Support for Plugins Admin & NppPluginList

jackpoz

It would be nice to have in Plugin Admin the same list of plugins previously available through Plugin Manager, for example TextFX and “Poor Man’s T-Sql Formatter” are missing. I had to revert to version 7.5.9 to be able to load these plugins.
It would be also nice to have the plugin list sorted by name.

Meta Chuh

@Eric-YWY

i think you misunderstood:
you should never select “Don’t use %APPDATA%” if you install to C:\Program Files or plugins and updater will not be shown

so your options are:

install to a custom folder you create
(example C:\Applications\Notepad++)
there you can activate "Don’t use %APPDATA%” in the installer
this type of installation allows every user to see the same plugins and setting

or

make a default install without selecting "Don’t use %APPDATA%”
this way every user has its own plugins folder inside %APPDATA%

Eric YWY

@Meta-Chuh

noted, it works now, thank you!

donho

FYI, the new plugins schema (simplified) has been modified:
https://notepad-plus-plus.org/community/topic/16645/new-plugins-home-where-notepad-will-load-from

Eric YWY

Found that the Notepad++ main program cannot be restarted after installing the update of plugin from Plugin Admin

dinkumoil

@Eric-YWY

Which plugin did you install?

It seems like the plugin has to be changed to adopt the new plugin hosting model of v7.6. Look for a folder with companion files and move this folder to <Npp-install-dir>\plugins.

Dave Bongfishtester

I’ve spent half a day now trying various versions of Notepad++ with PythonScript. The deadline for the files which my script was supposed to fix was yesterday afternoon.

Thank you for the wonderfully bug-free and well-explained update process :-(

Meta Chuh

@Dave-Bongfishtester

i apologise for your inconvenience.

many thanks for your patience and best regards.

ahmoy law

Hi all,
I want to update the plugin list to add my new plugin but received this error,

“remote: Permission to notepad-plus-plus/nppPluginList.git denied to ahmoylaw.
fatal: unable to access ‘https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/nppPluginList.git/’: Failure when receiving data from the peer”

To be frank, i’m not that familiar with GitHub. What is the correct procedure to update the plugin list?

Thanks

cmeriaux

@ahmoy-law

you have to fork the repository (tutorial https://help.github.com/en/github/getting-started-with-github/fork-a-repo )
add your plugin in your own forked repository, in the file src/pl.x86.json and src/pl.x68.json.
commit and push this modification to your own forked repository
submit this commit to the original repository aka doing a pull request (tutorial https://help.github.com/en/github/collaborating-with-issues-and-pull-requests/creating-a-pull-request-from-a-fork )

ahmoy law

Many thanks to @cmeriaux .

I think, I have managed to create a pull request to the master. Admin please evaluate whether my plugin is good enough to be inside the official Notepad++ plugins.

Justin Wagner

I just cloned the latest notepad-plus-plus source code from git and built it successfully in VS2022. I’m now trying to get the Plugins Admin option working in the Plugins menu.

I’ve cloned the nppPluginList code and built it, but I’m not sure what I’m now supposed to do with the output to get the menu item to appear in notepad++. I’ve taken the nppPluginList.dll and placed it under the bin64/plugins folder for the notepad-plus-plus project but that doesn’t seem to do anything.

PeterJones

@Justin-Wagner said in Support for Plugins Admin & NppPluginList:

bin64/plugins

The correct path is bin64/plugins/Config/nppPluginList.dll

(For other readers of this topic who haven’t been following all conversations in the forum: this is related to a separate topic by the same user)

Justin Wagner

@PeterJones That’s where I currently have it, but I suspect I’m missing something else. If I don’t have the Plugins Admin option in the Plugins menu, will placing nppPluginList.dll in this location force it to appear, or do I somehow need to build notepad-plus-plus differently to begin with?

It seems to me like nppPluginList.dll feeds into the Plugins Admin dialog once it’s already enabled, but my issue is that I have nothing to click on to open that in the first place.

Alan Kilborn

@Justin-Wagner said in Support for Plugins Admin & NppPluginList:

I just cloned the latest notepad-plus-plus source code from git and built it successfully in VS2022

don’t have the Plugins Admin option in the Plugins menu

You didn’t ask for the smart-ass answer, but here it is: Step thru the code (in the relevant section, of course) and you should be able to see why it isn’t appearing. :-)

Justin Wagner

@Alan-Kilborn haha ok I’ll start digging in. I guess what I was mainly wanting to confirm is that it’s supposed to be there in the first place after doing a git clone and .NET build.

Alan Kilborn

@Justin-Wagner

So you’re probably doing the default build of the DEBUG version of Notepad++?

If so, that’s looking for the .json version of the the plugins list in order to determine if it should show Plugins Admin; see HERE.

As I said, since you apparently have the power, you can set a breakpoint and look at code there and see how it is looking for what/where.

Justin Wagner

@Alan-Kilborn Many thanks for the tip. It looks like I was missing both the json file (I just had the dll in there) and the updater (updater/gup.exe). Looks like I need to clone and build the updater as well.
Cheers

ianwilliams1

After TextFX disappeared following NPP upgrade, I found this post, which noted there’s now a TextFX2 (which works for me!).

Wondering if someone might update the Plugins List to show the original is no longer compatible and add an entry for the TextFX2 and link to repo, etc. ?

Is that the responsibly of the plugin developer to add and what about the deprecation ?

I’d submit a PR, but have no idea what the appropriate notations would be.

ianwilliams1

Also, how does TextFX2 get onto the Plugins Admin list of plugins? Is there something @rainman74 needs to do?