@peterjones There’s no need for an apology, you’ve been a great deal of help in learning Notepad++ development. I truly appreciate all of the demonstrations you’ve provided and they were very helpful. I would advise you not to take a break from this forum, you’ve helped a lot and I am sure there are others that could use your assistance. I can be a bit hard headed at times which can lead to frustration and I am sorry for that. Have a great one! : - )

@alan-kilborn You’re exactly correct, this has been a great learning experience for me regarding Notepad++ plugin development. I plan to continue improving my current plugins and write new ones. Once again thank you @Alan-Kilborn and @PeterJones for pointing me in the right direction, you’ve been helped a great deal! : - )

@peterjones Yeah that is my concern, I’m gonna work on this some more later to see if I can get the script all cleaned up so that is no longer an issue. Thanks for your help so far!

@alan-kilborn ,

Do we know of any workarounds in order to get good data?

Yes, like I showed above, editor.docLineFromVisible(editor.getFirstVisibleLine()), gives the actual document line number as derived from the display line number. Hence, the correct 75 that got printed on the second line in the final example box.

Addenda:

As implied in the editor section of the PythonScript docs when searching for “display line”, the visible line’s number is influenced by hidden lines and line wrapping. The “document line” is the real underlying line number for the line in the file. So there are a few conversion helpers: visibleFromDocLine converts the “document line” into the “display line”; docLineFromVisible converts the “display line” into “document line”; and wrapCount gives the number of “display lines” necessary to render the given “document line”. (All the other mentions of “display line” have to do with where HOME and END and their related commands end up.)

Similarly, if you want to set the first visible line (to scroll) based on an actual document line number, it would be editor.setFirstVisibleLine(editor.visibleFromDocLine(actualLineNumber))

@john-doe-1 said in PythonScript and Customize Toolbar Question:

if the user does not turn off Column Mode before closing Notepad++ the “Alt” key remains pressed, this is of course a bit of an issue. If you know of a way to detect when Notepad++ is tabbed out of or closed I would appreciate your help.

This is bringing the discussion back to the other script you hinted at in your first posting in this thread. See HERE for that other thread, and some ideas about the “Alt” key.

Hi, @chamzon-chamzon, @lycan-thrope, @peterjones and All,

OK… I understand that in real cases, this causes a complete failure of the regex engine :-(( Why ?

Well, let’s suppose the temporary file containing, first, your entire firewall configuration file followed with your entire IP-adresses list file

Now, imagine the worst case : an unique match between the first IP-address of your firewall configuration file and the last IP-address of your IP-adresses list

Then, and despite I use a non-capturing regex group, the part of the regex (?s:.*?...) represents all the characters, included line-endings, right after the first IP-address till the same IP-address excluded, at the very end of file

As you said that your firewall configuration file has about 68,000 lines, it’s easy to guess that it probably exceeds the capacity of the regex engine to handle such a gap of chars !!

So, in order to find out, somehow, a work-around to this situation, could you give me :

The number of lines of your firewall configuration file and its approximate size

The number of lines of your IP-addreses list and its approximate size

A short example of your real firewall configuration file

A short example of your real IP-addresses list

In order to get the raw text, click on that button, when writing your post, to insert text in the right way !

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Thanks for your time to collect these infos !

Best Regards,

guy038

@klaus-isbruchdn try disabling the XML tools --> Enable XML syntax auto-check

@e5584071

Can you follow the steps above to obtain and install it, or do you really need someone to walk you through the process specifically with the Compare plugin?

@PeterJones Thanks for your input and search advice, it is much appreciated. @Alan-Kilborn Yeah that is what I ended up doing, funny we had the same thought. The loading screen seems to be too much of a time sink for right now. Maybe later on in development.

@chcg I would say it is pretty far from usable currently, and I have plans to add some libraries to it (including pandas) in the near future, thanks for the suggestion though : - )

@richard-devenezia

One word: Analyse (plugin)

I believe you could use the NPPN_FILEOPENED notification and check the filename to see if it’s a new file (it will have no path and just a name like “new 1”). Then run your code to have the user select a template and insert text.

Alternatively, you could just create a menu command for your plugin that lets the user select a template, then create a new file with that template text. Also note that the user can bind shortcut keys to plugin menu items.

Please try NppExec20220406 under https://sourceforge.net/projects/npp-plugins/files/NppExec/NppExec Plugin (dev)/

@john-doe-1 said in Adding Libraries to PythonScript Plugin:

point me to a more specific forum for Pandas

Hmm, can’t say I’ve ever used one.
I searched it up; apparently a “more important” pandas is a medical condition. And of course the cute bears…

But I did find this one, no idea of its quality: https://community.developers.refinitiv.com/tags/pandas.html

I’m sure some more intensive searching will provide others.

@alan-kilborn said in Icons in Menus.:

Issue created

When I said this, I was meaning an issue requesting the native support.

@martin-honnen ,

I do not believe that you can have access from the plugin to the custom file dialog already compiled into Notepad++.exe – at least, it doesn’t seem to be exposed by any of the API commands, and I don’t know of a way for a DLL to access a function from the parent EXE.

That said, rather than fully implementing your own version, you might just be able to copy the source code for the CustomFileDialog, and compile it as part of your plugin’s DLL. I know, it has downsides (if they changed the source code, you would have to change your source code, rather than just calling their function), but it might be easier than completely re-implementing.

Or you could just use a win32api-standard file-selection dialog, like GetOpenFileName or GetSaveFileName rather than NPP’s customized version.

Caveat: I am not a plugin-authoring expert, though I have dealt heavily with the NPP messaging API, and know a tiny bit about generic win32 coding.

@alan-kilborn & @Ekopalypse ,

After getting back from the coast, I confirmed that

import ctypes notepad.hwnd = ctypes.windll.user32.FindWindowW(u'Notepad++', None) nppv = ctypes.windll.user32.SendMessageW(notepad.hwnd, 1024+1000+50,0,0) console.write("NPP v{}.{}\n".format(nppv>>16, nppv&0xFFFF)) ctypes.windll.user32.SendMessageW(notepad.hwnd, 1024+1000+104, u'GEDCOM', 2) mode = ctypes.c_ssize_t(0) ctypes.windll.user32.SendMessageW(notepad.hwnd, 1024+1000+103, u'GEDCOM', ctypes.pointer(mode)) mode.value

did what I wanted in old PythonScript, so it was a matter of the missing unicode marker. Which probably means that the reason my compiled version failed was probably that it wasn’t in UTF-16-LE like it should have been. But it gives me a lead, and I know in my PerlScript source code what I need to do to make sure that I send the string as UTF-16-LE.

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I am asking if anyone can write such a plugin for payment.