BowPad could crash if both x86 and x64 versions installed with any lang file about bowpad HOT 11 CLOSED

The real problem here is not the language files but the detection of whether an instance of BP is portable or not.
Right now, the detection is done by reading a registry key: if it exists, BP assumes that it was installed, otherwise it assumes it is portable.
So with this detection mechanism, you can't have an installed and a portable version at the same time on the same machine.

Suggestions for other detection mechanisms are welcome...

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The installation was really problematic. If the portable version check for updates, after downloading and installing the new version, the portable version becomes an installed version. Thus I suggest you not use the registry detection.

Typical detection of portable version mechanism places a file into the installation directory. Someone uses an empty file named portable.ini (or another name), someone just places the settings file there (when the application finds the settings file there, it assumes that it is running in portable mode).

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Thank you for taking time working with this issue.

I was running BowPad under portable mode (no entry in registry).
While I launched the latest compiled build, it searched for the lang file on the web (I cancelled it since I wanted to use my own lang file) and it removed my localized lang file in the BowPad folder after my cancellation.

Where will the lang file are supposed to be located if BowPad is running in portable mode?

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the lang file is downloaded to the bin folder in portable mode.

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I tried to place the BowPad_zh-CN.lang file into the following positions, but BowPad still insisted to load lang file from the web.

(.\ stands for the BowPad dir)

.\BowPad_zh-CN.lang
.\bin\BowPad_zh-CN.lang
.\BowPad\bin\BowPad_zh-CN.lang

My connection was slow, it had not yet finished the download...

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I checked the behavior of BowPad. The lang file was expected to be placed at .\BowPad_zh-CN.lang for Chinese language.

My compiled binary BowPad.exe was versioned 2.6.5.0 (I did not used nant to increment the version number), and the lang file had the same version number.
It seemed that BowPad somehow thought the file was not good and attempted to download it from the web.

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it if had the same version: maybe the reason it failed the check was that the lang file and the BP are not the same bitness (e.g. BP is 64-bit exe and the lang file a 32-bit version or vice versa).

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Both BowPad and the lang file were 64bit.
It had been OK for years before this commit.

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and when you let it download from the web, does it do that repeatedly or does it accept the downloaded version?

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I tried to copy some previous versions that I copied to my servers to my computer which was previously good, the recently built BowPad removed them and insisted downloading from the web and accepted the downloaded version.

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I debugged the compilation and found the problem.

I've gotten a .\BowPad_zh-CN.lang in my BowPad folder which was using the 64 bit layout but with an I386 header.
It was the problem of my localization tool.

I changed to use another localization tool and the problem was solved.

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