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    • Alan KilbornA
      Alan Kilborn @J. Brouwer
      last edited by PeterJones

      @J-Brouwer said in Linked text to open other files into Notepad++:

      though not quite helpful for my case at the moment, that is a pity.

      Well, perhaps the idea (in the other thread that pointed you here) was that you could take this and build upon it to in some way meet your need.

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      • J. BrouwerJ
        J. Brouwer @Alan Kilborn
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        @Alan-Kilborn

        I cannot code, unfortunately…

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        • Alan KilbornA
          Alan Kilborn @J. Brouwer
          last edited by Alan Kilborn

          @J-Brouwer

          Well, it certainly wouldn’t be that hard (for me) to augment the script to open “associated” files from the operating system, e.g. if the underlined text ends in .jpg, when alt+clicked it would open whatever program on your system defaults to opening them.

          Does everything else about the script meet your need? Meaning that if it was expressed as the following underlined text:

          edit:w:\junk\test%20but%20I%20have%20spaces.jpg

          and when you alt+clicked it, it opens in your jpg viewer/editor, that would be good?

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          • J. BrouwerJ
            J. Brouwer @Alan Kilborn
            last edited by

            @Alan-Kilborn

            That would be marvelous! Need to say here that my standard app for, amongst others, .jpg, .png and .gif files is picture viewer IrfanView 64-bit, or not?

            Thanks in advance.

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            • Alan KilbornA
              Alan Kilborn @J. Brouwer
              last edited by

              @J-Brouwer said in Linked text to open other files into Notepad++:

              Need to say here that my standard app for, amongst others, .jpg, .png and .gif files is picture viewer IrfanView 64-bit, or not?

              Is IrfanView what opens when you double-click any files of these types from Explorer? If yes, then No, you don’t need to say it.

              I’ll add the capability; check back in a day or two…

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              • Alan KilbornA
                Alan Kilborn
                last edited by Alan Kilborn

                So what follows is the UriIndicatorAltClick2.py script. This version handles opening the default viewer/editor for linked text that is not a known type to the script.

                The script as written makes .txt and .log files the known types, so those will be opened in Notepad++. To change this, simply change edit_with_npp_lowercase_extension_list in the code to add/subtract…even a non-coder can do this.

                Other types are unspecified, but an example would be .jpg files – these will be opened by whatever program is associated with them in the operating system.

                Examples:

                • edit:c:\test.txt <-- will be underlined and if Alt+clicked will open test.txt in N++
                • edit:d:\image.jpg <-- will be underline and if Alt+clicked will open image.jpg in the default program for the jpg file type

                As to spaces in the pathnames, as per the original version of the script, these will need to be replaced with %20 in order for the entire pathname to be recognized as a clickable link, example: edit:d:\my%20image.jpg.

                The script listing:

                # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
                
                # see https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/22274/linked-text-to-open-other-files-into-notepad
                
                from Npp import *
                import os
                import re
                import ctypes
                
                class UIAC2(object):
                
                    def __init__(self):
                        self.edit_with_npp_lowercase_extension_list = [ 'txt', 'log' ]
                        self.URL_INDIC = 8  # URL_INDIC is used in N++ source code
                        self.ALT_MODIFIER = 4
                        self.backslash = '\\' ; self.two_backslashes = self.backslash * 2
                        self.alt_held_at_click = False
                        self.installed = False
                        self.install()
                
                    def install(self):
                        if not self.installed:
                            # https://www.scintilla.org/ScintillaDoc.html#SCN_INDICATORCLICK
                            editor.callback(self.indicator_click_callback, [SCINTILLANOTIFICATION.INDICATORCLICK])
                            # https://www.scintilla.org/ScintillaDoc.html#SCN_INDICATORRELEASE
                            editor.callback(self.indicator_release_callback, [SCINTILLANOTIFICATION.INDICATORRELEASE])
                            self.installed = True
                
                    def uninstall(self):
                        if self.installed:
                            editor.clearCallbacks(self.indicator_click_callback)
                            editor.clearCallbacks(self.indicator_release_callback)
                            self.installed = False
                
