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    • Scott SumnerS
      Scott Sumner @Claudia Frank
      last edited by Scott Sumner

      @Claudia-Frank

      I did notice something else that was a bit odd (and drove me a little nuts until I figured out what was going on) when I was working on that script. Let’s see if I can describe it. Usually I work with English_customizable.xml loaded, and everything is consistent and as-expected. When working on that script, I switched back to English.xml, thinking that if I share the script here, it should not use my specific and custom Find dialog captions, but rather the generic English ones.

      With English configured, I noticed that when Notepad++ starts up, it doesn’t exactly have English.xml set up, it has something close to it, but not exactly! I found that if I go back into the Preferences, and again select English from the dropdown (even though it is already selected), and have the Find dialog up at the same time, I can watch subtle changes occur in the Find dialog’s label/caption fields. For example, and I can watch a space be inserted (or removed) between “Find what” and the colon that follows (same for “Replace with”. I really have no idea why this is happening. Again, this only happens with English.xml, not English_customizable.xml.

      The reason it was making me crazy was that I’d work on the script, have it working fine, then later I would notice it was breaking because it couldn’t find the controls. I kept changing the text strings to make it work and then later it would break again.

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      • guy038G
        guy038
        last edited by

        Hello, @scott-sumner and @claudia-frank,

        Claudia, your automatic counting of any normal selection, multi-lines or not, works fine !

        Scott, your ReplaceWithBoxFromSelection.py script is working nice, too !. I’ve just noticed that your script, automatically, copies the current normal and unique selection, BOTH, in the Find what : and in the Replace with: boxes. Is it the normal behaviour or am I wrong about it ?


        This topic makes me think about an other possibility ! Let’s suppose that the option Settings > Preferences…> Editing > Multi-Editing Settings is enabled

        Now, the goal would be :

        • To define TWO selected blocks of text, which could, independently, include multiple lines

        • To Write a Python script which :

          • Opens the Find/Replace dialog

          • Writes the first user selection, in the Find what: box

          • Writes the second user selection, in the Replace with: box

        Scott and Claudia, what is your feeling about it ?

        Best Regards,

        guy038

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        • Claudia FrankC
          Claudia Frank @guy038
          last edited by Claudia Frank

          @Scott-Sumner and @guy038

          Scott, I discovered something similar but thought it was related to using npp with wine.
          If I open the find dialog and then switch from english to english_customizable and back
          to english I loose the >> from “find next” button and the underscores (ampersands in text)
          for the “count” and “find all in all opened documents” buttons.
          I don’t see it as an issue as you normally set this once and done, but I see why it bothered you. ;-)
          I have a shortcut to “Run Previous Script” which I use quite often.
          What happens from time to time is that I execute another script while editing
          the “current” script and then when I use the shortcut I assume that the current script
          should be executed, which isn’t the case as another script was executed in between.
          First thought I have in such a case is always, damn - what did I miss why isn’t it working anymore? What did I broke?
          Checking the source again and again just to find out that haven’t executed the script. :-)
          You see - seems to be “normal” programmer behavior ;-)

          Guy, haven’t check it yet but I guess it should be easy to implement, yes.
          If Scott, or anyone else hasn’t proposed a solution, I will give it a try in 10-12 hours.
          Need to leave now.

          Cheers
          Claudia

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          • Scott SumnerS
            Scott Sumner @guy038
            last edited by

            @guy038 said:

            copies the current normal and unique selection, BOTH, in the Find what : and in the Replace with: boxes

            Hmmm. Yes, that is what it does but that was actually UNINTENTIONAL! I guess I didn’t notice because for years I have had an AutoIt script which does just that behavior. A lot of the time when doing replacements, I’m just doing a minor adjustment to the text I am finding, so it saves time to have both the Find-what and Replace-with fields initally set to the same data. I just make my minor tweak to the replace-with part and I am off to the races.

