[plugin dev question] Blocking the default Npp auto-completion programmatically
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Hello community,
I’m currently writing a plugin that implements its own auto-completion mechanic and window.
I would like to not prevent the default Npp auto-completion window from being displayed. Obviously, i can’t ask my user to deactivate the auto-completion via the options because i want him to be able to use the default autocomp for others files.
I could call
SCI_AUTOCCANCEL
After each char input but that’s suboptimal… and the window is briefly displayed anyway…At the moment i got 2 (ugly) solutions :
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Call
SCI_AUTOCSTOPSwith"0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz_
-> this is effective, but for some reasons, it makes Npp slow down when editing a big file (> 40k lines) -
Start recording a macro programmatically, this effectively blocks the default autocomp. But for obvious reasons, this is not a good solution…
Can you think of anything else?
Otherwise, i will create an issue to ask for a new Notepad++ message that allows the deactivation of the auto-completion.
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There are user lists but I have no idea if that would be sufficient for what you need or it might interfere with the default auto-complete.
My other suggestion would be to try to find some other plugins that show their own auto-complete list and figure out how they do it. I can’t remember any off the top of my head but I know there are a few around that do it.
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I don’t see how the user lists can help me :)
I already searched for plugin that implement their own auto-completion, but unfortunatlely, none of them prevent the default autocomp from being displayed :
http://csscriptnpp.codeplex.com/ is the closest to what i’m developing, but you manually have to deactivate the default auto-completion.
