@PeterJones I haven’t heard anything from @chcg or anyone else, but I’ve been fiddling.

I’ve recently determined that 1) this problem is ongoing with all NPP releases through 8.4.6, and 2) it does NOT occur in dark mode. The issue will return as soon as one switches back to “light” mode. (Not a dark mode fan anyway.)

I decided to look into the cause. I started by copying the existing v2.4 code base from Github and comparing it to the latest NPP v8.4.6 source. It appears to me that this problem is related to changes in the handling of WM_ERASEBKGND messages in the NPP DockingDlgInterface class that were added for the handling of dark mode.

I’m going to update some of the include files and attempt to fix this issue. Never worked on a project served from Github. Hopefully when I start making pull requests, I can work with @chcg to help get a new release addressing this issue.

@Ekopalypse said in Lifecycle of a plugin:

@Chris-De-Boeck
These are the methods that are called by Npp when a plugin is loaded (once, at startup).

Thanks, that’s clear now.

@Chris-De-Boeck

Unfortunattely I don’t know much about cpp. But there is GetPrivateProfileString, not sure if this works for you.

@PeterJones well, actually there’s a 10-yr old bug that can explain this:

Installation does not preserve the “do not use %appdata%” setting.

So if you installed with that option, and then when upgrading you forget to check that option again, your settings will be lost (to be exact, they will still be in your HDD, but N++ will search for them elsewhere)

@rdipardo thanks for clarifying the Windows settings and the PR, it looks very useful. One question though, if I understand correctly the code in the PR creates a copy of the file content into a managed byte array. But the text data files can often be quite large, like 100MB, so then it would make a copy of 100MB right?

That would basically double the memory usage and add performance overhead every time the syntax highlighting is applied to a csv file.

Is there maybe a way to use the buffer_ptr directly, like in this stackoverflow answer? I know it’s “unsafe” code from the CLR perspective, as in using an unmanaged memory pointer, but it would probably perform better, so instead of:

string content = Marshal.PtrToStringAnsi(buffer_ptr, length);

do something like

byte *byte_buffer = (byte *)buffer_ptr; for (var idx=0; idx < length;idx++) //etc.

@Ekopalypse thanks for the answer. 🤔 Adding listeners for the BufferActivated event and manually setting the style each time the user switches to a different tab adds a lot of code and possibilities for bugs, for something that the user typically only does once…

Honestly I think I’ll undo the new code and go back to just asking the user to restart Notepad++ after they change the default color set.

@Rufus-Smith said in Can I trigger a python script from mouse movements/hover/mouseover/etc..:

I learned today how to modify the contextMenu.xml to be able to add a python script as a menu option in the right-click context menu, which is a further alternative to hover-tip-click

Sure, but the context menu will appear whenever your right click, on all text and in all files. Confining actions to call-tips in specific file types and requiring a click on the call-tip to invoke certain actions keeps things very localized, and it is easy to set up and handle. But, of course, the choice is yours! :-)

BTW, running scripts from the normal right-click context menu also allows them (to a degree) to use modifiers to change behavior. It has some of the limitations mentioned previously, but I do it. You can also put a modifier hint into the context menu text to remind you, example: Run script (+Shift=Do all) – you get the idea…

@Alan-Kilborn no I mean only my own credentials in a text file located on my computer:

Some of my credentials are kept as text in a file.

Hi,

It is currently not possible.

BR

@Michelle-Flores said in DuckyScript 3.0 Style Configuration Request:

Would it be possible to add DuckyScript 3.0 as a style configuration? That would be awesome!

As @PeterJones says, you’ll need to use / define a User Defined Language (UDL). A quick Google turns up this:

https://github.com/abhinavvv03/Rubber-Duckey/blob/master/Downloads.rdoc

I cannot confirm the veracity of the UDL download mentioned on that site - my IT blocks it. Proceed with caution.

Cheers.

@Manpreet-Singh ,

One more freebie: check if you have a newline at the end.

Note that my example screenshot above shows the file has 10 lines, the last being blank.

If you have a file that doesn’t have a newline after the closing } – so only 9 lines instead – it won’t syntax highlight.

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The highlighter requires at least one newline or other whitespace character after the final }.

@PeterJones Thank you for the steps. They worked so well.

Possibly related: Plugin rendered wrong since v8.4.3

@pnedev

On Notepad++ start I get a message “Access violation”.

N++ versions 8.4.3+ have serious problem with WINE.

@Ekopalypse I’m making gradual progress, working on it off and on between other distractions. I’m very happy with what I have so far. If I can find enough time to finish it I think it will be very good.

Some information about the new functions.

The regex error feature needs a decent npp version.
Afaik 8.2.1 is needed to have the end of line annotation feature.

The real time match update temporarily deletes already styled matches to see what really matches, I hope this makes sense.

Two new ini keys are needed.

; The ID of the style used to display regex errors. ; If there are conflicts with other styles used by Npp or other plugins, change this value. ; The expected range is between 0 and 255; according to Scinitilla. regex_error_style_id=30 ; The color used by the style. ; For an explanation of how this color can be defined, see the following description of the regexes and their colors. regex_error_color=0x756ce0

Ah, good to know it’s not just me!

I’ve also tried using the SCI_SETFIRSTVISIBLELINE but that doesn’t work for me either.

I have seen this working and I have updated Notepad++ recently - I’m on v8.4.4.

Perhaps I’ll reinstall an earlier version and see whether that behaves any better.

Cheers, Peter.

@pnedev