Alain, You’re correct, I started testing exclusively in Dark Mode and haven’t gotten to Light Mode yet. Your screenshot is exactly what I was trying to achieve… I have avoided diving into NPP’s code until now, as it might be too time-consuming.

Thanks for the useful links and info. I’m eager to test them out and see how they help. However, you have a point - maybe it’s best to ignore color issues for now since Dark Mode doesn’t fully support them yet. And colors are not part of the key functionality.

Also, while implementing, I noticed a couple of bugs related to themes. One is a refreshing problem with comboboxes (not selected lines are pitch black) only in Light Mode (but surprisingly not happening in all Windows installations), and the other is about the color scheme of a disabled list in Dark Mode. I’ll report these on Github.

@General-Coder said in Project plugin functionality:

but they are pain to read

Nobody here wants to spoon-feed you. Sorry.

The “bookmarking” feature may also be of assistance for something like this; see either the Search menu’s Bookmark submenu, or right-click the “sweet spot” for the bookmark margin between the line number and the text editing area:

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The idea, when you need to jump between 2 (or more) disjointed sections of a file, is that you’d set a bookmark near those sections (with Ctrl+F2) and then jump between them with F2 and Shift+F2.

@Bas-de-Reuver said in nppPluginList npp-compatible-versions and old-versions-compatibility parameters:

I was a bit surprised that the latest version of CSV Lint also ran on the oldest Notepad++ v8.2 that I tested, it didn’t crash and worked just fine.

Not surprising if you consider that N++ doesn’t actually know what lexer functions it’s looking for. It calls them through function pointers, which are nothing but pointers to void. All that any C++ app can do is dereference them and hope there’s a real function at the other end.

As long as current versions of your plugin export GetLexerCount, GetLexerName and the (now obsolete) GetLexerFactory and GetLexerStatusText, that’s enough to pass in pre-8.4 N++ versions. One of my own plugins was backported all the way to v7.7 by exporting a stub of GetLexerFactory that simply returns 0.

FYI, the real maintainer of LuaWoW just released version 10.0.7: https://github.com/Grogir/LuaWoW/releases

Thank you @PeterJones,
Based on the link you sent, It looks like there is an issue with the Power Automate setup.
The problem was solved by deleting Microsoft.Flow.RPA.Desktop.UIAutomation.Java.Bridge.Native from the accessibility.properties file

Issue resolved!!!
Thank you very much for the help!

@Mark-Olson said in Determining if the active document is mono-spaced:

The potential pitfall I see here is weird stuff like BEL and ENQ that are technically ASCII but are represented as big boxes in Notepad++. So you’d probably have to exclude those in your calculation.

Good point — even if all the fonts in use are fixed pitch, this case (and probably others) could yield an exception. At this point I’m thinking the practical answer will be to get a good guess as to whether the file is “mostly” mono-spaced, and then find a way to identify and adjust for the exceptions as they scroll into view.

Thanks.

@Ron-Edmonds ,

I have no problem downloading a Hunspell dictionary.

Which version of DSpellCheck are you using? I tried with v1.4.24 and it worked, and then saw there was a new version, and updated to v1.5.0, and it still worked.

Or maybe you are on a computer that needs Proxy Settings – the Connection Settings button in the Download Dictionaries Dialog allows you to set up a proxy.

If you’re using Windows 7, maybe it doesn’t properly allow https through whatever libraries DSpellCheck is using for the download. In which case, maybe there is an older version that still works with your Notepad++ v8.4.2, but will use an older library for doing the download, which will be compatible with Win 7. (Just a guess. Remember, technically, Notepad++ officially says that Windows 7 “can run” but is not supported. And I don’t know what DSpellCheck policy is on that out-of-support OS.)

@rdipardo
Cool! I’m going to run with your example and see about writing something that just automatically applies good dark mode styling to all the controls in any arbitrary WinForm rather than having to specify which controls get which colors.

Описание
I have a project that may interest you jn-npp-scripts. He rudely responds some functionality you mentioned. The main language of this project is Javascript.

The project was built on the basis of another project ( jn-npp-plugin ).

@swegmike ,

JSTools 1.2205 x64 installs just fine in a fresh Notepad++ v8.5.2, and is not incompatible.

There are times when you have done upgrades in the wrong order, or upgrade across too many versions of Notepad++ or a plugin, where it might say it’s incompatible. (Or if you have tried to manually install the 64bit plugin for the 32bit Notepad++, or vice versa.) And sometimes, Plugins Admin is not able to request the correct permissions necessary to uninstall a plugin when it’s gotten itself into that weird state. If you are in that weird situation, then sometimes it is required to manually delete the DLL before you re-install the correct version.

jstools.dll is incompatible and asking to remove it by selecting “yest”… I must manually delete the dll in the plugins directory for Json.

What version of JSTool were you using before you tried to uninstall the incompatible one? Because the JSTool plugin, as seen at its home at https://github.com/sunjw/jstoolnpp, uses the DLL known as Plugins\JSMinNpp\JSMinNpp.dll. Please note it is not JSTools.dll, and it is not a Json directory. (Being precise when you ask questions will help you get more meaningful answers.)

