@Guido-Thelen

This file in JsonTools contains a lot of the helper code you would need to make your forms compatible with NPP’s more recent releases.

As you may notice from reading the file, making your forms compliant with NPP’s expectations introduces a lot of frustrating issues, but IMO this is just the cost of maintaining a C# plugin.

@martin-honnen said in Any idea why self compiled plugin works on "normal" Windows 11 but doesn't in Windows Sandbox?:

The referenced module was not found.

The sandboxed version of Windows seems to have fewer core libraries than the “full” version, The operating system is saying that your plugin wants to call a function in a core library which is not installed.

Try setting the Windows API level in the Visual C++ project file by defining the _WIN32_WINNT and the NTDDI_VERSION macros to a Windows release that predates Win10: https://learn.microsoft.com/windows/win32/winprog/using-the-windows-headers

See, for example, how Notepad++ defines both to target Windows 7 (the oldest version it supports).

Worst case, you may have to to seek out the exact version of Visual Studio the XMLTool author was using.

@Alan-Kilborn
Yes! Now its a beauty…

I’ve just commited the unreleased JsonTools v8.2.0.3 that hopefully fixes the issue described in my previous comment. Did my commit fix it? I have no idea, 🤷!

Same deal as in my previous comment: please upvote this comment if and only if you notice that JsonTools v8.2.0.3 reformats 11.11 as 11.109999999999999. Don’t upvote this comment for any other reason; that way, I’ll know that this is still an issue if I get upvotes.

@Eric-Schetselaar ,
Like @Mark-Olson says, at least for Syntax Highlighting, the UDL is about your best bet if any, and that probably means you’d have to create your own. (fun!!) Not sure what prompting means in this usage.

Unlike @Mark-Olson , I hadn’t heard about this language, but the quick view I had, looks like the UDL could handle it. It’s got essentially a Class/Function style that is similar to most OOP language implementations.

If by prompting, you mean Autocompletion or FunctionList capability, that’s even more work, but doable, since the language looks like most others, it just needs to be structured into a Notepad++ UDL structure system…but as @Mark-Olson suggests, there might already be capable editors for that specialization already, since it’s under the Meta banner, they could provide it. If you’re simply looking for an alternative, then roll up your sleeves and get to work. :-)

@PeterJones keeping the 2 Listboxes might be OK as well since I have mocked it recently.

NppListToCombo2.png

Left side and center same as my previous post. The right side displays 2 listboxes with 8 items per list being visible. Either of the 2 alternatives appear wider as can be seen in the image.

Here is the AutoIt3 sources if anyone wants to play with them. Just need the AutoIt3 interpreter which can get from downloading the Zip file and extract AutoIt3.exe or AutoIt3_x64.exe.