            In this thread’s script (ReplaceWithBoxFromSelection.py), however, I believe this happens due to the normal invocation of the Replace command (with notepad.menuCommand(MENUCOMMAND.SEARCH_REPLACE))–when a selection is active, Notepad++ on its own puts the selected text in the Find-what box. Perhaps that is less than desirable here in this script. :(

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            • Scott SumnerS
              Scott Sumner @guy038
              last edited by

              @guy038 said:

              This topic makes me think about an other possibility

              I like your idea and it should be easy, but I will defer to Claudia as I am extremely busy at the moment. :-D

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              • guy038G
                guy038
                last edited by

                Hi, @scott-sumner and @claudia-frank

                Many thanks, in advance, for this future script ! This short post give me the opportunity to express, once again, all my gratitude towards you, Claudia and Scott, for your numerous scripts, on various topics, which helped us, significantly, so many times :-D

                Cheers,

                guy038

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                • Claudia FrankC
                  Claudia Frank @guy038
                  last edited by

                  @guy038, @scott-sumner

                  Hi Guy,

                  sorry, family celebration was a bit longer than expected.
                  Just did the script and some basic tests and discovered that encoding
                  is an issue like Scott already mentioned.
                  Will try to find a way to make it work regardless which encoding is used.

                  Cheers
                  Claudia

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                  • guy038G
                    guy038
                    last edited by

                    Hi, @claudia-frank,

                    Don’t worry, Claudia and just enjoy these family’s moments ! Luckily, we, all, own more valuable things than Notepad++ and some Python scripts :-D

                    …I’m just thinking about actualities and the death’s celebration of Helmut Kohl. Thanks to him and some important European women and men, we all enjoy, in Europe, a peace period, of near 75 years ! and THIS, it’s a basic point !!

                    Best Regards,

                    guy038

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                    • Claudia FrankC
                      Claudia Frank
                      last edited by Claudia Frank

                      From my basic tests it looks like it should do the trick.
                      Tested utf-8, ansi, winows-1250, winows-1251 and winows-1252.
                      It works only with normal selection - not with column mode selection.

                      import ctypes
                      from ctypes.wintypes import BOOL, HWND, LPARAM
                      
                      WNDENUMPROC = ctypes.WINFUNCTYPE(BOOL, HWND, LPARAM)
                      
                      FindWindow = ctypes.windll.user32.FindWindowW
                      FindWindowEx = ctypes.windll.user32.FindWindowExW
                      SendMessage = ctypes.windll.user32.SendMessageW
                      EnumChildWindows = ctypes.windll.user32.EnumChildWindows
                      GetClassName = ctypes.windll.user32.GetClassNameW
                      GetWindowText = ctypes.windll.user32.GetWindowTextW
                      GetWindowTextLength = ctypes.windll.user32.GetWindowTextLengthW
                      SetWindowText = ctypes.windll.user32.SetWindowTextW
                      GetACP = ctypes.windll.kernel32.GetACP
                      create_unicode_buffer = ctypes.create_unicode_buffer
                      
                      replace_tab_caption  = u'Replace'
                      replacewith_caption = u'Rep&lace with :'
                      replacewith_is_next_ctrl = False
                      replacewith_handle = None
                      replacewith_text = None
                      findwhat_caption = u'&Find what :'
                      findwhat_is_next_ctrl = False
                      findwhat_handle = None
                      findwhat_text = None
                      
                      
                      def EnumCallback(hwnd, lparam):
                          global replacewith_is_next_ctrl
                          global findwhat_is_next_ctrl
                          global replacewith_handle
                          global findwhat_handle
                          curr_class = create_unicode_buffer(256)
                          GetClassName(hwnd, curr_class, 256)
                          length = GetWindowTextLength(hwnd)
                          buff = ctypes.create_unicode_buffer(length + 1)
                          GetWindowText(hwnd, buff, length + 1)
                          if curr_class.value.lower() == 'static':
                              if buff.value == replacewith_caption:
                                  replacewith_is_next_ctrl = True
                              elif buff.value == findwhat_caption:
                                  findwhat_is_next_ctrl = True
                          elif curr_class.value.lower() == 'edit':
                              if findwhat_is_next_ctrl:
                                  findwhat_handle = hwnd
                                  findwhat_is_next_ctrl = False
                              elif replacewith_is_next_ctrl:
                                  replacewith_handle = hwnd
                                  replacewith_is_next_ctrl = False
                                  return False  # stop enumeration
                          return True  # let enumeration continue
                      
