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    Alan Kilborn @Derek Brown
    last edited by Apr 30, 2020, 5:26 PM

    @Derek-Brown said in How to get Vertical Edge Settings programmatically?:

    are the NP++ settings exposed to plugins in a useful way?

    I’m not sure about that but someone else will know.
    Even if they are exposed, I would think that this new multiple vertical edge stuff is too new to be supported yet in that way.

    May I ask what you’re really wanting to do?
    I use the single vertical edge in my setup, but I have Notepad++'s management of it completely turned off. I’m doing what I do via Pythonscript.
    I would think you could do something similar, but without knowing anything further I can’t say for sure.

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      Derek Brown
      last edited by Apr 30, 2020, 5:33 PM

      My CommentWrap plugin reads the vertical edge setting by default to decide at what column to wrap comments. This column can also be manually set, so it’s not a huge problem that it’s broken right now, but I would like to restore the functionality.

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        Alan Kilborn @Derek Brown
        last edited by Apr 30, 2020, 6:35 PM

        @Derek-Brown

        Ah, okay then.
        What I do won’t help that situation.

        It does seem like a Scintilla oversight to allow setting of multiple edges without having a readback mechanism. Perhaps you want to have a look at the Scintilla issues list, maybe open an issue if there isn’t one.

        But, sadly, I suppose I am the one that broke your plugin.
        I’m sorry.
        :-(

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          Ekopalypse @Alan Kilborn
          last edited by Apr 30, 2020, 7:08 PM

          Yes, there doesn’t seem to be a call which is able to get every column
          position set but the call itself seems to report the position from the first column.

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          Maybe @donho might consider implementing a new message
          NPPM_GETEDGECOLUMNS and returning an array of ints?

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            Derek Brown
            last edited by Derek Brown Apr 30, 2020, 7:21 PM Apr 30, 2020, 7:20 PM

            How is that call implemented? When I call in C++:

            SendMessage(scintillaHwnd, SCI_GETEDGECOLUMN, 0, 0)
            

            With edges set at 80 and 120 I get back 0.

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              Ekopalypse
              last edited by Ekopalypse Apr 30, 2020, 7:27 PM Apr 30, 2020, 7:26 PM

              hmm, strange - basically doing the same as you do

              sci.call = <SciFnDirect>SendMessageW(hwnd, SCI_GETDIRECTFUNCTION, 0, 0)
              
                  cpdef ssize_t getEdgeColumn(self):
                      ''' Retrieve the column number which text should be kept within. '''
                      return <ssize_t>self.call(<sptr_t>self.sci_pointer, SCI_GETEDGECOLUMN, 0, 0)
              

              EDIT: except that I’m using the direct function

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                Ekopalypse @Derek Brown
                last edited by Apr 30, 2020, 7:32 PM

                @Derek-Brown

                just tried it with SendMessage and I do get back 80

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                  Ekopalypse
                  last edited by Ekopalypse Apr 30, 2020, 7:35 PM Apr 30, 2020, 7:35 PM

                  @Derek-Brown
                  WAIT - there seems to be something wrong with MY code.
                  Because I set a different value (87) and I still do get back 80.

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                    Ekopalypse
                    last edited by Apr 30, 2020, 7:43 PM

                    No, nothing wrong with my code but I guess there is another level of potential confusion.
                    It reports back what is configured in Number of columns

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                      Ekopalypse
                      last edited by Apr 30, 2020, 7:53 PM

                      @Derek-Brown @Alan-Kilborn

                      ok - sorry for the noise. I didn’t use the latest 7.8.6 iteration.
                      I was still running a RC version. In the final version it does what @Derek-Brown said.

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