if this is the wrong place, I am sorry!

Definitely the wrong place. This thread is for new and critical issues to 8.4.2.

The rightklick function to switch selected text to UPPERCASE or lowercase does not work with ß (nor ẞ --> which is uppercase of ß)

It apparently is a complicated topic that Notepad++ itself can do nothing about. Some more reading is HERE.

In Germany there is the letter “ß”. Since a few years, there is an uppercase Version of this letter. It is used for words which are written in UPPERCASE only (example).

The rightklick function to switch selected text to UPPERCASE or lowercase does not work with ß (nor ẞ --> which is uppercase of ß)
Example: heiß - HEIẞ

Best regards and have a nice weekend
Dennis

The issue of sprial-kipz is a FAQ.

Ah, thank you! Yeah, when I had Notepad++ opened and tried to look in Slack it wound up crashing Slack. Restarting Notepad++ after this seems to have fixed the weird issues, so I guess I’ll use this information in the future to get Notepad++ working properly if it continues to do as such.

I have no idea how to get rid of these and go back to the old view I had.

Remove (uninstall) Slack if you have it. Do a search in the last 6 months of posts on this forum or go to Github #9717 for more info. I doubt it’s been sorted yet. Apparently stopping the app doesn’t fix it, it has to be uninstalled.

Terry

FAQ.

No problem here :

Thanks again

As by your own admission it isn’t specific to 8.4.2, you’ll want to create a bug report to get this looked at. See HERE for how to do that.

Notepad++ version 8.4.1 runs ok.

Greetings and thanks for everything.

Notepad++ version 8.4.2 does not open in Windows 7. That is, the main window does not open. But the application runs as it appears in the task manager.
I can not send you any screenshot because there is nothing to show.

Greetings and thanks for everything.

is there some place where you let others know what the next release version number for Notepad++ is going to be i.e., before you have an RC version?
For example, I see a lot of talk about the next release being 8.4.3. But it very well might be 8.4.2.1 or 8.5 or 9.0. Right?

It’s not always easy to know the version number and sometimes it happens to change the version at the last minute. You can always request the version number on the GitHub by tagging me (Not here - I don’t get any notification from the forum). I’ll try my best to reply your request.

@troglo37

First, please don’t pollute the release announcement thread with questions. This area should be for postings about actual problems with the released version.

Second, for instructions per your request, take a look at the changes to the user manual (which haven’t quite made it to actual release yet, so maybe wait a day or so…).

Third, in relation to:

I’ve been waiting for years to be able to change the toolbar icons

Why haven’t you tried the Customize Toolbar plugin for this?

Sorry about that. I didn’t realize that’s what this thread is for. I’ll start a new one to continue my questions.

@shridhar-kumar said in Notepad++ v8.4.2 release:

talk about the next release being 8.4.3. But it very well might be 8.4.2.1 or 8.5 or 9.0. Right?

Instead of checking for ver>=8.4.3 in your plugin, couldn’t you check for ver>8.4.2 – you know the current version is 8.4.2, so the next version is guaranteed to be greater than that, whether it’s 8.4.3 or 8.4.2.1 or 8.5 or 9.0.

It’s “guaranteed” only if NPPM_GETNPPVERSION is called with the optional ADD_ZERO_PADDING flag. Otherwise, 8.4.2.1 returns 8 and 421, which is greater than 8 and 43, the presumptive next version, and 8.5 is less than both at 8 and 5. As documented, only versions 8.4.1 and up have the improved API, so at least two version checks are needed — one to discover the API, one more to use it.

I would say version string comparison remains the most foolproof option in all cases, assuming it’s based on the ascending sequence of ASCII ordinals.

$ tree --sort=name
├── 8.4.2
├── 8.4.2.1
├── 8.4.3
├── 8.5
└── 9.0

First, please don’t pollute the release announcement thread with questions. This area should be for postings about actual problems with the released version.

Second, for instructions per your request, take a look at the changes to the user manual (which haven’t quite made it to actual release yet, so maybe wait a day or so…).

Third, in relation to:

I’ve been waiting for years to be able to change the toolbar icons

Why haven’t you tried the Customize Toolbar plugin for this?

My first preference would be to have an option (in Settings > Preferences) for Standard Icons: Large. Why the heck they made those icons so small is beyond me.

Because the icons are so small, I have to use Fluent UI: Large.

How do I go about customizing the toolbar icons? I don’t see an easy way to do it, so I’m not going to piddle around and screw something up.