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I have the VERY annoying effect, that Textpad 5.3.1 which I used to know as rock-solid and never crashing over at least 10 years or so now frequently crashes under my new Windows 7 (ultimate / 32-Bit).

Alas, I can't report much notable on the circumstances. It's often after I clicked into the text (e.g. to select a word) that Win7 suddenly tells me that this application has crashed and after clicking OK Textpad (plus all unsafed work) is gone.

Any ideas or fixes? This is getting a real pain!

Michael

OK - I just boiled a file that kept crashing on me down to the bare minimum so that it "reliably" crashes.

Turns out that the reason seems to be some odd combination of a link and a trailing '<' in the same line. Only if both are present I get a crash.

To reproduce this, paste the below lines into a new window and then keep selecting a word, e.g. "foo" in each line and right-click on it to open the context menu. This works fine except in the last line on which I reproducibly get a crash:
-----------------------------------
foo bar
foo bar<
http://some.domain/foo.bar
http://some.domain/foo.bar foo bar
http://some.domain/foo.bar foo bar<
-----------------------------------

Hope that helps in identifying and fixing this issue!

Michael

Hi Michael,

Well done for coming up with a reproducible scenario!

I can confirm the problem in TextPad 5.3.1 on Vista SP2. In your sample text, right-clicking anywhere on the last line after the URL causes TextPad to crash.

Here's the problem signature:
Problem Event Name: BEX
Application Name: TextPad.exe
Application Version: 5.3.1.0
Application Timestamp: 4a882071
Fault Module Name: TextPad.exe
Fault Module Version: 5.3.1.0
Fault Module Timestamp: 4a882071
Exception Offset: 000fbeee
Exception Code: c0000417
Exception Data: 00000000
OS Version: 6.0.6002.2.2.0.768.3
Locale ID: 3081
Additional Information 1: 3ad0
Additional Information 2: 921f1166c5411212856840eebedd15a1
Additional Information 3: 15ab
Additional Information 4: a36cbbedc573f92c4553e19d2faeba15

Andrew

It's not the URL that's doing it, and it's not only Vista or Windows 7.

Right-clicking on any line containing just causes textPad 5.3 to crash on XP SP2.

I just double checked (since I had experimented with that, too) and found:
There must be (at least) one more line following the "<".

A file containing just the single line does not crash. However, a file containing does crash, when right-clicking on one of the words. So, it's indeed apparently the "<" followed by a newline that seems the culprit.

Anyway - that seems now precise and reproducible enough to quickly locate the problem!

Michael

Thanks for pointing out the bug. We can reproduce it, so it will be fixed in the next maintenance upgrade.