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    • EkopalypseE
      Ekopalypse @Alan Kilborn
      last edited by

      @Alan-Kilborn

      I don’t seem to understand your use case.

      If I want to know if a user either pressed ESC or clicked close_X to simply exit the dialog without anything being triggered by the dialog, then I would start the dialog with a variable has_been_cancelled=True and override it with the click event of the “normal” exit_dialog_button.

      If that’s not what you’re looking for, maybe you can specify a simple scenario of what should be handled?

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      • Alan KilbornA
        Alan Kilborn @Ekopalypse
        last edited by

        @Ekopalypse

        I meant an optional user (the programmer-user) function that gets called when the dialog is closing, by whatever means. Then there’s a chance to do things at that point, much like, but the opposite of initialize(). Maybe I will think about working on that kind of thing, along with enabling/disabling of controls.

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        • Alan KilbornA
          Alan Kilborn
          last edited by Alan Kilborn

          My very first script using this wrapper is HERE !!

          I think it turned out pretty well and puts this wrapper through its paces. :-)

          About the only annoying thing is that the dialog is modal, i.e., one can’t switch between it and the Notepad++ editor window. This is annoying because one can do this with Notepad++'s Find window, and thus one gets used to this behavior.

          Maybe another suggested extension is that if the dialog (is made modeless) and loses input focus, the script ends and the dialog disappears. Sure, the user would have to restart the script (via assigned keycombo) after working in the editor window, but this isn’t too bad. The restarted script would pick up right where the closed one was (with all settings intact).

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          • PeterJonesP
            PeterJones @Alan Kilborn
            last edited by PeterJones

            @Alan-Kilborn said,

            My very first script using this wrapper is HERE !!

            And in chat, he asked me to give it a test drive.

            From the user perspective, I was able to follow the instructions on @Ekopalypse’s GitHub page to get the WinDialog directory installed in my instance, and @Alan-Kilborn’s instructions to run his wrapper. So “yay” for sufficient “installation” instructions on both. :-)

            About the only annoying thing is that the dialog is modal, i.e., one can’t switch between it and the Notepad++ editor window. This is annoying because one can do this with Notepad++'s Find window, and thus one gets used to this behavior.

            Indeed. Even after having read this paragraph, and knowing that it was modal, I still tried to change my selection in the editor without closing the dialog. So yes, having a modeless option for dialogs would definitely help with the user interface.

            Maybe another suggested extension is that if the dialog (is made modeless) and loses input focus, the script ends and the dialog disappears. Sure, the user would have to restart the script (via assigned keycombo) after working in the editor window, but this isn’t too bad. The restarted script would pick up right where the closed one was (with all settings intact).

            Ah, I assume this was the use-case for you wanting to capture the ESC / X events <update>-- whoops, left that sentence hanging, without explaining that I meant that I thought you wanted it to be able to save settings, without having an OK button. I might recommend seeing if you can get on-changed events for the individual settings controls, and have them save their settings, whether or not OK (or, in your case, Count) is eventually pressed</update>

            (And sorry, Alan, I know you were encouraging me to comment on the LittleDialogWrapper aspects as well – presumably from a developer perspective – to see if I could put it through more paces. But until I switch over to PS3 whenever it’s out of alpha, I’m not likely to incorporate LittleDialogWrapper into any of my scripts, because my PS installation is going to stay at whichever can be easily found in Plugins Admin, so that when I’m trying to help users with PS solutions, they won’t have an extra step of installing the alpha version of the plugin manually, or so I don’t have to go switch to a different instance of Notepad++ compared to my normal workflow. So all I’ve got for now is what I said in April, and my brief user-perspective comments in this post.)

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

              @PeterJones

              I assume this was the use-case for you wanting to capture the ESC / X events

              My points about “modeless” and “easier saving of settings” were totally separate.

              I wasn’t really saying that the dialog should truly be “modeless”, because if it were, users would attempt to run other scripts after refocusing the editing window (leaving the dialog open), and PythonScript, presumably for good reasons, disallows running a second script while a first is running.

