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Hello Folks:
Developing on Windows 10 Pro, Visual Studio Community 2022 Community, C++.
Sorry, this question is about Visual Studio string tables, but I couldn't find an appropriate tag.
In the 20 years I've been developing for Windows, on different computers and through different versions of Microsoft's C++ development environment, there's one task that I always dread.
Using the String Table.
Mysterious and evil things happen there. I've seen text change while the keyboard and mouse lay untouched on the desk.
The String Table behaves most of the time, but a task I started last night is failing repeatedly. So I decided to try capturing the event on video.
Here's a link to the video.
Please suffer through the 3 minutes of my stammering and tell me what I'm doing wrong.
Thanks
Larry
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Hi, @a_unique_name
When I press Enter after modifying the string, it doesn't have this problem. I think it's a bug because it happens to me too if I follow the video. You can report this issue to the Developer Community and put the link in this thread.
Best regards,
Minxin Yu
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Thanks Minxin Yu:
I noticed the same thing.
I think hitting the save should close the edit.
You were seeing your string IDs being corrupted too?
Have you noticed anything strange happening when using the String Table?
I appreciate your help.
Larry
Yes, the string ID also changed.
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In your bug report, be sure to mention that you have the table sorted by the text, rather than the ID (I couldn't reproduce it with the default sorting by ID).
Please post a link back here to your bug report so that we can follow it and confirm/vote on it.
I must admit that in all the years I've used the string table editor, I've never come across this problem - though I can't ever remember changing the sorting, or pressing Save while I hadn't finished editing a symbol.