry said in Notepad++ v8.1.2 Released:
Just upgraded. It appears that the “Search/Mark All” feature now doesn’t work if you select a whole line or more. It works with the “Search/Mark One” feature, but this is less useful.
Did you go to Settings > Preferences > Highlighting and turn off “Match whole word only” in the new “Mark All” section? Because with that on, it will only mark all if you’ve selected one word; with it off, it will mark all for partial words or multiple words
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@mere-human Thank you for giving it a shot !!
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@David-Sperduto @dinkumoil
FYI, the fix is included in the master and it will be in the next release:
https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/commit/a0c15274f54f388dadabf5231cec8cbfc23fa286Thank you @mere-human for the prompt fix!
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@donho Yes, thank you @mere-human and @donho. Very cool !! I have used Notepad++ for years, and almost every day. Very handy for the things I do.