Macro for ANSI encoding

Nicole Sigaud

Hello all, I am struggling with this macro - which came out all wrong. I have 200+ text files that I need to import to another software, but it requires the imported to be ANSI. I recorded as follows:
Ctrl+A
Ctrl+C
Convert to ANSI
Ctrl+V (just in case some characters became crazy)
Save
Close
The macro did not work, and opening the shortcuts.xml file I saw that many commands were not recorded (the ones requiring buttons to be pushed)
Just for the record, the files are written in Brasilian Portuguese…
Can anyone please tell me what did I do worng here? Thanks

Claudia Frank

@Nicole-Sigaud

as you already found out, macro recording sometimes doesn’t record all needed steps.
If this happens you can use the …\notepad++\localization\english.xml file to find the
message ids needed and edit shortcuts.xml like this

    <Macro name="Convert to ansi" Ctrl="no" Alt="no" Shift="no" Key="0">
        <Action type="0" message="2013" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="" />
        <Action type="0" message="2178" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="" />
        <Action type="2" message="0" wParam="45009" lParam="0" sParam=""/>
        <Action type="0" message="2179" wParam="0" lParam="0" sParam="" />
    </Macro>

The message 45009 is doing the conversion, the others were recorded.

Cheers
Claudia

Nicole Sigaud

Thanks a lot, I’m trying this out.

Nicole Sigaud

Claudia, isn’t it possible to save and close? I still have doubts about the difference between the Action types - is it that type=“2” refers solely to wParam number listed on items id from “english.xml” file?

Claudia Frank

@Nicole-Sigaud

if you edit shorcuts.xml you need to restart npp to make it happen.
In regards to the different action types you might want to take a look
here.

Cheers
Claudia