                      def return_proper_string(selected_text):
                          if notepad.getEncoding() == BUFFERENCODING.ENC8BIT:
                              _selected_text = unicode(selected_text, '{}'.format(GetACP()))
                          else:
                              _selected_text = unicode(selected_text, 'utf-8')
                          return _selected_text
                      
                      def main():
                          msg = ''
                          if editor.getSelections() == 2:
                              if editor.getSelectionMode() == 0 and not editor.getSelectionEmpty():
                                  _find_what = editor.getTextRange(editor.getSelectionNStart(0), editor.getSelectionNEnd(0))
                                  _replace_with = editor.getTextRange(editor.getSelectionNStart(1), editor.getSelectionNEnd(1))
                      
                                  if len(_find_what) > 2046:
                                      _find_what = _find_what[:2046]
                                      msg += 'Warning:  Selected text too long for find-what box; truncating to 2046 characters.  '
                                          
                                  if len(_replace_with) > 2046:
                                      _replace_with = _replace_with[:2046]
                                      msg += 'Warning:  Selected text too long for replace-with box; truncating to 2046 characters.  '
                                                              
                                  notepad.menuCommand(MENUCOMMAND.SEARCH_REPLACE)
                                  find_dialog_hwnd = FindWindow(None, replace_tab_caption)
                                  
                                  if find_dialog_hwnd:
                                      EnumChildWindows(find_dialog_hwnd, WNDENUMPROC(EnumCallback), 0)
                                      if findwhat_handle and replacewith_handle:
                                          if SetWindowText(findwhat_handle, return_proper_string(_find_what)) == 0:
                                              msg += 'Error:  Problem setting find-what text'
                                          if SetWindowText(replacewith_handle, return_proper_string(_replace_with)) == 0:
                                              msg += 'Error:  Problem setting replace-with text'
                                      else:
                                          msg += 'Error:  Bad value for replacewith_handle'
                                  else:
                                      msg += 'Error:  Bad value for find_dialog_hwnd'
                              else:
                                  msg += 'Error:  Either empty selection or unsupported selection mode detected'
                          else:
                              msg += 'Warning:  Only two selections are possible. Received:{}'.format(editor.getSelections())
                          if len(msg) > 0: notepad.messageBox(msg)
                      
                      main()
                      

                      Cheers
                      Claudia

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                      • guy038G
                        guy038
                        last edited by guy038

                        Hello, @claudia-frank,

                        What to say else ? Just wonderful and awesome, indeed !!!

                        I already tested the case of rectangular selection(s) and the upper limit of 2046 characters => No problem, it acts as expected :-)


                        Now, as always, when building a program, there’s a small bug with the lower limit of 0 character !

                        I, successively, tried to make an empty search selection, then an empty replace selection and, finally, both search and replace selections empty.

                        Note : To obtain, physically, a zero-length selection, I just select one character with the mouse, then move back the mouse, with a possible hit on the CTRL key, to only get the caret

                        Results :

                        • If both selections are empty, the message Error: Either empty selection or unsupported selection mode detected occurs, as expected. Nice !

                        • If, ONLY, the search selection is empty, the Find/Replace opens normally. May be, in that case, Claudia, a message would be better !

                        • If, ONLY, the replace selection is empty, the Find/Replace opens normally, with the Find what: box filled and the Replace with: empty. That the expected behaviour, in order to delete all the search blocks of text found

                        I also noticed that if I Ctrl + click and select some text, ONLY, it is, logically, inserted in the Replace with box, leaving the Find what: box empty :-D

                        But, if I, simply, click, without the Ctrl key, and select some text, the message Warning: Only two selections are possible. Received:1 occurs. However, Claudia, I think it’s a valid case.

                        So, in the case of a normal selection 0, only, the Find/Replace dialog should pop up and contain :

                        • A Find what: box, filled with the selection contents

                        • A Replace with: box, wiped out of any [previous] character

                        Best Regards,

                        guy038

                        P.S. :

                        I found out something weird, but logic : If I build a one-line rectangular selection, this selection is correctly written in the Find what: box !!

