NPP C# plugin - How to perform basic operations on a text file

[Alessandro]

Hi everybody,

First of all let me thank you in advance for the time your’re going to spend reading this post.
With you help I learned a lot in NPP C# plugin even if I can’t devote to this project the time I’d like so that progress is slow.

At the moment I need to perform simple operation on a text file such as find a word, move cursor left/right/up/down selecting words.

Every help will be appreciated.
Alessandro

[Claudia Frank]

Hi @Alessandro

when interacting with scintilla control the Scintilla documentation is a good starting point.

The concept is 99% like this, you send a message (the SCI_…) and either you get an immediate
return or/and you will be notified by the so called notifications.

The remainig 1% is it doesn’t work as expected. ;-)

When interacting with gui aka notepad++ then you need to get an understanding
how windows applications work in general. The main topic here is windows messages.

Cheers
Claudia