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    • dailD
      dail @Ekopalypse
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      @ekopalypse said in Plugin Feature needed:

      that would require some maths to calculate the actual position with the clicked position

      The math part isn’t not too bad actually. Just translate a line number into a Y position. For example:

      https://github.com/dail8859/NotepadNext/blob/3268c8e76f99af6a983ac2f202c712529248ec34/src/NotepadNext/decorators/HighlightedScrollBar.cpp#L120-L129

      I don’t know how to do this with Win32 scrollbars but in theory should be possible.

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      • EkopalypseE
        Ekopalypse @dail
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        @dail

        cool thx, makes it easier to play with :-) I haven’t done anything with scrollbars yet either, to be honest I usually disable them :-)

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        • EkopalypseE
          Ekopalypse @Alan Kilborn
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          @alan-kilborn said in Plugin Feature needed:

          VS IDE

          Well … You know my relationship with VS IDE … don’t you :-D

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          • Alan KilbornA
            Alan Kilborn
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            This feature would be kind of cool, but wouldn’t it potentially cause performance problems because on a Find Next it would have to find all occurrences in a possibly huge file?

            The same possibility presents itself for a “Found X of Y” feature, as mentioned HERE.

            It seems like with the recent addition of better huge file support, some of Notepad++'s features need to be restricted (i.e., turned off) if the user is currently in such a file.

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            • EkopalypseE
              Ekopalypse @Alan Kilborn
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              It would if it was running on the main thread, but I suppose it could also run in the background on another thread or asynchronously.

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              • Alan KilbornA
                Alan Kilborn @Ekopalypse
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                @ekopalypse said in Plugin Feature needed:

                if it was running on the main thread

                I thought Notepad++ was single-threaded, mainly because, until quite recently, Scintilla was not multi-thread capable? (I could be wrong about some/all of this). Of course, things can be changed (beauty of s/w).

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                • EkopalypseE
                  Ekopalypse @Alan Kilborn
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                  @alan-kilborn

                  yes, but as long as you don’t change anything from the Scinitilla/Notepad++ point of view, you can use another thread to make it do some work.

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                  • dailD
                    dail @Alan Kilborn
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                    @alan-kilborn said in Plugin Feature needed:

                    until quite recently, Scintilla was not multi-thread capable

                    Only multi-threaded in regards to computing line lengths for rendering the document. It is not meant to be accessed by multiple threads simultaneously.

                    @ekopalypse said in Plugin Feature needed:

                    don’t change anything from the Scinitilla/Notepad++ point of view

                    Even searching though a document with a background thread and then the main thread editing the document could lead to very bad scenarios. This is even more likely if the document is large and the search term occurs infrequently.

                    PythonScript has proven multi-threaded access is not generally a good idea when it comes to Scintilla.

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                    • EkopalypseE
                      Ekopalypse @dail
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                      @dail

                      In general I agree, but in this particular case, which is all about search, I can’t see a race condition.
                      But keep in mind, that I am a overconfident hobby programmer who may not see the big picture :-).

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                        Janis Ogoli
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