                    def is_installed(self):
                        return self.installed
                
                    def mb(self, msg, flags=0, title=''):
                        return notepad.messageBox(msg, title, flags)
                
                    def extension_from_path(self, path):
                        l = path.rsplit('.', 1)
                        ext = l[1] if len(l) == 2 else ''
                        return ext
                
                    def shell_open(self, uri_text, args=None):
                        SW_SHOW = 5
                        return ctypes.windll.Shell32.ShellExecuteA(None, 'open', uri_text, args, None, SW_SHOW) > 32
                
                    def get_indicator_range(self, indic_number):
                        # similar to ScintillaEditView::getIndicatorRange() in N++ source
                        # https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/blob/8f38707d33d869a5b8f5014dbb18619b166486a0/PowerEditor/src/ScitillaComponent/ScintillaEditView.h#L562
                        curr_pos = editor.getCurrentPos()
                        indic_mask = editor.indicatorAllOnFor(curr_pos)
                        if (indic_mask & (1 << indic_number)) != 0:
                            start_pos = editor.indicatorStart(indic_number, curr_pos)
                            end_pos = editor.indicatorEnd(indic_number, curr_pos)
                            if curr_pos >= start_pos and curr_pos <= end_pos:
                                return (start_pos, end_pos)
                        return (0, 0)
                
                    def indicator_click_callback(self, args):
                        # example: INDICATORCLICK: {'position': 12294, 'idFrom': 0, 'modifiers': 4, 'code': 2023, 'hwndFrom': 1577146}
                        #print('UriIndicatorAltClick indicator click callback')
                        self.alt_held_at_click = (args['modifiers'] & self.ALT_MODIFIER) != 0
                
                    def indicator_release_callback(self, args):
                
                        # example: INDICATORRELEASE: {'position': 12294, 'idFrom': 0, 'modifiers': 0, 'code': 2024, 'hwndFrom': 1577146}
                
                        #print('UriIndicatorAltClick indicator release callback')
                
                        if not self.alt_held_at_click: return
                        self.alt_held_at_click = False
                
                        (start_pos, end_pos) = self.get_indicator_range(self.URL_INDIC)
                        if start_pos == end_pos:  return  # if click on indicator that is not URL_INDIC
                
                        uri_text = editor.getTextRange(start_pos, end_pos)
                
                        (uri_scheme, _, uri_path) = uri_text.partition(':')
                
                        uri_path = uri_path.replace('%20', ' ').replace('%24', '$').replace('/', self.backslash)
                
                        # check for optional syntax at end:   edit:....txt(L127,C12)
                        goto_line = goto_col = 0
                        m = re.search(r'\(L(-?\d+)(?:,C(\d+))?\)$', uri_path)
                        if m:
                            uri_path = uri_path[:-len(m.group())]
                            goto_line = int(m.group(1))
                            if m.group(2): goto_col = int(m.group(2))
                
                        if not os.path.isfile(uri_path):
                            # look for a relative path, relative to currently active document
                            try:
                                (valid_dir_of_active_doc, _) = notepad.getCurrentFilename().rsplit(os.sep, 1)
                            except ValueError:
                                # we started out in a "new 1" file, no path on that whatsoever
                                self.mb('Cannot find file:\r\n\r\n{}'.format(uri_path))
                                return
                            test_path_in_active_doc_dir = os.path.join(valid_dir_of_active_doc, uri_path)
                            if os.path.isfile(test_path_in_active_doc_dir):
                                uri_path = test_path_in_active_doc_dir
                            else:
                                (test_dir, test_filename) = test_path_in_active_doc_dir.rsplit(os.sep, 1)
                                if os.path.isdir(test_dir):
                                    expanded_test_dir = os.path.abspath(test_dir)
                                    if expanded_test_dir != test_dir:
                                        self.mb('Cannot find file:\r\n\r\n{}\r\n\r\nLooked in this dir:\r\n\r\n{}'.format(test_filename, expanded_test_dir))
                                        return
                                self.mb('Cannot find file:\r\n\r\n{}'.format(uri_path))
                                return
                
