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    • Scott SumnerS
      Scott Sumner @Claudia Frank
      last edited by

      So the ideas presented here by @Claudia-Frank I think will allow me to stop using AutoIt in favor of Pythonscript for controlling the Find dialog functions. It seems very nice. To bring this thread back to where it began, here’s a P.S. based upon Claudia’s work that puts the current selection (which can include multiple lines) into the Find dialog’s Replace-with box. The part of it I question for general usage is the .decode('utf-8') – it seems to work for me, but I’m not an encoding expert by any means.

      Here’s ReplaceWithBoxFromSelection.py :

      import ctypes
      from ctypes.wintypes import BOOL, HWND, LPARAM
      
      WNDENUMPROC = ctypes.WINFUNCTYPE(BOOL, HWND, LPARAM)
      
      FindWindow = ctypes.windll.user32.FindWindowW
      FindWindowEx = ctypes.windll.user32.FindWindowExW
      SendMessage = ctypes.windll.user32.SendMessageW
      EnumChildWindows = ctypes.windll.user32.EnumChildWindows
      GetClassName = ctypes.windll.user32.GetClassNameW
      GetWindowText = ctypes.windll.user32.GetWindowTextW
      GetWindowTextLength = ctypes.windll.user32.GetWindowTextLengthW
      SetWindowText = ctypes.windll.user32.SetWindowTextW
      create_unicode_buffer = ctypes.create_unicode_buffer
      
      replace_tab_caption  = u'Replace'
      replacewith_caption = u'Rep&lace with :'
      replacewith_is_next_ctrl = False
      replacewith_handle = None
      
      def EnumCallback(hwnd, lparam):
          global replacewith_is_next_ctrl
          global replacewith_handle
          curr_class = create_unicode_buffer(256)
          GetClassName(hwnd, curr_class, 256)
          length = GetWindowTextLength(hwnd)
          buff = ctypes.create_unicode_buffer(length + 1)
          GetWindowText(hwnd, buff, length + 1)
          if curr_class.value.lower() == 'static':
              if buff.value == replacewith_caption:
                  replacewith_is_next_ctrl = True
          elif curr_class.value.lower() == 'edit':
              if replacewith_is_next_ctrl:
                  replacewith_handle = hwnd
                  return False  # stop enumeration
          return True  # let enumeration continue
      
      def main():
          msg = ''
          if editor.getSelections() == 1 and not editor.getSelectionEmpty():
              sel = editor.getSelText()
              if len(sel) > 2046:
                  sel = sel[:2046]
                  msg += 'Warning:  Selected text too long for replace-with box; truncating to 2046 characters.  '
              notepad.menuCommand(MENUCOMMAND.SEARCH_REPLACE)
              find_dialog_hwnd = FindWindow(None, replace_tab_caption)
              if find_dialog_hwnd:
                  EnumChildWindows(find_dialog_hwnd, WNDENUMPROC(EnumCallback), 0)
                  if replacewith_handle:
                      if SetWindowText(replacewith_handle, sel.decode('utf-8')) == 0:
                          msg += 'Error:  Problem setting window text'
                  else:
                      msg += 'Error:  Bad value for replacewith_handle'
              else:
                  msg += 'Error:  Bad value for find_dialog_hwnd'
          else:
              msg += 'Warning:  Nothing to copy into replace-with field'
          if len(msg) > 0: notepad.messageBox(msg)
      
      main()
      
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      • Claudia FrankC
        Claudia Frank @Scott Sumner
        last edited by

        @Scott-Sumner

        The part of it I question for general usage is the .decode(‘utf-8’)

        I assume your way should work, regardless of the encoding used by the user,
        if I understand scintilla and pythonscript plugin correctly.
        editor.getSelText() always returns a byte string (python str) but, because we defined
        unicode version of SetWindowText, this string needs to be converted as you did.
        Maybe I’m wrong.

        Cheers
        Claudia

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        • Scott SumnerS
          Scott Sumner @Claudia Frank
          last edited by Scott Sumner

          @Claudia-Frank

          I did notice something else that was a bit odd (and drove me a little nuts until I figured out what was going on) when I was working on that script. Let’s see if I can describe it. Usually I work with English_customizable.xml loaded, and everything is consistent and as-expected. When working on that script, I switched back to English.xml, thinking that if I share the script here, it should not use my specific and custom Find dialog captions, but rather the generic English ones.