; about: With 1 ComboBox and 1 Listbox. Global Const $CBS_DROPDOWNLIST = 0x3 Global Const $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE = -3 Global Const $WS_VSCROLL = 0x00200000 Global Const $WS_CAPTION = 0x00C00000 GUICreate('Style Configurator', 750, 405, -1, -1, $WS_CAPTION) GUICtrlCreateLabel('Select theme:', 67, 15) GUICtrlCreateCombo('Default (stylers.xml)', 142, 15, 160, Default, $CBS_DROPDOWNLIST) GUICtrlCreateGroup('', 10, 45, 250, 345) GUICtrlCreateLabel('Language:', 20, 60) GUICtrlCreateCombo('Global Styles', 20, 85, 230, Default, $CBS_DROPDOWNLIST) GUICtrlSetData(Default, 'ActionScript|ADA|ASN.1|ASP') GUICtrlCreateLabel('Style:', 20, 120) GUICtrlCreateList('Default Style', 20, 145, 230, 180, $WS_VSCROLL) GUICtrlSetData(Default, 'Indent guideline style|Brace highlight style|Bad brace colour' & _ '|Current line background|Selected text colour|Multi-selected text color' & _ '|Caret colour|Multi-edit carets color|Edge colour|Line number margin' & _ '|Bookmark margin|Change History margin|Change History modified' & _ '|Change History revert modified|Change History revert origin' & _ '|Change History saved|Fold|Fold active' & _ '|1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9|10|11|12|13|14|15|16|17|18|19|20') $idExit = GUICtrlCreateButton('Exit', 650, 365, 80) GUISetState() While 1 Switch GUIGetMsg() Case $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE, $idExit Exit EndSwitch WEnd ; about: With 2 Listboxes Global Const $CBS_DROPDOWNLIST = 0x3 Global Const $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE = -3 Global Const $WS_VSCROLL = 0x00200000 Global Const $WS_CAPTION = 0x00C00000 GUICreate('Style Configurator', 750, 405, -1, -1, $WS_CAPTION) GUICtrlCreateLabel('Select theme:', 67, 15) GUICtrlCreateCombo('Default (stylers.xml)', 142, 15, 160, Default, $CBS_DROPDOWNLIST) GUICtrlCreateGroup('', 10, 45, 250, 345) GUICtrlCreateLabel('Language:', 20, 60) GUICtrlCreateList('Global Styles', 20, 80, 230, 120, $WS_VSCROLL) GUICtrlSetData(Default, 'ActionScript|ADA|ASN.1|ASP|Assembly|AutoIt|AviSynth' & _ '|1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9|10|11|12|13|14|15|16|17|18|19|20') GUICtrlCreateLabel('Style:', 20, 195) GUICtrlCreateList('Default Style', 20, 215, 230, 120, $WS_VSCROLL) GUICtrlSetData(Default, 'Indent guideline style|Brace highlight style|Bad brace colour' & _ '|Current line background|Selected text colour|Multi-selected text color' & _ '|Caret colour|Multi-edit carets color|Edge colour|Line number margin' & _ '|Bookmark margin|Change History margin|Change History modified' & _ '|Change History revert modified|Change History revert origin' & _ '|Change History saved|Fold|Fold active' & _ '|1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9|10|11|12|13|14|15|16|17|18|19|20') $idExit = GUICtrlCreateButton('Exit', 650, 365, 80) GUISetState() While 1 Switch GUIGetMsg() Case $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE, $idExit Exit EndSwitch WEnd

I didn’t type the full list of items as it is just mocking the Style Configurator Dialog for display purposes.

@PeterJones

option 1 is most likely, but one time it happened when i restarted notepad++ himself
i will backup the file you told me

Hi NCalu,

i like your plugin and have it on my watchlist. Want to try it out, but didn’t had the time yet.

Personaly i work only with Sinumerik Controllers. Looking at your G-Code, it looks more like Fanuc or Mitsubishi Style G-Code programing. However the preview is a really nice feature.

Can the plugin handle unexpected commands, which are possible only on certain controllers e.g. Sinumerik G-Codes, Functions, Cycles e.g like Cycle61(,…,) for face milling and so on?

@PeterJones Hi Peter, thanks for pointing me to this feature, did’t know it existed! Indeed probably a good candidate to have this enabled by default, doesn;t hurt.

@Bert-Nieuwenampsen said in "} else {" as a new section:

Can I adjust this somewhere in Notepad++?

Notepad++ uses the Lexilla IP by Scintilla for syntax highlighting and folding. Apparently, the PowerShell lexer has a property called fold.at.else, but Notepad++ doesn’t currently set that option. If Notepad++ were to set that true on PowerShell documents (by setting that property in setPowerShellLexer()), then it would allow folding at } else { for PowerShell.

So if someone (you) were to follow the instructions in our Feature Request FAQ, and make an official request, it could be turned on, or a preference could be added to allow the user to toggle it. Then, if the developer thought it was a good idea, it might eventually be added to Notepad++.

