NppTextFX2 not working for me in v8.8.8

Sinsearach

[replicated from this original reply to v8.8.8 Announcement topic by moderator]

Greetings,
Just updated after quite a long while, and on Windows 10, TextFX (NppTextFX2) plugin will not work (appear at all), whether installed manually or through plugin admin, with this latest version, neither on 32 nor 64 bit versions. Both portable, not installed through setup.

Yes I ran as admin.

Had to revert back to v8.1.5, works fine there.

-Laters

PeterJones

@Sinsearach ,

Just updated after quite a long while,

So that means it wasn’t just v8.8.8 that you had the problem with. Please only use the “Notepad++ x.y.z release” announcement topics for changes between immediately-previous version and this version. For example, that v8.8.8 topic should only mention regressions that changed behavior between v8.8.7 and v8.8.8. Any other problems you find when you jump from v8.1.5 (for example) to v8.8.8 should go in “help wanted” (where I put this duplicate discussion), and if can be confirmed as a bug in Notepad++, we will direct you on where to put in the official bug report. But it’s not an immediate regression with v8.8.8, so doesn’t belong in that discussion.

TextFX (NppTextFX2) plugin

mumble mumble… I wish the person who had done the conversion to make it compatible with N++ v8+ had renamed the menu and About box, not just the underlying DLL. (Not your fault, I know… but if someone accidentally just calls it TextFX, we are led to believe it’s the out-of-date incompatible plugin. So thanks for at least putting the real name in parentheses.)

plugin will not work (appear at all), whether installed manually or through plugin admin,

Weird. I just took portable v8.8.8 on my Windows 11 machine, and used Plugins Admin to install NppTextFX2 1.4.1, and it installed just fine. When N++ restarted, the TextFX menu was there, and I tried a couple random commands, and they did what was expected.

I would be very much surprised if this were a Windows 10-vs-11 thing, because NppTextFX2 hasn’t changed recently, and N++ itself is tested on both Win10 and Win11…

Yes I ran as admin.

when did you run as admin? when you installed the plugin? or when you tried to run the plugin? or both? Because if you’ve got a portable Notepad++, it should be in a directory where you have full write access… and you shouldn’t need to Run as Admin (in fact, since v8.8.6, you probably shouldn’t need to Run As Admin for just about anything; it will individually ask for permission when writing files in protected directories). But if you installed it as Admin, maybe it broke the permissions of your portable directory

In your portable 64-bit (you shouldn’t need to use 32-bit in modern OS): please do the following:

go to ?-menu, and share your Debug Info with us
show us a recursive directory listing of your portable Plugins directory, so that we can see that the directory hierarchy is correct (dir /S from a cmd.exe prompt, or powershell equivalent)