After seeing Xenon will be rewritten in C++ and wxWidgets, I wasn't sure whether to report this, but I thought I might as well in case there's some maintenance fixes to the AutoIt version in between.
Problem: Adding Xenon templates does not work and causes buggy behavior in another way.
Steps to Reproduce: File -> New -> Add Template. In the window the appears, pressing Cancel will show a 'File Copying' screen and will create your current templates in your 'XenonPortable' directory. That's your buggy behavior.
However, when actually trying to add a template, say PHPDocument.php, it will say the file/folder already exists in a 'Replace File' window saying the source is P:\PortableApps\XenonPortable\App\xenon\NewFiles and asking if you would like to replace. Pressing Yes will not create the template in the 'NewFiles' directory or throw it in your XenonPortable directory like was somehow happening. I also just noticed the default templates were created in the root of my drive at some point which is where I was adding PHPDocument.php from and I had Xenon currently focused on.
Xenon also typically stalls after this problem when left sitting for a minute and no actions can be performed and Xenon must be killed. Xenon also just stole my ability to backspace when it froze. :P Odd. :P
Problem: Adding Xenon templates does not work and causes buggy behavior in another way.
Steps to Reproduce: File -> New -> Add Template. In the window the appears, pressing Cancel will show a 'File Copying' screen and will create your current templates in your 'XenonPortable' directory. That's your buggy behavior.
However, when actually trying to add a template, say PHPDocument.php, it will say the file/folder already exists in a 'Replace File' window saying the source is P:\PortableApps\XenonPortable\App\xenon\NewFiles and asking if you would like to replace. Pressing Yes will not create the template in the 'NewFiles' directory or throw it in your XenonPortable directory like was somehow happening. I also just noticed the default templates were created in the root of my drive at some point which is where I was adding PHPDocument.php from and I had Xenon currently focused on.
Xenon also typically stalls after this problem when left sitting for a minute and no actions can be performed and Xenon must be killed. Xenon also just stole my ability to backspace when it froze. :P Odd. :P
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... am I the only one who sees my post without spaces?
Ok... line breaks seemed to do the trick.
Should this app be deprecated, as development last occoured in 2009?
Related: If so, we should close the bug.
As the app still works reasonably well, it'd be nice if we could get the bug fixed. Sadly, I can't get AutoIT to work with it on my PC. Not sure if AutoIT3Wrapper GUI is deprecated or not, but the scripts don't compile right anymore and there seems to be nearly zero documentation on it.
Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!
I have a copy of the c++ version of xenon, I could work on it on my spare time.
your friendly neighbourhood moderator Zach Thibeau
How far along is it?
Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!
last I checked it was at the point where it could do file associations but had a few bugs, I'll be going through the code later today and see what I could do.
your friendly neighbourhood moderator Zach Thibeau
I've added this issue to the app's homepage with a link here as the app is no longer in active development and this bug is unlikely to ever be fixed. As such, I am closing this bug so it no appears in our active tracker of bugs being worked on.
Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!