@PeterJones,

(I’m also really surprised that Michael’s code worked for him a few years ago; I don’t believe the definition of the MASK field of SCI_MARKERNEXT has changed in the last three years.)

Nevermind. The definition of Notepad++'s MARK_BOOKMARK has changed in the last three years. Specifically, in v8.4.6 in Sept 2022, it was changed from 24 to 20 to work with Scintilla 5.3.0.

So just changing that single line to

SET LOCAL MASK ~ 1<<20

would have been sufficient.

In case you don’t understand: 3 years ago, when Michael wrote the script, bookmarks used mark#24, so SET LOCAL MASK ~ 1<<24 set the mask to 0x1000000, so if bit #24 matched, it would say the line number.

With v8.4.6 and newer, that marker is in bit #20, so if you only are looking at bit#24, it’s not going to find it. Your code, with 0xFFFFFF on the other hand, was looking at all marker numbers from 0 to 23, so it would find marker#20 as the bookmark line. But it would also find any of the other markers on those lines, even the ones that aren’t bookmarks – so it would find markers you weren’t looking for. If you file happened to have other marker types – like if you had any hidden lines due to View > Hide Lines or code folding in your active lexer – then it would report false matches.

Marker Number References Scintilla reserves #25-31 for folding margins Scintilla reserves #21-24 for Change History Notepad++ reserves #16-20 for “internal use” (specifically, 18 & 19 for hidden lines, and 20 for bookmarks, with two more for future use) Notepad++ allows #0-15 for plugins to use, but makes no guarantee that two plugins won’t try to make use of the same marker.

Wait a minute, I just realised that it is converting a bytebuffer to a string and then back to a byte buffer. It should just convert the content buffer straight to a byte array and work with that.

I’ve tested it with the code page 936 and 1252 and it seems to work correctly in both cases.

@James-McNamee said in Plugin Admin... window positioning:

The “Plugin Admin…” window position is locked. It cannot be moved to a new screen position.

Not exactly sure what you mean by this, could you post a screenshot maybe? I can freely move the dialog around the screen with the mouse. On a Windows setup with multiple monitors, it can even be dragged to the different monitors.

When you open Settings > Preferences or Settings > Style Configurator, do you have the same issue with those dialogs? Or how about the Notepad++ window itself, can you resize and move that?

@Manie-Beneke said in Grammarly Plugin:

@Prahlad-Makwana4145
Since this discussion, has any new consideration been given to integrating Grammarly into Notepad ++?
Combining the two platforms would create a valuable tool and be hugely beneficial if provided as an integrated mobile cloud service.

A quick look at Grammarly for developers suggests that Grammarly is based on web technologies. This would be difficult (if possible at all) to connect to Notepad++, which is a C++/WinAPI program. It’s also not open source, and since Notepad++ uses the GNU GPL, integrating it without violating one license or the other might be tricky. None of that is to say it couldn’t be done… but don’t hold your breath. I’d say the chances of someone choosing to tackle this one are very low. It’s not a good fit.

I tried GetConsoleMode/SetConsoleMode - these funcions are rather for real console (e.g. in a console application or when a console is created explicitly by means of AllocConsole and so on) than for a PseudoConsole. Anyway, it was worth to try since I didn’t have other ideas.

Eventually I’ve asked another developer for advice since he uses PseudoConsole in his Python code:
https://github.com/veksha/cuda_exterminal/issues/51
From his clarifications, NppExec must support ANSI escape codes to deal with PseudoConsole properly. Which, in its turn, returns us to this:
https://github.com/d0vgan/nppexec/issues/14
The circle closed up :)
So it looks like NppExec requires additional code that will handle the ANSI escape codes.

@megaboich said in [new plugin] JavaScript Map Parser:

Hi everyone,

Initially this plugin was developed for Visual Studio, and now it is available also for Notepad++.
It shows the code structure of your JavaScript file in a separated panel in tree-view form. Code structure includes function definitions(including anonymous) and hierarchy.
More documentation is available for Visual Studio version, functionality is the same.
https://github.com/megaboich/js-map-parser/wiki/Functionality-Guide

Prerequisites: .Net framework 4.0 must be installed.

I have created release with plugin dll here:
https://github.com/megaboich/js-map-parser/releases/tag/v4.0.2-npp

I would really appreciate any help in making this plugin available in Notepad++ Plugin Manager.

Visit this: https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/10738/changement-could-impact-plugins-for-javascript

@JaZnam-Fore said in TextViz - hide lines without clipboard text do not work:

I really do not understand why someone who has already got necessary skills does not help others and simply give a link to the compiled binaries containing the fix.

Who’s this someone you’re talking about?

@PeterJones
thanks, I got it!

@Mark-Olson ,
Agreed. This is one of the biggest reasons many of my fellow dBASE users wanted a Notepad++ UDL for the dBASE Language, and one fellow in particular.
This and word wrap in NPP makes it easy for them to track/find matching open/close delimiters when they make complex commands in dBASE that uses a combination of square brackets, curly brackets and parnthesis when making complex SQL strings for access to backend databases formatted for the dBASE frontend for sending/receiving data.