Until that happens, you could use the PythonScript plugin to toggle that setting:

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vs
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To be able to automatically do that, you could edit (or create) your user startup.py to include

from Npp import editor, notepad, LANGTYPE, NOTIFICATION def cb_pwshFoldAtElse(args): if notepad.getCurrentLang() == LANGTYPE.POWERSHELL: editor.setProperty("fold.at.else", 1) notepad.callback(cb_pwshFoldAtElse, [NOTIFICATION.BUFFERACTIVATED])

(For more on PythonScript and the user startup.py, and the need to set ATSTARTUP instead of LAZY for my instructions to work, see our FAQ: How to install and run a script in PythonScript)

@Alan-Kilborn said in Prevent file loading:

I don’t believe NPPM_DOOPEN or WM_OPEN do the job, though.

I doubt that too

@clach04
To “really” not open a file before it is read, Npp must support this internally, which is not yet the case.

@Khundian-Twitch
Hello, can you please put your script back please? I need to create one for a very specific langage of an IBM tool and your work can really help me.

Thank you,
Regards

Thank you guys for the quick answers

@Alan-Kilborn said in æøå ÆØÅ Python in Notepad++ with NppExec Norwegian, Icelandic, Danish and the Faroe Islands:

You can write in the NPPExec Console window?? I didn’t even know that!

Yeah this was me having an “omg, that’s cool” / “I am an idiot” moment ^^ It might have been lost in translation though and can easily be misinterpreted as something else. If so i am sorry.

@Alan-Kilborn said in æøå ÆØÅ Python in Notepad++ with NppExec Norwegian, Icelandic, Danish and the Faroe Islands:

Do something (intro). Literally the first way to do something says “using NppExec’s Console allows you to enter some command and execute it by pressing Enter”.

English is not my first language so that pretty much went straight over my head. I interpreted this as “making a .txt or .py file (or any file used for the console)” and writing the command line there and sending it to the console. Not as pressing the mouse inside the console and using it as a “command prompt/terminal” since that is not what i set out to do in the first place.

@Alan-Kilborn said in æøå ÆØÅ Python in Notepad++ with NppExec Norwegian, Icelandic, Danish and the Faroe Islands:

There used to be a common sense thing that when you’re starting to use something new, you do at least a glance-through of its manual. I’m probably old school, though.

If one is doing something they want to learn and set out to do so then ofc read the manual! But for my use, nah i see that as an waste of time in my matter. Yet i did go into the link and glance over it. Remember i made this post to help my future self and hopefully others, not be schooled in how to use npp/python. All though i do appreciate all the help that has been given! And i am sure others will too!

@Alan-Kilborn said in æøå ÆØÅ Python in Notepad++ with NppExec Norwegian, Icelandic, Danish and the Faroe Islands:

It also pays to be a bit humble when others are trying to help; makes the whole process smoother.

I believe I’ve been more then “a bit” humble in this thread. But yeah you are right, this thread did not go very smoothly.

@Simon-Hottentot ,

The officially-reported issue #15831 appears to be showing the same symptom. You may want to add your description to that issue so that the Developer will see it (as per our FAQ, the Developer doesn’t look here for bug reports), because it seems to add more information that #15831 doesn’t yet include.

@HEPBHbIU_KAPJICOH said in Translate plugin:

Is it possible to add Ukrainian language?

Looks like it already does include Ukrainian: https://sourceforge.net/p/npptranslate/code/HEAD/tree/nppTranslateCS/MyMemoryTranslateEngine.cs#l102

There’s also a slightly updated 64-bit version on GitHub with all the same languages: https://github.com/databird/npptranslate64/releases

@Coises said in [New plugin] Columns++:

@Pete-Run said in [New plugin] Columns++:

So my request would be an option to “Elastically Ignore” lines with no tabs.

Columns++ | Profile… | Do not allow text following the last tab on a line to span columns. should not be checked for the example given.

AhHa, I am not sure that I understand “Do not allow text following the last tab on a line to span columns” but that works niceley, thanks.