          With English configured, I noticed that when Notepad++ starts up, it doesn’t exactly have English.xml set up, it has something close to it, but not exactly! I found that if I go back into the Preferences, and again select English from the dropdown (even though it is already selected), and have the Find dialog up at the same time, I can watch subtle changes occur in the Find dialog’s label/caption fields. For example, and I can watch a space be inserted (or removed) between “Find what” and the colon that follows (same for “Replace with”. I really have no idea why this is happening. Again, this only happens with English.xml, not English_customizable.xml.

          The reason it was making me crazy was that I’d work on the script, have it working fine, then later I would notice it was breaking because it couldn’t find the controls. I kept changing the text strings to make it work and then later it would break again.

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          • guy038G
            guy038
            last edited by

            Hello, @scott-sumner and @claudia-frank,

            Claudia, your automatic counting of any normal selection, multi-lines or not, works fine !

            Scott, your ReplaceWithBoxFromSelection.py script is working nice, too !. I’ve just noticed that your script, automatically, copies the current normal and unique selection, BOTH, in the Find what : and in the Replace with: boxes. Is it the normal behaviour or am I wrong about it ?


            This topic makes me think about an other possibility ! Let’s suppose that the option Settings > Preferences…> Editing > Multi-Editing Settings is enabled

            Now, the goal would be :

            • To define TWO selected blocks of text, which could, independently, include multiple lines

            • To Write a Python script which :

              • Opens the Find/Replace dialog

              • Writes the first user selection, in the Find what: box

              • Writes the second user selection, in the Replace with: box

            Scott and Claudia, what is your feeling about it ?

            Best Regards,

            guy038

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            • Claudia FrankC
              Claudia Frank @guy038
              last edited by Claudia Frank

              @Scott-Sumner and @guy038

              Scott, I discovered something similar but thought it was related to using npp with wine.
              If I open the find dialog and then switch from english to english_customizable and back
              to english I loose the >> from “find next” button and the underscores (ampersands in text)
              for the “count” and “find all in all opened documents” buttons.
              I don’t see it as an issue as you normally set this once and done, but I see why it bothered you. ;-)
              I have a shortcut to “Run Previous Script” which I use quite often.
              What happens from time to time is that I execute another script while editing
              the “current” script and then when I use the shortcut I assume that the current script
              should be executed, which isn’t the case as another script was executed in between.
              First thought I have in such a case is always, damn - what did I miss why isn’t it working anymore? What did I broke?
              Checking the source again and again just to find out that haven’t executed the script. :-)
              You see - seems to be “normal” programmer behavior ;-)

              Guy, haven’t check it yet but I guess it should be easy to implement, yes.
              If Scott, or anyone else hasn’t proposed a solution, I will give it a try in 10-12 hours.
              Need to leave now.

              Cheers
              Claudia

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              • Scott SumnerS
                Scott Sumner @guy038
                last edited by

                @guy038 said:

                copies the current normal and unique selection, BOTH, in the Find what : and in the Replace with: boxes

                Hmmm. Yes, that is what it does but that was actually UNINTENTIONAL! I guess I didn’t notice because for years I have had an AutoIt script which does just that behavior. A lot of the time when doing replacements, I’m just doing a minor adjustment to the text I am finding, so it saves time to have both the Find-what and Replace-with fields initally set to the same data. I just make my minor tweak to the replace-with part and I am off to the races.

                In this thread’s script (ReplaceWithBoxFromSelection.py), however, I believe this happens due to the normal invocation of the Replace command (with notepad.menuCommand(MENUCOMMAND.SEARCH_REPLACE))–when a selection is active, Notepad++ on its own puts the selected text in the Find-what box. Perhaps that is less than desirable here in this script. :(

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                • Scott SumnerS
                  Scott Sumner @guy038
                  last edited by

                  @guy038 said:

                  This topic makes me think about an other possibility

                  I like your idea and it should be easy, but I will defer to Claudia as I am extremely busy at the moment. :-D

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                  • guy038G
                    guy038
                    last edited by

                    Hi, @scott-sumner and @claudia-frank

                    Many thanks, in advance, for this future script ! This short post give me the opportunity to express, once again, all my gratitude towards you, Claudia and Scott, for your numerous scripts, on various topics, which helped us, significantly, so many times :-D

                    Cheers,

                    guy038

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                    • Claudia FrankC
                      Claudia Frank @guy038
                      last edited by

                      @guy038, @scott-sumner

                      Hi Guy,

                      sorry, family celebration was a bit longer than expected.
                      Just did the script and some basic tests and discovered that encoding
                      is an issue like Scott already mentioned.
                      Will try to find a way to make it work regardless which encoding is used.

