v7.3.3 - Fix CIA Hacking Notepad++ issue

AngryGamer

@cipher-1024 Thoughts on PR#3023 and Issue#3016?

Shyam Reddy

Hi,

Good day! Has anyone seeing this visually not pleasant multi-line tab bar since this update? Tabs now have got extra white space around making them look bad. Screenshot

AngryGamer

@Shyam-Reddy There’s a discussion about it on Issue#3007

Shyam Reddy

@AngryGamer said:

@Shyam-Reddy There’s a discussion about it on Issue#3007

Thanks AngryGamer. Hope this gets fixed. Sorry if I posted under wrong thread.

chicharones

Believe it or not, I’ve got a windows 2003 machines that I updated with 7.3.3 package.

The installer runs without issue and upgrades. However, launching notepad++ now triggers two “unknown exception” dialog boxes. I click okay after each. It seems to run fine after that.

I totally understand if windows 2003 is outside supported windows versions. I don’t have any dev tools on the machine to give you more information.

chcg

@chicharones In principle n++ should still support win xp sp3. Which service pack of 2003 do you use?

mkupper

@chicharones said:

Believe it or not, I’ve got a windows 2003 machines that I updated with 7.3.3 package.

The installer runs without issue and upgrades. However, launching notepad++ now triggers two “unknown exception” dialog boxes. I click okay after each. It seems to run fine after that.

Try disabling the plugins to see if it’s one of those.

Exit from npp and from a command prompt do:

cd /d "%ProgramFiles%\Notepad++\plugins"
md disabled
move *.dll disabled

Start npp and see if there are issues. If there are none then exit from and start testing by moving DLLs from the disabled sub-folder back into plugins and starting/stopping npp to see if that’s the one that causes the issue.

I’m using 7.3.3 (23-bit) on Windows 2003 machines with all of the default plugins that npp comes with but it’s possible you have additional plugins.

StarBeat HD

@GlacialManYT said:

Thanks for your help Claudia, there was a system problem that I solved. Now all is ok.

Hello, I have the same problem with the x32 application. You can tell how you solved this problem. Thank you.

AngryGamer

@donho Can you review PR#3023? I’d like to know if further changes are necessary before I move onto other stuff.

donho

@AngryGamer said:

@donho Can you review PR#3023? I’d like to know if further changes are necessary before I move onto other stuff.

I’ll check this evening (Paris time).

donho

@GlacialManYT said:

After the answer, according to me, should be selected the tab of the last opened file (or in phase of opening). Obviously, if I have modified or deleted some files, the questions are one for each file and, at the end of the answers, as said, should be selected the tab of the last opened file (or in phase of opening). That’s all, not so important but useful.

It’s not the expacted behaviour in Notepad++.
I just tested under my v7.3.3, each question (dialog) comes with the file in question revealed.
Have you try to remove all plugins to make sure it’s not a plugin issue?

GlacialManYT

@StarBeat-HD
I thought it was an application issue, so, I have made related operations like

installation and deep uninstallation of both versions
elimination of all references “notepad++” from the registry
elimination of all references from the %systemdrive%
Therefore, not having solved, I tried to repair the system
Malware / Spyware check
sfc /scannow (for my OS was unuseful but is not a bad idea)
reinstallation of the runtimes only (my OS is always updated and all the .Net are ok, because are continously used by the applications, so, I haven’t checked them)
But I solved with the repair of the permissions, I used “Windows Repair Free” made by “Tweaking.com”. I only selected the first 4 “repairs” but, for other cases, is possible that are needed also some other repairs. Good work and good luck…

GlacialManYT

@donho said:

It’s not the expacted behaviour in Notepad++.
I just tested under my v7.3.3, each question (dialog) comes with the file in question revealed.
Have you try to remove all plugins to make sure it’s not a plugin issue?

Very probable, I reproduced the problem using a 32-bit full version and a 32-bit minimalist, on a 64-bit Win 10 (some days ago, I have noticed the mentioned problem on a 64-bit Win 7, where I want execute the same test). Thanks to this test I noticed that the problem occurs using the full version only. For the full version, I had executed a default installation, I had only selected the italian language. I think this is not useful but, during the test, I executed the minimalist version (ok) from the zip package (by WinRAR) on a OS where is installed the full version (not ok). Have you any suggestion? thanks.

chicharones

@mkupper

Thank you for the advice. I disabled all the plugins on the Win 2003 machine and added them back in one by one.

The offenders were mimeTools.dll and NppConverter.dll. The machine has been running notepad++ a very long time, so they probably were installed years ago by now.

donho

@chicharones

The offenders were mimeTools.dll and NppConverter.dll. The machine has been running notepad++ a very long time, so they probably were installed years ago by now.

Thank you for the info. What’s the version of notepad++ before the updating of v7.3.3 ?

chcg

@donho See https://github.com/npp-plugins/converter/blob/master/vc.proj/NppPluginConverter.vcxproj#L50, for x64 builds not v120_xp is used, but just v120, so for that plugin the x64 version probably has a problem on older machines.

terablade2001

Today I updated notepad++ to v7.3.3 and I have the problem that file-tabs are always locked! I can’t change anymore the file-tabs’ position when I’m using multi-line tabs. From Settings > Preferences > General > Tab Bar , there is an option “Lock (no drag and drop)” but it seems not to working (either I check it or not, stil I can’t change the order of file-tabs with drag and drop) when multi-line is selected.

In this new update, the no 5. is saying: “Improve multi-line tab: maintaining the selected tab position.”, but I think that this was implemented as “disable tabs order changing with drag and drop in multi-line tab”.

This means that we lost the option to lock or not the tabs according to our preference (this is a negative for me, because I use multi-line tabs and need to rearrange the tabs to specific positions!).

I agree that when we select a tab, it should not change position in multi-line tab mode, but we should be able to re-order their position if we need to!

Please check it, and fix it if it’s just a bug.

AngryGamer

@terablade2001 There is a fix available, but it’s waiting to be reviewed. See PR#3023 (moved to PR#3075).

AngryGamer

@terablade2001 If you want to test PR#3075, GitHub’s AppVeyor integration does automated builds. The binaries are here x86 and x64. You only need the notepad++ binary file (not SciLexer) and then launch it from the notepad++ folder.

Lucas Fowler

I installed NPP, and can run it fine. However, I used the method to replace the Windows 10 built in Notepad by deleting the 3 copies, and copying the NPP .exe into the folders. And when I try to launch it through the Start menu, or by double clicking in one of the system folders, I get a message with the window titled “Certificate checking” and the message says “Check certificate of C:\Windows\System32\SciLexer.dll : Cannot find the requested object.”

After clicking ok on that box, another dialogue box titled “Exception On WM_CREATE” says “ScintillaEditView::init : SCINTILLA ERROR - Can not load the dynamic library”

I don’t think this will be a showstopper for me, but it might be a bit of a pain, until it’s resolved.