@Ekopalypse , @Alan-Kilborn , and others,

I think the difference is that in the situation called, there are two layers: there’s the NppExec script, which is being called by the shortcut; then the NppExec is using SendMessage to activate the PythonScript menu from a “click the menu equivalent”.

So while the shortcut is associated with the NppExec script, it’s keys are still “active” when the menu is “clicked”, so the PS check of “am I being Ctrl+Clicked” sees the Ctrl from the NppExec shortcut and the click from the NppExec SendMessage.

Whereas, when you just run a PythonScript with a keyboard shortcut, it isn’t also getting the “clicked” attribute.

At least, that’s what I’ve gathered from the evidence given in this dicsussion; I could easily be wrong.

@rdipardo Oh wow that worked great!

Really appreciate the time you guys took to help me, thanks!

@Vitalii-Dovgan If you preserve a file’s modified time stamp then Notepad++ does not notice it has changed. Thus it’s possible to sneak in and make changes without triggering the pop-up.

Of course, that also means Notepad++'s in-memory copy of an open file would be out of sync with with what’s on disk. If you do File / Reload from Disk then Notepad++ will pick up the new file contents. Reload from Disk is also available in the right click menu for the file’s tab.

@pnedev Sorry for necroposting, but why no one said magic words “Group policies”? Chromium (and Chrome ofc) extensively uses this feature. Yes, in order to use this feature Notepad++ should provide administrative templates, but it is not that hard.

@Alexander-Verbitsky Congratulations!

@Vitalii-Dovgan said in Auto paste the selected text automatically into One File:

I’ve found the idea of the Clipboard Monitor to be interesting enough to experiment with and to include it into NppExec Manual.

You are amazing! I simply could not use Notepad++ without NppExec.

Cheers.

@rdipardo said in New version of HTML Tag:

By urgent request,

My “urgent request” and thank you for promptly adding this feature. Certainly not expected to be this quick, but you are a very talented and dedicated developer and I do appreciate your commitment to Notepad++ and supporting the plugin ecosystem.

This will certainly make my workflow (currently involves creating / editing XML schemas and docs) much easier as the tags update and change in the flux of this development period and auto-selecting the matching tags (sometimes far away in the document and nested) for renaming saves so much manual time.

Cheers.

@Michael-Vincent said in Catching the SCN_UPDATEUI event in Plugin:

Why not just do it the “plugin recommended way” (as per the Notepad++ example plugin):

Thxs, Michael. Your suggestion was exactly what I needed. It was simpler than I initially thought, yet I spent hours figuring it out.

I couldn’t get the plugin to do anything, for either Python or C++. :-(

I make a selection, then press the toolbar button and nothing happens.

I notice the plug hijacks Ctrl+q. I’m a believer that plugins should never assign keycombos.

@theshoeshiner did you guys compare the options for XML Tools?
There’s quite a number of settings there that would affect the result.

@istec ,
You need to go to the plugin authors github site or website and make this specific request. This forum is a group of like users that help each other, we are not developers that can make changes you throw out in a request. Please check your plugin’s Help/About information to reach the author.

@Pat-Sinclair-0
Go to repo with plugin issue if you haven’t already.

if I had a penny for every time I said something like this to somebody posting about a plugin issue on the community forum… (don’t worry OP, I’m not mad at you, just amused at how often I say something to this effect)

A PythonScript plugin would be the best approach. I suggest starting with the NeoVim plugin, which is just a Python module. Most of the APIs provided by pynvim.api.nvim should have Scintilla equivalents in PythonScript’s API modules. If not, you could make a contribution to PythonScript by patching them in. (Neo)Vim is years ahead of N++ in terms of a fully integrated Python subsystem.

@General-Coder said in Context menu via code:

So is the only way SendMessage?

If by that you mean using Windows API calls which deal with menus, then the answer is yes.

@rdipardo said in Plugin Docking Panel floating / docked detection:

DMN_FLOAT and DMN_DOCK are passed as the code member of a NMHDR struct, which you intercept by hooking the WM_NOTIFY message.

Indeed. This all makes sense now. I’m overriding the default run_dlgProc() in “DockingDlgInterface.h”. So what I need to do in my run_dlgProc() is if I don’t process the WM_NOTIFY, call the default one:

DockingDlgInterface::run_dlgProc( message, wParam, lParam );

Works now! Thank you all - have a great weekend!

Cheers.

@flacy1 ,

Your request is hard to understand.

Some time back, the author tried turning on automatic backups by default, and he immediately got a huge backlash from angry users, so he went back to the current settings as default.

As with any piece of editing software, the best idea is for you to investigate all the backup options available, and to set them to what works for your backup needs. See our FAQ: https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/21782/faq-desk-periodic-backup-vs-autosave-plugin

@wonkawilly Thanks a Lot! :)