                      Cheers
                      Claudia

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                      • guy038G
                        guy038
                        last edited by

                        Hi, @claudia-frank,

                        Don’t worry, Claudia and just enjoy these family’s moments ! Luckily, we, all, own more valuable things than Notepad++ and some Python scripts :-D

                        …I’m just thinking about actualities and the death’s celebration of Helmut Kohl. Thanks to him and some important European women and men, we all enjoy, in Europe, a peace period, of near 75 years ! and THIS, it’s a basic point !!

                        Best Regards,

                        guy038

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                        • Claudia FrankC
                          Claudia Frank
                          last edited by Claudia Frank

                          From my basic tests it looks like it should do the trick.
                          Tested utf-8, ansi, winows-1250, winows-1251 and winows-1252.
                          It works only with normal selection - not with column mode selection.

                          import ctypes
                          from ctypes.wintypes import BOOL, HWND, LPARAM
                          
                          WNDENUMPROC = ctypes.WINFUNCTYPE(BOOL, HWND, LPARAM)
                          
                          FindWindow = ctypes.windll.user32.FindWindowW
                          FindWindowEx = ctypes.windll.user32.FindWindowExW
                          SendMessage = ctypes.windll.user32.SendMessageW
                          EnumChildWindows = ctypes.windll.user32.EnumChildWindows
                          GetClassName = ctypes.windll.user32.GetClassNameW
                          GetWindowText = ctypes.windll.user32.GetWindowTextW
                          GetWindowTextLength = ctypes.windll.user32.GetWindowTextLengthW
                          SetWindowText = ctypes.windll.user32.SetWindowTextW
                          GetACP = ctypes.windll.kernel32.GetACP
                          create_unicode_buffer = ctypes.create_unicode_buffer
                          
                          replace_tab_caption  = u'Replace'
                          replacewith_caption = u'Rep&lace with :'
                          replacewith_is_next_ctrl = False
                          replacewith_handle = None
                          replacewith_text = None
                          findwhat_caption = u'&Find what :'
                          findwhat_is_next_ctrl = False
                          findwhat_handle = None
                          findwhat_text = None
                          
                          
                          def EnumCallback(hwnd, lparam):
                              global replacewith_is_next_ctrl
                              global findwhat_is_next_ctrl
                              global replacewith_handle
                              global findwhat_handle
                              curr_class = create_unicode_buffer(256)
                              GetClassName(hwnd, curr_class, 256)
                              length = GetWindowTextLength(hwnd)
                              buff = ctypes.create_unicode_buffer(length + 1)
                              GetWindowText(hwnd, buff, length + 1)
                              if curr_class.value.lower() == 'static':
                                  if buff.value == replacewith_caption:
                                      replacewith_is_next_ctrl = True
                                  elif buff.value == findwhat_caption:
                                      findwhat_is_next_ctrl = True
                              elif curr_class.value.lower() == 'edit':
                                  if findwhat_is_next_ctrl:
                                      findwhat_handle = hwnd
                                      findwhat_is_next_ctrl = False
                                  elif replacewith_is_next_ctrl:
                                      replacewith_handle = hwnd
                                      replacewith_is_next_ctrl = False
                                      return False  # stop enumeration
                              return True  # let enumeration continue
                          
                          def return_proper_string(selected_text):
                              if notepad.getEncoding() == BUFFERENCODING.ENC8BIT:
                                  _selected_text = unicode(selected_text, '{}'.format(GetACP()))
                              else:
                                  _selected_text = unicode(selected_text, 'utf-8')
                              return _selected_text
                          
                          def main():
                              msg = ''
                              if editor.getSelections() == 2:
                                  if editor.getSelectionMode() == 0 and not editor.getSelectionEmpty():
                                      _find_what = editor.getTextRange(editor.getSelectionNStart(0), editor.getSelectionNEnd(0))
                                      _replace_with = editor.getTextRange(editor.getSelectionNStart(1), editor.getSelectionNEnd(1))
                          
                                      if len(_find_what) > 2046:
                                          _find_what = _find_what[:2046]
                                          msg += 'Warning:  Selected text too long for find-what box; truncating to 2046 characters.  '
                                              
                                      if len(_replace_with) > 2046:
                                          _replace_with = _replace_with[:2046]
                                          msg += 'Warning:  Selected text too long for replace-with box; truncating to 2046 characters.  '
                                                                  