                        opened_in_npp = False
                        if self.extension_from_path(uri_path).lower() in self.edit_with_npp_lowercase_extension_list:
                            notepad.open(uri_path)
                            opened_in_npp = True
                        else:
                            self.shell_open(uri_path)
                
                        if opened_in_npp and goto_line != 0:
                            if goto_line == -1: goto_line = editor.getLineCount()
                            goto_line -= 1
                            if goto_col != 0:
                                goto_col_pos = editor.findColumn(goto_line, goto_col)
                                editor.gotoPos(goto_col_pos)
                            else:
                                editor.gotoLine(goto_line)
                
                if __name__ == '__main__':
                
                    if 'uiac2' not in globals():
                        uiac2 = UIAC2()  # will automatically "install" it
                    else:
                        # each running the script toggles install/uninstall:
                        uiac2.uninstall() if uiac2.is_installed() else uiac2.install()
                        print('uiac2 installed?:', uiac2.is_installed())
                
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                • J. BrouwerJ
                  J. Brouwer @Alan Kilborn
                  last edited by

                  @Alan-Kilborn

                  Wow, nice and working! Now we got a real workaround for this space character deficiency problem in NPP.

                  I, being a genuine nag, have found another issue, yet. There is a problem with opening files containing special - or even not that “special” - characters, like the following: edit:C:\Users\Jack\Desktop\probleem%20voor%20alldup\kopiëren.txt, where that “ë” is the culprit here. Is it because of “coding: utf-8”, in line 1 of your script, maybe?
                  UTF-8 is selected as the character set in my version of NPP, so that should be OK, I guess.

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                  • Alan KilbornA
                    Alan Kilborn @J. Brouwer
                    last edited by

                    @J-Brouwer said in Linked text to open other files into Notepad++:

                    kopiëren.txt, where that “ë” is the culprit here…

                    Ok, so there are 2 problems:

                    • I don’t use such characters when I name files (which means I don’t typically code for that situation – but I understand that others want to name files with ‘special’ characters)

                    • The non-beta PythonScript plugin uses Python2, which makes it a bit of a painful experience to write code that deals with the situation

                    That being said, I managed to mod the script a bit, and it seems to work when I test it with your filename in my file system – but I really have no idea how “fragile” it might be.

                    I’ll dub it the “2a” version of the script and here are the changes:

                    • change editor.getTextRange(start_pos, end_pos) to be unicode(editor.getTextRange(start_pos, end_pos), 'utf-8')

                    • change ShellExecuteA(None, 'open' to be ShellExecuteW(None, u'open'

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                    • J. BrouwerJ
                      J. Brouwer @Alan Kilborn
                      last edited by

                      @Alan-Kilborn

                      I have changed the two line fragments in v. 2, and have saved it as v. 2a.

                      But now, unfortunately, it does not work anymore, besides of underlining the text of the urn; after an Alt-LClick in that line, just nothing happens.

                      I have opened the Python console, and here is what it reports:

                      Python 2.7.18 (v2.7.18:8d21aa21f2, Apr 20 2020, 13:25:05) [MSC v.1500 64 bit (AMD64)]
                      Initialisation took 32ms
                      Ready.
                      Traceback (most recent call last):
                        File "C:\Program Files\Notepad++\plugins\PythonScript\scripts\Samples\UriIndicatorAltClick2a.py", line 116, in indicator_release_callback
                          notepad.open(uri_path)
                      Boost.Python.ArgumentError: Python argument types in
                          Notepad.open(Notepad, unicode)
                      did not match C++ signature:
                          open(class NppPythonScript::NotepadPlusWrapper {lvalue}, char const * __ptr64 filename)
                      Traceback (most recent call last):
                        File "C:\Program Files\Notepad++\plugins\PythonScript\scripts\Samples\UriIndicatorAltClick2a.py", line 116, in indicator_release_callback
                          notepad.open(uri_path)
                      Boost.Python.ArgumentError: Python argument types in
                          Notepad.open(Notepad, unicode)
                      did not match C++ signature:
                          open(class NppPythonScript::NotepadPlusWrapper {lvalue}, char const * __ptr64 filename)
                      
                      

                      I believe this is twice the same traceback.

