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    • Кира РадионоваК
      Кира Радионова
      last edited by

      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?

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      • Claudia FrankC
        Claudia Frank @Кира Радионова
        last edited by

        @Кира-Радионова

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

        Cheers
        Claudia

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        • Claudia FrankC
          Claudia Frank @Кира Радионова
          last edited by

          @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

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          • Кира РадионоваК
            Кира Радионова
            last edited by

            Thank you :)

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            • Кира РадионоваК
              Кира Радионова
              last edited by

              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

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              • Claudia FrankC
                Claudia Frank @Кира Радионова
                last edited by Claudia Frank

                @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

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                • Кира РадионоваК
                  Кира Радионова
                  last edited by

                  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.

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                  • Claudia FrankC
                    Claudia Frank @Кира Радионова
                    last edited by

                    @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

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                    • Кира РадионоваК
                      Кира Радионова
                      last edited by

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

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                      • Claudia FrankC
                        Claudia Frank @Кира Радионова
                        last edited by

                        @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

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                        • chcgC
                          chcg
                          last edited by

                          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.

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                          • Claudia FrankC
                            Claudia Frank @chcg
                            last edited by

                            @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

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                            • guy038G
                              guy038
                              last edited by guy038

                              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

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                              • chcgC
                                chcg
                                last edited by

                                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/

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                                • Claudia FrankC
                                  Claudia Frank @chcg
                                  last edited by

                                  @chcg

                                  this is the last working one

                                  Language menu and Style configurator sorted alphabetically and use the same language name in the Style configurator as the language menu.

                                  https://ci.appveyor.com/project/donho/notepad-plus-plus/build/1.0.1526

                                  this is the first which breaks it

                                  Switch to VS 2015

                                  https://ci.appveyor.com/project/donho/notepad-plus-plus/build/1.0.1530

                                  There were no build from 1.0.1527 to 1.0.1529 due to errors.

                                  Cheers
                                  Claudia

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                                  • chcgC
                                    chcg
                                    last edited by

                                    But https://ci.appveyor.com/project/donho/notepad-plus-plus/build/1.0.1526 is a Pull request #3726 build, so not a direct successor of Switch to VS 2015 (https://ci.appveyor.com/project/donho/notepad-plus-plus/build/1.0.1530)

                                    That would be https://ci.appveyor.com/project/donho/notepad-plus-plus/build/1.0.1521,

                                    with
                                    https://ci.appveyor.com/project/donho/notepad-plus-plus/build/1.0.1527
                                    https://ci.appveyor.com/project/donho/notepad-plus-plus/build/1.0.1528

                                    failing.

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                                    • Claudia FrankC
                                      Claudia Frank @chcg
                                      last edited by

                                      @chcg

                                      sorry, but I don’t get your point.
                                      I would assume that a build with a lower build number is never a successor of a build
                                      with a higher build number.

                                      And what is your concern about the results I’ve posted?

                                      Cheers
                                      Claudia

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                                      • chcgC
                                        chcg
                                        last edited by

                                        @Claudia-Frank The builds at appveyor not just contain the trunk checkins, but also pull requests which might contain something totally different. Sorry, I meant predecessor.

                                        I created a branch from the 7.5.1 tag and modified the appveyor config to build VS2013 vs. VS2015 on the appveyor image 2015. So this should reveal if already the switch to VS2015 is causing the trouble.

                                        See https://ci.appveyor.com/project/chcg/notepad-plus-plus/build/1.0.114, build from https://github.com/chcg/notepad-plus-plus/commits/winxp_autodectection_investigation2

                                        Since the checkin of the json parser(https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/commit/b033d907b29f42f570c21b0bfc0ac60c257f08c4) it is no longer possible to build with VS2013 due to the lack of c++11/14 features needed.

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                                        • Claudia FrankC
                                          Claudia Frank @chcg
                                          last edited by

                                          @chcg

                                          Thx for clarification - I will give it a try later and let you know.

                                          Cheers
                                          Claudia

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                                          • Claudia FrankC
                                            Claudia Frank @chcg
                                            last edited by

                                            @chcg

                                            binary with PlatformToolset=v120_xp works
                                            but binary with …=v140_xp does not.
                                            Hmmm, I see the binaries are different in size
                                            but I assume you just changed the toolset version
                                            and the rest was kept the same, wasn’t it.

                                            I already searched the web, and there are some reports that there are problems
                                            on windows xp when using VS2015 onwards but it looks like all of them were solved
                                            by setting the compatibility flag aka toolset. Strange.

                                            Cheers
                                            Claudia

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