Texpad 4.7.1 Unexpectedly quits

mo · Post by mo » Wed Oct 22, 2003 12:09 pm

Bob...agree that Private Messaging would take this off the boards to the point where it made sense at least to make the conclusions known.

e-mail: note above where I speak of being "back from the abyss" new motherboard and CPU no likee old backup based on old hardware. Lost all my old e-mail addresses. If you visit BuddhaDust you will see my e-mail address at the foot of every page as a "gif"... hopeless attempt to keep down the enlargement, mortgage, ******, Nigerian mail.

mo · Post by mo » Fri Oct 24, 2003 10:33 am

Well I have one more piece of information to add here: Macro Scheduler is able to create executables from the macros and scripts created in it. I did this with the macro in question with the idea that it might yield some information to know if this problem occured in a situation where MS was not connected at all. Well it does...at least that part of the problem that involves adding extra characters (null characters and other characters) at the end of a file.

Also, relative to the previous post, this morning I notice that a good percentage of my spam suddenly contains my BuddhaDust email address. You can't win!

Post by **bbadmin** » Fri Oct 24, 2003 2:48 pm

If you wish to communicate with anyone directly, click on the email button against any of their messages. You'll then see an option to send them a private email. The recipient has the option to refuse to receive the message.

Keith MacDonald
Helios Software Solutions

Bob Hansen · Post by **Bob Hansen** » Fri Oct 24, 2003 11:19 pm

click on the email button against any of their messages.

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Could you please describe where that button is on the previous message from mo? I think a button will only be there if the option is checked to always show email address.

I know in the past when my email button was always showing, that I received emails, it was not an option to receive it. it came in.

Here is a copy of the top portion of the email that comes in:

Hello Forum UserName,

The following is an email sent to you by AnotherUser via your account on Community. If this message is spam, contains abusive or other comments you find offensive please contact the webmaster of the board at the following address:

[deleted by administrator, to prevent harvesting]

Include this full email (particularly the headers). Please note that the reply address to this email has been set to that of AnotherUser.

Message sent to you follows
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Email content is in here........
.....

(I have replaced real names with aliases)

But this is actually off topic and should be included in an earlier posting for Private Mail request: http://www.textpad.com/forum/viewtopic. ... te+message

Post by **bbadmin** » Sat Oct 25, 2003 9:33 am

My apologies. As forum administrator, I always see the email button, but general users can only see it for other users who have not chosen to hide their email addresses. Please note that in neither case is your email address actually revealed. When not hidden, email has to go via a web form, rather than using an email client. To change your preferences, click on the Profile button at the top of the page.

Keith MacDonald
Helios Software Solutions

dsunde · Post by **dsunde** » Thu Oct 30, 2003 2:05 am

I found a sequence of events that instantly crashes TextPad every time. All changes and status are lost.

I have TextPad set to be the source editor for Internet Explorer. I also have it configured so that files with no extention are treated as HTML files. I do this so that when I view source in Internet Explorer, the file are displayed with color coding.

when I click "View | Source" in IE, TextPad opens a temporary file in the "Temporary Internet Files" folder. If I edit that file, and (without saving it) click the "View in Web Browser" button in TextPad, the program instantly disappears, losing everything. If I save the file first, I get a dialog box titled "HTML Browser" which says, "A device attached to the system is not functioning." nothing else happens; TextPad does not crash.

Here's my setup: TextPad 4.7.1, Windows XP, Internet Explorer 6

mo · Post by mo » Thu Oct 30, 2003 12:07 pm

Just as an aside, I believe MudGuard proposed a solution to the view source syntax highlighting issue which works well: change the .txt syntax to .html and add *.] to the files of type box.

Post by **bbadmin** » Thu Oct 30, 2003 12:10 pm

Thanks for reporting this problem. We have been able to reproduce it, so it will be fixed in the next release.

Keith MacDonald
Helios Software Solutions

mo · Post by mo » Thu Oct 30, 2003 2:23 pm

For what it's worth (I don't imagine anyone else is using the script included above that is causing the sudden closure problem): I have added a routine at the end of this problem script that closes the file and then re-opens it. This eliminates the issue with the insertion of extra characters upon using "delete" at the end of the file, and it also eliminates the issue of "undo" undoing the file into oblivion.

The file is still originally being saved with one single null character at the end of the file. I am thinking now that this has something to do with the fact that when line numbering is used, a new line is always created after ending a line (of course, how not? -- but should it be being saved when saving the file, and is it the cause of the extra null characters? -- as mentioned above this is happening whether or not automatically terminate last line at the end of a file is checked.)

Texpad 4.7.1 Unexpectedly quits

another way to crash TextPad