Announcement: Notepad++ plugin pack for C# v0.90 released
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Writing plugins for Notepad++ using C#/.Net has never been easier with this new plugin pack.
https://github.com/kbilsted/NotepadPlusPlusPluginPack.Net/releases
Highlights
- Based on UFO’s dated plugin pack
- Upgraded with more than 5000 lines of code - making interaction with Notepad++ and Scintilla less low-level.
- Interfaces have been introduced so you can not unit test your plugins.
- Future upgrades of the package is ensured to be simple
The main contribution in this release is the introduction of the classes NotepadPlusPlusGateway and ScintillaGateWay. These gateways provide a much nicer interaction with Notepad++ for the plugin writer.
The old architecture of plugins were something similar to the below picture:
+-----------+ +-----------+ | scintilla | | Notepad++ | +-----------+ +-----------+ ^ ^ | | +-------------+ | +-----------+ | Win32 | +-----------+ ^ | +-----------+ | plugin | +-----------+Plugins would interact with a “Win32” lowlevel api to do calls.
The new architecture:
+-----------+ +-----------+ | scintilla | | Notepad++ | +-----------+ +-----------+ ^ ^ | | +--------+--------+----+------------+ | | | +------------------+ +----------------+ +-----------+ | scintillaGateway | | NotepadGateway | | Win32 | +------------------+ +----------------+ +-----------+ ^ ^ ^ | | | +-----------------+---+----------------+ | +-----------+ | plugin | +-----------+So as you can see, you still have access to the low-level stuff as you are used to, while at the same time being able to use the nice gateway classes.
Go to: https://github.com/kbilsted/NotepadPlusPlusPluginPack.Net/releases