                                      notepad.menuCommand(MENUCOMMAND.SEARCH_REPLACE)
                                      find_dialog_hwnd = FindWindow(None, replace_tab_caption)
                                      
                                      if find_dialog_hwnd:
                                          EnumChildWindows(find_dialog_hwnd, WNDENUMPROC(EnumCallback), 0)
                                          if findwhat_handle and replacewith_handle:
                                              if SetWindowText(findwhat_handle, return_proper_string(_find_what)) == 0:
                                                  msg += 'Error:  Problem setting find-what text'
                                              if SetWindowText(replacewith_handle, return_proper_string(_replace_with)) == 0:
                                                  msg += 'Error:  Problem setting replace-with text'
                                          else:
                                              msg += 'Error:  Bad value for replacewith_handle'
                                      else:
                                          msg += 'Error:  Bad value for find_dialog_hwnd'
                                  else:
                                      msg += 'Error:  Either empty selection or unsupported selection mode detected'
                              else:
                                  msg += 'Warning:  Only two selections are possible. Received:{}'.format(editor.getSelections())
                              if len(msg) > 0: notepad.messageBox(msg)
                          
                          main()
                          

                          Cheers
                          Claudia

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                          • guy038G
                            guy038
                            last edited by guy038

                            Hello, @claudia-frank,

                            What to say else ? Just wonderful and awesome, indeed !!!

                            I already tested the case of rectangular selection(s) and the upper limit of 2046 characters => No problem, it acts as expected :-)


                            Now, as always, when building a program, there’s a small bug with the lower limit of 0 character !

                            I, successively, tried to make an empty search selection, then an empty replace selection and, finally, both search and replace selections empty.

                            Note : To obtain, physically, a zero-length selection, I just select one character with the mouse, then move back the mouse, with a possible hit on the CTRL key, to only get the caret

                            Results :

                            • If both selections are empty, the message Error: Either empty selection or unsupported selection mode detected occurs, as expected. Nice !

                            • If, ONLY, the search selection is empty, the Find/Replace opens normally. May be, in that case, Claudia, a message would be better !

                            • If, ONLY, the replace selection is empty, the Find/Replace opens normally, with the Find what: box filled and the Replace with: empty. That the expected behaviour, in order to delete all the search blocks of text found

                            I also noticed that if I Ctrl + click and select some text, ONLY, it is, logically, inserted in the Replace with box, leaving the Find what: box empty :-D

                            But, if I, simply, click, without the Ctrl key, and select some text, the message Warning: Only two selections are possible. Received:1 occurs. However, Claudia, I think it’s a valid case.

                            So, in the case of a normal selection 0, only, the Find/Replace dialog should pop up and contain :

                            • A Find what: box, filled with the selection contents

                            • A Replace with: box, wiped out of any [previous] character

                            Best Regards,

                            guy038

                            P.S. :

                            I found out something weird, but logic : If I build a one-line rectangular selection, this selection is correctly written in the Find what: box !!

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                            • Claudia FrankC
                              Claudia Frank @guy038
                              last edited by Claudia Frank

                              @guy038

                              Guy, here the updated one.
                              A “one-selection” action results in opening the standard replace dialog behavior.
                              A “two-selections” action, even with an empty one, results in modifying the fields.
                              I see it as a benefit that you are able to decide that only one of the fields should be filled
                              and the other should be empty in any case.

                              import ctypes
                              from ctypes.wintypes import BOOL, HWND, LPARAM
                              
                              WNDENUMPROC = ctypes.WINFUNCTYPE(BOOL, HWND, LPARAM)
                              
                              FindWindow = ctypes.windll.user32.FindWindowW
                              FindWindowEx = ctypes.windll.user32.FindWindowExW
                              SendMessage = ctypes.windll.user32.SendMessageW
                              EnumChildWindows = ctypes.windll.user32.EnumChildWindows
                              GetClassName = ctypes.windll.user32.GetClassNameW
                              GetWindowText = ctypes.windll.user32.GetWindowTextW
                              GetWindowTextLength = ctypes.windll.user32.GetWindowTextLengthW
                              SetWindowText = ctypes.windll.user32.SetWindowTextW
                              GetACP = ctypes.windll.kernel32.GetACP
                              create_unicode_buffer = ctypes.create_unicode_buffer
                              
                              replace_tab_caption  = u'Replace'
                              replacewith_caption = u'Rep&lace with :'
                              replacewith_is_next_ctrl = False
                              replacewith_handle = None
                              replacewith_text = None
                              findwhat_caption = u'&Find what :'
                              findwhat_is_next_ctrl = False
                              findwhat_handle = None
                              findwhat_text = None
                              