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                      • Alan KilbornA
                        Alan Kilborn @J. Brouwer
                        last edited by

                        @J-Brouwer said in Linked text to open other files into Notepad++:

                        But now, unfortunately, it does not work anymore

                        Hmm, yea, apparently I didn’t retest that part (opening a link into Notepad++)…sorry.

                        I think this falls into the “fragile” realm I mentioned before. Hack something to mix unicode into Python2, something else breaks…

                        It probably gets a lot cleaner with Python3 and the beta version of the PythonScript plugin. As I haven’t really dipped into that realm yet, I don’t have an instant solution for the problem at hand.

                        But this may be a good opportunity for me to test the waters with the newer PythonScript. I’ve been writing Python3 code for years, just not with Notepad++.

                        I’ll post something more when I have something…check back in a bit…

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                        • Alan KilbornA
                          Alan Kilborn
                          last edited by Alan Kilborn

                          Ok, I had some free time earlier than expected…

                          I started with the beta 3.10.2 version of PythonScript.
                          Then I took the UriIndicatorAltClick2.py version of the script (above from Sept 12 9:58 posting) and made a single-character change to it:

                          • change ShellExecuteA to ShellExecuteW

                          (If we need to refer to it further, maybe this becomes the 2b version)

                          And with that everything seemed to work, for files with or without “special characters” in their names.

                          So, @J-Brouwer , my suggestion is that you give that a try.

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                          • J. BrouwerJ
                            J. Brouwer @Alan Kilborn
                            last edited by

                            @Alan-Kilborn said in Linked text to open other files into Notepad++:

                            I started with the beta 3.10.2 version of PythonScript.

                            Where could that version be found? I searched the internet for it, and all that I could find were versions below v. 2. The PythonScript plugin installed within my version of NPP is 2.

                            Anyway, I have tried to use the 2b version, but to no avail. According to the Python console traceback, the same error in line 116 occured.

                            Now I have loaded v. 2 again, so a sort of a downgrade that is. But that version is working in my situation, to a great extent.

                            All of this is becoming too complicated for me. Like I said before, I am not a coder. Moreover, English is not my native tongue.

                            Finally, I want to remark that in many languages diacritical characters (like ë, though we got Emily Brontë :-)) are (quite) more common than in English.
                            In my own language spelling “kopieren”, instead of “kopiëren” (Dutch, meaning “to copy”), would just be wrong.

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                            • Alan KilbornA
                              Alan Kilborn @J. Brouwer
                              last edited by

                              @J-Brouwer said in Linked text to open other files into Notepad++:

                              All of this is becoming too complicated for me.

                              All of what? What does this mean? You’re giving up on it?
                              You, who’s been asked to put exactly zero effort in along the way?
                              Ok, then, I won’t put any more effort in either…

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                              • PeterJonesP
                                PeterJones @J. Brouwer
                                last edited by PeterJones

                                @J-Brouwer said in Linked text to open other files into Notepad++:

                                Where could that version be found?

                                The same github repository where the non-beta version comes from. You can find out this repository by going to Notepad++'s Plugins > Plugins Admin, clicking on the Installed tab ‡, and clicking on PythonScript – it will show you the Homepage: .... You paste that into your browser, click on the Releases link on the right, and voila, you can see “v3.0.14 [Pre-Release]” right there at the top of the releases page.

                                (‡: it’s on the Installed tab for you, because you already have PythonScript v2 installed. If someone else found these instructions but they don’t yet have PythonScript installed at all, they will have to look on the Available tab instead.)

                                I searched the internet for it

                                You might want to spend some time refining your search, then. When I searched for “Notepad++ PythonScript v3”, the first link was the old sourceforge home for PythonScript (understandable as a first hit, but it’s not the current home); the second link was a 2019 post in this forum (which predated v3); but the third link was a post from this June which talks about how to install the v3 PythonScript – success in 3 links! That’s pretty good for the first combination of search terms I tried.

