[vi simulator] how to highlight a word

[Claudia Frank]

@dail - thank you for clarification.

Yes but indicators should only get removed when editor.indicatorClearRange() is called, and assuming the Python code is only ran 1 time, then editor.indicatorClearRange() should only ever be called once…even if it is running asynchronously.

From my test

it looks like that some found items were not colored instead of the previous are cleared as shown
by Scotts gif. To be honest, I didn’t really test if the uncolored once are reported as found - I will do so.

Cheers
Claudia

[Scott Sumner]

@Claudia-Frank

At one point I had some code in there to count the "if"s so that I could make sure they were all found by the search function…and I always saw a consistent and correct count.

[Claudia Frank]

@Scott-Sumner

I can confirm, I run it 100 times and it always reported it correctly but there is another strange thing
as soon as I put a print statement (which needs sys.stdout = console redirection) into the while loop I always get all "if"s colored. I even can now put the setIndicatorCurrent out of the loop.

else:
    endPos = editor.getTextLength()
    temp = editor.findText(FINDOPTION.WHOLEWORD | FINDOPTION.MATCHCASE, 0, endPos, 'if')
    editor.setIndicatorCurrent(indicator)
    console.clear()
    while temp != None:
        print temp
        (s, e) = temp
        editor.indicatorFillRange(s, e - s)
        temp = editor.findText(FINDOPTION.WHOLEWORD | FINDOPTION.MATCHCASE, e, endPos, 'if')  
print 'Done'

First I thought about a timing issue but replacing the print statement with another time consuming action brings back the issue so … ???

Cheers
Claudia

[Scott Sumner]

@Claudia-Frank

Noticed that, too…sorry I didn’t mention it. :-)

[Claudia Frank]

@Scott-Sumner, @dail

I guess I found the reason. It’s basically what we already assumed. Npp is stepping in.
During debugging I noticed, that sometime indicator was reset to value 29 (in such a case it was always 29),
which, afaik, is used by smart highlighting.
Albeit following code worked by 100 consecutive runs always, there is a potential risk that it fails again.

endPos = editor.getTextLength()
temp = editor.findText(FINDOPTION.WHOLEWORD | FINDOPTION.MATCHCASE, 0, endPos, 'if')
editor.setIndicatorCurrent(indicator)
while temp != None:
    (s, e) = temp
    editor.indicatorFillRange(s, e - s)
    if editor.getIndicatorCurrent() != indicator:
        # print 'getIndicatorCurrent:{}'.format(editor.getIndicatorCurrent())
        editor.setIndicatorCurrent(indicator)
        editor.indicatorFillRange(s, e - s)
    temp = editor.findText(FINDOPTION.WHOLEWORD | FINDOPTION.MATCHCASE, e, endPos, 'if')

Cheers
Claudia

[Claudia Frank]

By the way, disabling smart highlighting doesn’t solve the issue because than another set indicator jumps in.

Cheers
Claudia

[dail]

another set indicator jumps in.

Probably the xml tag highlighting.

[Claudia Frank]

@dail

correct, if we disable smart and matching tags highlighting then it works as expected
but this, at least for me, isn’t desirable.

Cheers
Claudia

[dail]

@Claudia-Frank

but this, at least for me, isn’t desirable

Oh I totally agree, it was just to prove it was caused by N++ :)

[Js jS]

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[Js jS]

run this with the “if” block on screen
and again with the “if” block off screen

same result on “normal text” file

the “if” block has to be added

gets flagged as spam if i include it

from timeit import default_timer as timer

indicator = 12  # not sure what one is best to use but this works
editor.indicSetStyle       (indicator, INDICATORSTYLE.ROUNDBOX)
editor.indicSetAlpha       (indicator,  55)
editor.indicSetOutlineAlpha(indicator, 255)

first =  726
last  = 2260 

start = timer()
for s in range( first, last, 3):
    a=s
    editor.setIndicatorCurrent(indicator)
    editor.indicatorFillRange(s, 2)

end = timer()
console.write("4:\t%f\n" % (end - start))
  
start = timer()
for s in range( first, last, 3):
    a=s
    editor.setIndicatorCurrent(indicator)
    editor.indicatorClearRange(s, 2)

end = timer()
console.write("5:\t%f\n" % (end - start))

[Js jS]

forgot to mention …

open python console

turning off brace matching and smart highlighting makes no difference

npp 7.3.1 32 bit windows7 64bit

[Js jS]

addendum:

moving the mouse during the script execution causes misses in highlighting

[Claudia Frank]

@Js-jS

for me it is hard to see to whom you want to address to.
May I ask you to add the name of the recipients to your post?
Concerning the post, I’m not quite sure what you try to impart.
Are you surprised about time differences?

Cheers
Claudia

[Scott Sumner]

@Js-jS

I, too, am confused about what you are trying to demonstrate here. I’m more inclined to try code out if there is also a clear description about what it is doing that is odd or interesting. After reading such a description, I can decide if I want to try the code out or not (if there is something about it that is interesting to me…). Anyway, we kind of beat to death the “highlighting IFs” situation a couple of months ago…not sure what new there is to take away from it.

[Js jS]

i was just adding my findings, in case anyone was still looking at this issue

my knowledge is fairy limited, so i have not arrived to any real conclusion about the reason for the result