                              
                              def EnumCallback(hwnd, lparam):
                                  global replacewith_is_next_ctrl
                                  global findwhat_is_next_ctrl
                                  global replacewith_handle
                                  global findwhat_handle
                                  curr_class = create_unicode_buffer(256)
                                  GetClassName(hwnd, curr_class, 256)
                                  length = GetWindowTextLength(hwnd)
                                  buff = ctypes.create_unicode_buffer(length + 1)
                                  GetWindowText(hwnd, buff, length + 1)
                                  if curr_class.value.lower() == 'static':
                                      if buff.value == replacewith_caption:
                                          replacewith_is_next_ctrl = True
                                      elif buff.value == findwhat_caption:
                                          findwhat_is_next_ctrl = True
                                  elif curr_class.value.lower() == 'edit':
                                      if findwhat_is_next_ctrl:
                                          findwhat_handle = hwnd
                                          findwhat_is_next_ctrl = False
                                      elif replacewith_is_next_ctrl:
                                          replacewith_handle = hwnd
                                          replacewith_is_next_ctrl = False
                                          return False  # stop enumeration
                                  return True  # let enumeration continue
                              
                              def return_proper_string(selected_text):
                                  if notepad.getEncoding() == BUFFERENCODING.ENC8BIT:
                                      _selected_text = unicode(selected_text, '{}'.format(GetACP()))
                                  else:
                                      _selected_text = unicode(selected_text, 'utf-8')
                                  return _selected_text
                              
                              def main():
                                  msg = ''
                                  if editor.getSelections() == 1:
                                      notepad.menuCommand(MENUCOMMAND.SEARCH_REPLACE)
                                  elif editor.getSelections() == 2:
                                      if editor.getSelectionMode() == 0 and not editor.getSelectionEmpty():
                                          _find_what = editor.getTextRange(editor.getSelectionNStart(0), editor.getSelectionNEnd(0))
                                          _replace_with = editor.getTextRange(editor.getSelectionNStart(1), editor.getSelectionNEnd(1))
                              
                                          if len(_find_what) > 2046:
                                              _find_what = _find_what[:2046]
                                              msg += 'Warning:  Selected text too long for find-what box; truncating to 2046 characters.  '
                                                  
                                          if len(_replace_with) > 2046:
                                              _replace_with = _replace_with[:2046]
                                              msg += 'Warning:  Selected text too long for replace-with box; truncating to 2046 characters.  '
                                                                      
                                          notepad.menuCommand(MENUCOMMAND.SEARCH_REPLACE)
                                          find_dialog_hwnd = FindWindow(None, replace_tab_caption)
                                          
                                          if find_dialog_hwnd:
                                              EnumChildWindows(find_dialog_hwnd, WNDENUMPROC(EnumCallback), 0)
                                              if findwhat_handle and replacewith_handle:
                                                  if SetWindowText(findwhat_handle, return_proper_string(_find_what)) == 0:
                                                      msg += 'Error:  Problem setting find-what text'
                                                  if SetWindowText(replacewith_handle, return_proper_string(_replace_with)) == 0:
                                                      msg += 'Error:  Problem setting replace-with text'
                                              else:
                                                  msg += 'Error:  Bad value for replacewith_handle'
                                          else:
                                              msg += 'Error:  Bad value for find_dialog_hwnd'
                                      else:
                                          msg += 'Error:  Either empty selection or unsupported selection mode detected'
                                  else:
                                      msg += 'Warning:  Only one or two selections are possible. Received:{}'.format(editor.getSelections())
                                  if len(msg) > 0: notepad.messageBox(msg)
                              
                              main()
                              

                              Cheers
                              Claudia

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                              • guy038G
                                guy038
                                last edited by guy038

                                Hello, @claudia-frank, @Scott-sumner, @pouemes44, @go2to, @jorge-campos, @herofiles, @azjio-azjio, @alan-kilborn and All

                                Thanks to @claudia-frank, this present topic and the discussions, below, about multi-lines search AND multi-lines Replacement :

                                https://notepad-plus-plus.org/community/topic/13823/replace-function/1

                                https://notepad-plus-plus.org/community/topic/13684/feature-request-textarea-search-replace/1

                                have, now, an ELEGANT solution, with her Python’s script, just above !

