External editor (bitmap) doesn't open the file because it's locked

[serddmitry]

• Operating system: Windows 7
• Pencil version: 3.0.5

Steps to reproduce:

• set Bitmap editor command to "mspaint"
• get some bitmap on your clipboard (for example, make a screenshot)
• paste it to Pencil (it shows up, everything is good)
• Right click on the image, select "Action > Edit with External Editor..." — an alert appears saying "A sharing violation occurred while accessing ".

I've tried Paint.NET and MS Paint, neither opens the file (I see that the file getting created in the temp folder, but it seems locked). I've also tried including %f as part of "bitmap editor command", nothing worked.

[codeling]

It's not exactly the same error, but running Pencil 3.0.4 on Windows 10, I get "The file could not be found" in paint.net, and indeed, when I check the path paint.net tells me, there is no such file in the temp directory. At some point I did see a single tmp file with a different "random" part, which contained the requested image. After some more experimenting, now I'm getting the same error as @serddmitry for one image, while for another image (in the same epgz document) I still get the "not found" one. Any log I could check for what is going on here?

On a related note, when I try to copy a (png) image from within Pencil, and try to insert it into paint.net, paint.net tells me that "The clipboard does not contain an image". Trying to insert in a text editor indeed gives me some XML text instead of an image. Should I report a separate issue for this, or is this a known issue? Or do I maybe need to configure something differently?

This situation makes retrieving images files from Pencil a bit hard - it requires opening the .epgz file in 7zip and extracting the corresponding image from the refs subfolder.

Apart from that though, I like Pencil, and where it's going! Thanks for all the great work!