My 2 cents : I need a fast string split procedure as I, professionaly, regularly process huge strings.
I tried the above solutions and the others on different posts, all are ok but for my specific need (performance), I wrote a little tricked procedure (in a module) with mixed ASM to ...
Would it be possible to add an (optional?) confirmation dialog when deleting a gadget : sometimes, I mistakely choose the wrong menu option (my bad) and have no chance to go back...
However, comparing your exe with my 1.4.16 exe, they are strictly identical so I deduce that this is in fact the 1.4.16 version, or my version is finally the 1.4.17 version (how to know ?).
Maybe have you the version 1.4.17 backed up somewhere ?
I've found why I had this (solved) problem : I've forgot to check "Enable (color needs PureColor)" on the "Extra" tab, in the "Background / Color Image" frame.