                                You just need to be able to do multiple selections ( Option Settings > Preferences… > Editing > Multi-Editing Settings > Enable CHECKED )


                                BTW, the upper limit of 2046 characters, in the Find what: box of the Find/Replace dialog, only, could be by-passed, easily :-). Indeed, just use the Regular expression search mode and use the generic regex (?s)Left-boundary.+?Right-boundary !

                                For instance, you can choose a particular character, which does not exist,yet, in your file(s) to be modified, and build the regex :

                                (?s)(#####\R).+?\1

                                This regex contains any non-null amount of characters between TWO same complete lines #####, with their line-breaks

                                So :

                                • Do a normal selection of this regex (?s)(#####\R).+?\1, using the mouse

                                • Then, with a Ctrl + Left Click action, simply, select your Replace block, multi-lines or not

                                • Run the Claudia’s script above

                                => Immediately, the Find/Replace dialog pops-up and :

                                • The Find what: box is filled with the regex (?s)(#####\R).+?\1

                                • The Replace with: box is filled with the block of text, which must replace the searched text

                                Best Regards,

                                guy038

                                P.S. :

                                @claudia-frank, I understand your point of view. Your script is quite flexible :-D. For instance, I was able to :

                                • First, do a Ctrl + Clic selection of a multi-lines block of text

                                • Run your script => Find what: box empty and Replace with: box filled with that multi-lines block

                                • Select an second file, containing the text (?s)(#####\R).+?\1

                                • Do a normal selection of that regex

                                • Run again, your script => The find.Replace dialog, presently in the background, is, then, updated with this regex, filled in the Find what: box

                                • Select a third file, containing the ##### boundaries lines

                                • Perform the S/R on the contents of this third file

                                Et voilà !!

                                Many thanks, again, for this very, very, valuable script, indeed !!!

                                Hum… Already 3 h 25 !! I’d better go to bed : working tomorrow !

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                                • AZJIO AZJIOA
                                  AZJIO AZJIO
                                  last edited by

                                  It would be nice if the author would make an additional window when the button is clicked
                                  [http://radikal.ru/big/m0wcdchejv3ve](link url)

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                                  • AZJIO AZJIOA
                                    AZJIO AZJIO
                                    last edited by

                                    The external program is working. I make a plugin and no longer works (EnumChildWindows).

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                                    • Eko palypseE
                                      Eko palypse
                                      last edited by

                                      Sorry, but what are you try to tell us?
                                      Which external program and which meaning has EnumChildWindows API in this context?

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                                      • AZJIO AZJIOA
                                        AZJIO AZJIO
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                                        I wrote a program for the test of regular expressions. It serves as a database. When you click a button, it fills in the search and replace fields.
                                        I decided to make a plugin that will do the same. But the same program (exe and dll) work differently. EXE fills the fields, but the DLL can not fill.
                                        I tried using EnumChildWindows to find the elements of the window, as is done in the examples above. But as a result, he found only 3 elements.
                                        0 hwnd = 725602 Class = Button Title = Caption
                                        1 hwnd = 2233572 Class = Static Title =
                                        2 hwnd = 1707882 Class = SysTabControl32 Title = Tab1

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                                        • Eko palypseE
                                          Eko palypse @AZJIO AZJIO
                                          last edited by

                                          @AZJIO-AZJIO

                                          without seeing/understanding the actual code it is hard to say what might be the issue
                                          but, personally, I would not recommend using EnumChildWindows when trying to find a
                                          dialog control window handle, instead use GetDlgItem.

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                                          • AZJIO AZJIOA
                                            AZJIO AZJIO
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                                            ; PureBasic
                                            hwnd = FindWindowEx_(NppData_nppHandle, 0, “#32770”, 0) ; hwnd = yes
                                            If Not IsWindowVisible_(hwnd)
                                            SendMessage_(NppData_nppHandle, #NPPM_MENUCOMMAND, 0, #IDM_SEARCH_REPLACE) ; Показать диалог поиска используя команду меню
                                            EndIf
                                            hwndEdit_1 = GetDlgItem_(hwnd, 1601) ; hwndEdit_1 = 0
                                            hwndEdit_2 = GetDlgItem_(hwnd, 1602) ; hwndEdit_2 = 0
                                            SendMessage_(hwndEdit_1,#WM_SETTEXT,0,GetGadgetItemText(#Combo_2 , n-1, 0))
                                            SendMessage_(hwndEdit_2,#WM_SETTEXT,0,GetGadgetItemText(#Combo_2 , n-1, 1))

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