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                                • J. BrouwerJ
                                  J. Brouwer @Alan Kilborn
                                  last edited by

                                  @Alan-Kilborn

                                  ???

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                                  • J. BrouwerJ
                                    J. Brouwer @PeterJones
                                    last edited by

                                    @PeterJones said in Linked text to open other files into Notepad++:

                                    success in 3 links! That’s pretty good for the first combination of search terms I tried.

                                    Well, not in my case then. With about the same search words, that third hit was not given at all. As we know, everyone individually - person, machine, IP-address -, is put in “bubbles” by search engines. So, after having seen about 15 results, I gave up that effort.

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                                    • Alan KilbornA
                                      Alan Kilborn @PeterJones
                                      last edited by Alan Kilborn

                                      @PeterJones said in Linked text to open other files into Notepad++:

                                      success in 3 links!

                                      Same for me (3rd hit) – which in my case was the current github home for the plugin.
                                      My choice of search phrase was not influenced by Peter’s as I purposefully avoided looking at his before trying my own.
                                      Mine was: notepad++ python script plugin

                                      It IS unfortunate that the first hit we both obtained is for a really old version of PythonScript on sourceforge (ugh), but that page makes it fairly clear that the version there is 1.0.8.0, and since this thread was discussion version 3.0.12 (in my earlier post, I just used something 3-ish that I had on hand, I didn’t seek out the latest which appears to be 3.14), it should be obvious that the sourceforge one is not the one wanted here. BTW, any version of “3” should work for purposes of this thread.

                                      I suppose in the future we should probably do more spoonfeeding and post exact links, for those that have trouble searching the internet. More work for the people already doing the work, I guess. :-(

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                                        PeterJones @J. Brouwer
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                                        @J-Brouwer said in Linked text to open other files into Notepad++:

                                        Well, not in my case then. With about the same search words, that third hit was not given at all. As we know, everyone individually - person, machine, IP-address -, is put in “bubbles” by search engines. So, after having seen about 15 results, I gave up that effort.

                                        Okay, when google’s bubble fails you, then search the forum instead. When sorting results by date (so that more recent links to pythonscript will be found), “pythonscript v3” finds a link to the PythonScript v3.0.14 as the second match (after my post above – so it would have been the first match before you asked this question).

                                        But instead of arguing about search skills, have you been able to follow the instructions I gave on how to find the link inside Notepad++ itself? If so, have you been able to download PythonScript v3.0.14? Or have you just given up, and I’m wasting my time trying to help you learn?

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                                        • J. BrouwerJ
                                          J. Brouwer @PeterJones
                                          last edited by

                                          @PeterJones

                                          Sure, I have found it now. Thanks. But, my initial aim was to find this PythonScript v3.0.14, and, after having read its features, maybe download it. This is my general approach when seeing stable versions against other versions.

                                          And this time, I decided not to download this version. I only can hope that you do not think this way of acting is “forbidden” or ungrateful, after having got an, indeed, useful link from one of the forum members.

                                          I do not really see what would have caused this disapproval towards me; really, things became too complicated for me indeed. Seemingly, there is a broad gap between coders and non-coders.

                                          The course of events in this discussion is making me very shy.

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                                          • PeterJonesP
                                            PeterJones @J. Brouwer
                                            last edited by PeterJones

                                            @J-Brouwer said in Linked text to open other files into Notepad++:

                                            The course of events in this discussion is making me very shy.

                                            I’m sorry about that.

                                            I wrote a whole many-paragraphs-long post going into the reasons for reactions … but instead, I will just sum it up in the next brief paragraph:

                                            The more willingness you show to follow the suggestions and instructions given during a conversation in a forum like this, the better the answers you will get (in my decades on the internet, I have found this to be nearly universally true – not just in this forum). If you have difficulties, ask for help, explaining exactly what you tried or where you are having difficulty with the process. If you show a willingness to try what’s suggested and to learn, and ask polite questions for clarification without complaining, I think you will find that we will do our best to help you through problems with Notepad++.

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