I still don’t quite understand your use case. What is it you are trying to do that would be easier if elastic tabstop positions were shown only for selected lines?

I only occasionally use NPP for NPP shortcuts.xml, some Lua, AHK etc. I was brought up on IBM mainframe early Text editors and JCL etc, so I am at home with text editors so am happy to use it for text manipulation, especially when Ms Word macros are lacking.

My main gripe with tabs in textual situations is that they can “mess up/misalign” when copied between applications, hence my desire to sometimes use monospace fonts with spaces rather than tabs and of course in tables a word processor, but many situations do not afford tables.

So, thanks again for your Columns++ and Elastic Tabs which helps keep my text aligned in different scenarios.

For all of you who are interested in: A new version 1.8.0.12 is released and available.

PlantUML version updated to 1.2024.8 Removed dependency to PlantUml.Net library Removed dependency to Fizzler library Added generated file information to support built in %filename() and %dirpath() preprocessor functions Fixed diagram background not set e.g. if white

You can download it at the 1.8.0.12 release or just wait to the next Notepad++ update to get it with the plugin manager.

@TedTester ,

HexPat…Is this fancy XML?
The last one has a file extension of “hexpat”.

Never heard of a standard filetype that uses that extension.

A quick internet search tells me that maybe it’s a file that goes with the ImHex application, and here is an example – it doesn’t look at all like XML to me, so if that’s the format, the answer to your title is “no, it is not fancy XML”. It looks a lot more like a C source-code file (and, from my research, appears to be a config-style file for the ImHex open-source hex-editor app, which it uses to help it interpret specific binary formats).

But I cannot know if that filetype is the same as the .hexpat file you found, because you were rather nebulous (other than you thought it looked like fancy XML, which makes me doubt it, because to my mind, the example I found and what you described are two very different formats)

If I were looking at that kind of .hexpat file, I would choose the C lexer: Settings > Style Configurator > Language: C, add hexpat to the User ext.: box, then every time you load a *.hexpat file, it would choose the C lexer for syntax highlighting.

If it really looks more like <tagName attrib="value"><nested id="12345">text</nested><single setting="false" /></tagName>, then I would add that value in the User ext.: box for XML instead of C.

Edit: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/hexpat-0.12

That link is about a library for the Haskell programming language which is used to parse XML. It is not a description of a file format or of a unique programming language, so it might have nothing to do with the .hexpat file you found – or maybe that library uses a .hexpat as an intermediate filetype (but the page you linked doesn’t say it does, and nothing I see there leads me to believe that the library and the extension are in any way linked; given that the other code in this repo you found are python files, I’d be surprised if there was also a file related to a haskell library).

Can you share a link to the .hexpat file itself?

Didn’t know if it is on the list to be added or not.

Notepad++ does not have a “list of languages to be added”. Notepad++ uses the library called “Lexilla” to handle that part of the codebase, so if the Lexilla project were updated to handle the .hexpat text-based file format specifically, then Notepad++ would have access to it … and once it was part of Lexilla, then someone could request that the Notepad++ developers add in the support for it. (Not that it’s relevant at this point in time, but a post in the Community of Notepad++ users is not the right place for feature requests, as our FAQ explains. But you are nowhere near the level of being ready to even officially make a feature request, so don’t worry about it for now.)

Unless the .hexpat file extension were a lot more common than it appears to be (based on the lack of solid information about it, and possible collisions in the “hexpat” namespace across the internet), it is doubtful that it’s “important” enough to get added to Lexilla and thus would not propagate to Notepad++ either.

For languages not found in Notepad++'s built-in language list, users are expected to:

find a language that’s close enough: for example, parsing a header-looking file format like I linked with the C lexer, or an XML-based fileformat with the XML lexer, using the User ext box to associate that extension with a specific language, as I described above use the User Defined Language feature to add simple keyword-based syntax highlighting write (or commission someone to write) a lexer plugin