              So my thinking was the dialog script could end when focus is lost, to be restored when next invoked. (Ah, okay, I see the relationship of “saving the settings” – but truly, this was an earlier, separate point).


              I might recommend seeing if you can get on-changed events for the individual settings controls, and have them save their settings

              Sure. Again, my earlier point was that this is “drudge work”. I have to have a “click” event on every control, even one that normally doesn’t need one, just for saving its state?? How about just a single function that gets called, whenever the dialog is about to close, by any means, that allows me to do “cleanup”, be it saving settings or something else?


              But until I switch over to PS3 …

              I decided to make the switch recently, although I still have to sort out some things that don’t work in scripts I had totally working under PS2.

              In general, I think it is time to move forward on this. PS3 may never come out of “alpha”, because what keeps it there (lack of old encoding support) doesn’t seem to get worked on.

              It seems reasonable that the PS developers make v. 3.x the one that Plugins Admin installs, but keep 2.x around for those that use scripting with dated encodings. Or heck, even make BOTH PS3 and PS2 installable via Plugins Admin.

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              • Alan KilbornA
                Alan Kilborn
                last edited by Alan Kilborn

                Preview of the PR for enable/disable of controls:

                In __control_template.py, at the bottom, add two member functions to the Control class:

                def enable(self, e : bool) -> bool: return True if WinDLL('user32').EnableWindow(self.hwnd, e) else False
                
                def isEnabled(self) -> bool: return True if WinDLL('user32').IsWindowEnabled(self.hwnd) else False
                

                And of course, near the top of the file:

                from ctypes import WinDLL
                
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                • SN-CHS
                  SN-CH
                  last edited by

                  @Ekopalypse, @Alan-Kilborn

                  Good afternoon,

                  I would appreciate if you could give me a word of advice.

                  I wonder if solution of this thread can help me to solve the following task: I need to pass integer argument to the Python script I run in N++ with PythonScript. Does it make sense to use this wrapper or is it an overkill because there is an easier way to do this?

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                  • Alan KilbornA
                    Alan Kilborn @SN-CH
                    last edited by Alan Kilborn

                    @SN-CH

                    I need to pass integer argument to the Python script I run… Does it make sense to use this wrapper or is it … overkill because there is an easier way…?

                    It sounds like it would be overkill, but only you can judge that.

                    About the simplest way to achieve what you are asking for is:

                    z = notepad.prompt('prompt text:', 'title bar of window', '')
                    if z is not None:
                        z = int(z)
                        print(z)
                    

                    which will give you a (no frills) window to enter your integer into:

                    9143568b-5e65-4ebf-aac6-2d5e3a9007ac-image.png

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                    • SN-CHS
                      SN-CH
                      last edited by

                      @Alan-Kilborn said in Little Dialog-wrapper for PythonScript:

                      z = notepad.prompt(‘prompt text:’, ‘title bar of window’, ‘’)

                      Works perfectly. Much appreciated.

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                      • PeterJonesP
                        PeterJones @Ekopalypse
                        last edited by

                        @Ekopalypse ,

                        After reading this post, I wanted to try out @Michael-Vincent’s translation script.

                        So I went to my portable that has PythonScript 3.0.17 installed, and tried to install based on the README instructions and tried to run the first example there. I get

                        Python 3.12.1 (tags/v3.12.1:2305ca5, Dec  7 2023, 22:03:25) [MSC v.1937 64 bit (AMD64)]
                        Initialisation took 406ms
                        Ready.
                        Traceback (most recent call last):
                          File "C:\usr\local\apps\npp\npp862.ps3\plugins\Config\PythonScript\scripts\windlg_ex1.py", line 1, in <module>
                            from WinDialog import Dialog, Button, create_dialog_from_rc
                        ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'WinDialog'
                        

                        In following the instructions, I put the WinDialog folder in the user directory ...plugins\Config\PythonScript\lib, as instructed. I can verify it’s there:

                        > cd plugins
                        > dir
                         Directory of C:\usr\local\apps\npp\npp862.ps3\plugins
                        
                        02/08/2024  01:28 PM    <DIR>          .
                        02/08/2024  01:28 PM    <DIR>          ..
                        02/08/2024  01:29 PM    <DIR>          ColumnTools
                        03/29/2024  09:36 AM    <DIR>          Config
                        01/14/2024  03:33 AM    <DIR>          doc
                        02/08/2024  01:09 PM    <DIR>          mimeTools
                        02/08/2024  01:09 PM    <DIR>          NppConverter
                        02/08/2024  01:09 PM    <DIR>          NppExport
                        02/08/2024  01:12 PM    <DIR>          PythonScript
                        
                        > dir Config
                         Directory of C:\usr\local\apps\npp\npp862.ps3\plugins\Config
                        
                        03/29/2024  09:36 AM    <DIR>          .
                        03/29/2024  09:36 AM    <DIR>          ..
                        03/29/2024  10:27 AM               179 ColumnTools.ini
                        02/08/2024  01:12 PM               646 converter.ini
                        02/08/2024  01:07 PM           208,728 nppPluginList.dll
                        03/29/2024  10:23 AM    <DIR>          PythonScript
                        
                        > dir Config\PythonScript
                         Directory of C:\usr\local\apps\npp\npp862.ps3\plugins\Config\PythonScript
                        
                        03/29/2024  10:23 AM    <DIR>          .
                        03/29/2024  10:23 AM    <DIR>          ..
                        03/29/2024  10:08 AM    <DIR>          lib
                        03/29/2024  10:25 AM    <DIR>          scripts
                        
                        > dir Config\PythonScript\lib\WinDialog
                         Directory of C:\usr\local\apps\npp\npp862.ps3\plugins\Config\PythonScript\lib\WinDialog
                        
                        03/29/2024  10:08 AM    <DIR>          .
                        03/29/2024  10:08 AM    <DIR>          ..
                        03/29/2024  10:08 AM    <DIR>          controls
                        03/29/2024  10:08 AM             2,748 readme.md
                        03/29/2024  10:08 AM    <DIR>          resource_parser
                        03/29/2024  10:08 AM         2,145,865 test_dynamic_dialog2.gif
                        03/29/2024  10:08 AM    <DIR>          win_helper
                        03/29/2024  10:08 AM            22,893 __init__.py
                        03/29/2024  10:08 AM    <DIR>          __tests__
                        

                        If I move WinDialog from the user directory to the machine directory (C:\usr\local\apps\npp\npp862.ps3\plugins\PythonScript\lib), then the script can see WinDialog and it loads and runs fine.

                        Is there some magic that needs to go in the startup.py to make PS3 see the user-lib directory for a portable installation?

                        Debug Info

                        Notepad++ v8.6.2   (64-bit)
                        Build time : Jan 14 2024 - 02:16:00
                        Path : C:\usr\local\apps\npp\npp862.ps3\notepad++.exe
                        Command Line : 
                        Admin mode : OFF
                        Local Conf mode : ON
                        Cloud Config : OFF
                        OS Name : Windows 10 Enterprise (64-bit)
                        OS Version : 22H2
                        OS Build : 19045.4170
                        Current ANSI codepage : 1252
                        Plugins : 
                            ColumnTools (1.4.5.1)
                            mimeTools (3)
                            NppConverter (4.5)
                            NppExport (0.4)
                            PythonScript (3.0.17)
                        
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                        • Michael VincentM
                          Michael Vincent @PeterJones
                          last edited by

                          @PeterJones said in Little Dialog-wrapper for PythonScript:

                          PythonScript 3.0.17

                          That’s “most likely” the problem. See here:

                          https://github.com/bruderstein/PythonScript/issues/322

                          I have stayed on 3.0.16 because of this and until this gets fixed.

                          Cheers.

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                          • PeterJonesP
                            PeterJones @Michael Vincent
                            last edited by PeterJones

                            @Michael-Vincent said in Little Dialog-wrapper for PythonScript:

                            I have stayed on 3.0.16 because of this and until this gets fixed.

