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It's nice to be able to release a version of CodeSnip containing new features instead of bug fixes. Except that this release also includes bug fixes, including episode 3 of the hibernation bug fix saga. So what's new? Not a lot except for some new snippet export options: For the longest time you've been able to get a copy on the clipboard all the information about a snippet that gets displayed in the detail pane. Now you can finally save the information directly to a file. The only option is Rich Text Format just now, but more formats may make an appearance later. When exporting Pascal units and annotated snippet source code various formats can be chosen. HTML 5 format export files has now joined the list or plain text, Pascal, RTF and XHTML Some annoying, but relatively trivial bugs have also been fixed. Go see the change log if you're curious. But I can't close this post without mentioning the hibernation bug fix saga. A third fix of the bug where CodeSnip someti...

It had to happen didn't it? Not long after my post about yesterday's bug fix release of CodeSnip, Oliver reached out to point out a potential problem with the way I'd implemented it. See the linked post and comments if you're interested in the details. Suffice to say that the problem was sufficient for me to hunt for an alternative solution. Having found one I've rushed out hotfix v4.24.2 to patch yesterday's release (v4.24.1) and make it more robust. Whether or not you downloaded yesterday's you really should update CodeSnip to the hotfix release. ⮞  Get hotfix release v4.24.2 from GitHub . The fix involves a dirty hack of which I'm deeply ashamed, but it works. To be up-front about how horrible this hack is I've liberally sprinkled comments that include the text "!! HACK" in the code. Also, any new methods and fields that implement the hack have names prefixed with  _HACK_ . I need to get this patch out, so don't have time to explai...

What a red letter day. 🎆🎇🌠 For several years a nasty access violation bug has been lurking inside CodeSnip . It crashed the program when the computer was resumed from hibernation, but only sometimes. Because the bug was intermittent and required numerous hibernation / resume cycles to be run before it finally cropped up it defied diagnosis for a long, long time. Until now. Or up until someone finds my fix doesn't work for them! The bug fix release is v4.24.1 - get it from GitHub . Read on if you're interested what the problem turned out to be . CodeSnip uses a custom drawn tree view control to display the available snippets, grouped under headings. A custom TTreeNode class is used that has an extra property that references an object instance that provides extra information about the item been displayed. This information is used by the custom drawing code. The problem is that, occasionally, when waking from hibernation, Windows destroys and recreates the window handle of the...

CodeSnip v4.24.0 has just been released. There's no main feature in this release. It's a bit of a mish-mash of numerous minor bug fixes and tweaks that have been implemented since the previous release. I'm not going into detail about the numerous small changes here: check out the change log if you're interested. Do you need this release? Well, its not going to knock your socks off, but there are a couple of bug fixes, so installing it wouldn't do any harm. ✅ Get v4.24.0 from its GitHub releases page .