                            Okay, switching to 8.6.4 portable with 3.0.16, I can get it to work using the user-lib instead of machine-lib. Thanks.

                            update: moved remainder of this post to the other Topic, since it’s translate.py specific, and this Dialog-wrapper Topic is already pretty full…

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                            • mpheathM
                              mpheath @Michael Vincent
                              last edited by

                              @Michael-Vincent You can add paths to sys.path if want to use PythonScript version 3.0.17.0.

                              This is what I have been using in startup.py .

                              # Fix for sys.path bug in 3.0.17
                              if notepad.getPluginVersion() in ('3.0.17.0',):
                                  sys.path.append(notepad.getPluginConfigDir() + r'\PythonScript\lib')
                              

                              It is a workaround until a fixed version is released.

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                              • Michael VincentM
                                Michael Vincent @mpheath
                                last edited by Michael Vincent

                                @mpheath said in Little Dialog-wrapper for PythonScript:

                                It is a workaround until a fixed version is released.

                                Afraid it’s not that easy for me. I’ve added all my missing directories to make it “on par” with the previous version, but I still get a ImportError that I do not get in the previous version:

                                ImportError: DLL load failed while importing win32gui: The specified module could not be found.
                                

                                Rest assured, the module is installed correctly. I can import it from my system Python and from PythonScript 3.0.17 commit right before the commit that breaks the path that I note in my issue. I’ve tried adding the specific directories to both sys.path and os.environ["PATH"] as described in https://github.com/mhammond/pywin32/issues/1730 and other Google results.

                                Cheers.

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                                • Michael VincentM
                                  Michael Vincent @Michael Vincent
                                  last edited by

                                  @Michael-Vincent said in Little Dialog-wrapper for PythonScript:

                                  Afraid it’s not that easy for me.

                                  @mpheath points out it is indeed “that easy” if you know what you are doing and thank you @mpheath for showing me what to do:
                                  https://github.com/bruderstein/PythonScript/issues/322#issuecomment-2041020162

                                  And my specific fix:
                                  https://github.com/bruderstein/PythonScript/issues/322#issuecomment-2045932479

                                  Cheers.

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                                  • Michael VincentM
                                    Michael Vincent @Michael Vincent
                                    last edited by

                                    @Michael-Vincent said in Little Dialog-wrapper for PythonScript:

                                    And my specific fix:

                                    Not needed anymore - 3.0.18 is released which fixes this bug.

                                    Cheers.

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                                    • Michael VincentM
                                      Michael Vincent @PeterJones
                                      last edited by

                                      @PeterJones said in Little Dialog-wrapper for PythonScript:

                                      Is there some magic that needs to go in the startup.py to make PS3 see the user-lib directory for a portable installation?

                                      This is now fixed in the 3.0.18 release.

                                      Cheers.

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                                      • Bruno BonaspettiB
                                        Bruno Bonaspetti
                                        last edited by

                                        Hello, could someone show me how to download and install this translation plugin on notepad++, as I have a lot of things to translate and word translation doesn’t work as it should.

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                                        • PeterJonesP
                                          PeterJones @Bruno Bonaspetti
                                          last edited by PeterJones

                                          @Bruno-Bonaspetti ,

                                          Have a little patience. You already asked that question yesterday here. This is not paid support that is guaranteed to get a reply in 5 minutes or your money back; this is a Community of fellow users of Notepad++, and as such, any who read here regularly and answer questions do so solely on their free time, and they might not always have time to answer a specific question – especially one that might take more knowledge of a specific sub-tool of Notepad++.

                                          Furthermore, this topic, “Little Dialog-wrapper for PythonScript” is focused on the Dialog Wrapper library for the PythonScript plugin; it briefly mentioned a script that was using that wrapper to help with the user interface, but the translation is not the focus of this discussion.

                                          Your original question was in the right place. This question was not. I will try to give a brief answer in the other topic.

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