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                        • Claudia FrankC
                          Claudia Frank @guy038
                          last edited by Claudia Frank

                          @guy038

                          Guy, here the updated one.
                          A “one-selection” action results in opening the standard replace dialog behavior.
                          A “two-selections” action, even with an empty one, results in modifying the fields.
                          I see it as a benefit that you are able to decide that only one of the fields should be filled
                          and the other should be empty in any case.

                          import ctypes
                          from ctypes.wintypes import BOOL, HWND, LPARAM
                          
                          WNDENUMPROC = ctypes.WINFUNCTYPE(BOOL, HWND, LPARAM)
                          
                          FindWindow = ctypes.windll.user32.FindWindowW
                          FindWindowEx = ctypes.windll.user32.FindWindowExW
                          SendMessage = ctypes.windll.user32.SendMessageW
                          EnumChildWindows = ctypes.windll.user32.EnumChildWindows
                          GetClassName = ctypes.windll.user32.GetClassNameW
                          GetWindowText = ctypes.windll.user32.GetWindowTextW
                          GetWindowTextLength = ctypes.windll.user32.GetWindowTextLengthW
                          SetWindowText = ctypes.windll.user32.SetWindowTextW
                          GetACP = ctypes.windll.kernel32.GetACP
                          create_unicode_buffer = ctypes.create_unicode_buffer
                          
                          replace_tab_caption  = u'Replace'
                          replacewith_caption = u'Rep&lace with :'
                          replacewith_is_next_ctrl = False
                          replacewith_handle = None
                          replacewith_text = None
                          findwhat_caption = u'&Find what :'
                          findwhat_is_next_ctrl = False
                          findwhat_handle = None
                          findwhat_text = None
                          
                          
                          def EnumCallback(hwnd, lparam):
                              global replacewith_is_next_ctrl
                              global findwhat_is_next_ctrl
                              global replacewith_handle
                              global findwhat_handle
                              curr_class = create_unicode_buffer(256)
                              GetClassName(hwnd, curr_class, 256)
                              length = GetWindowTextLength(hwnd)
                              buff = ctypes.create_unicode_buffer(length + 1)
                              GetWindowText(hwnd, buff, length + 1)
                              if curr_class.value.lower() == 'static':
                                  if buff.value == replacewith_caption:
                                      replacewith_is_next_ctrl = True
                                  elif buff.value == findwhat_caption:
                                      findwhat_is_next_ctrl = True
                              elif curr_class.value.lower() == 'edit':
                                  if findwhat_is_next_ctrl:
                                      findwhat_handle = hwnd
                                      findwhat_is_next_ctrl = False
                                  elif replacewith_is_next_ctrl:
                                      replacewith_handle = hwnd
                                      replacewith_is_next_ctrl = False
                                      return False  # stop enumeration
                              return True  # let enumeration continue
                          
                          def return_proper_string(selected_text):
                              if notepad.getEncoding() == BUFFERENCODING.ENC8BIT:
                                  _selected_text = unicode(selected_text, '{}'.format(GetACP()))
                              else:
                                  _selected_text = unicode(selected_text, 'utf-8')
                              return _selected_text
                          
                          def main():
                              msg = ''
                              if editor.getSelections() == 1:
                                  notepad.menuCommand(MENUCOMMAND.SEARCH_REPLACE)
                              elif editor.getSelections() == 2:
                                  if editor.getSelectionMode() == 0 and not editor.getSelectionEmpty():
                                      _find_what = editor.getTextRange(editor.getSelectionNStart(0), editor.getSelectionNEnd(0))
                                      _replace_with = editor.getTextRange(editor.getSelectionNStart(1), editor.getSelectionNEnd(1))
                          
                                      if len(_find_what) > 2046:
                                          _find_what = _find_what[:2046]
                                          msg += 'Warning:  Selected text too long for find-what box; truncating to 2046 characters.  '
                                              
                                      if len(_replace_with) > 2046:
                                          _replace_with = _replace_with[:2046]
                                          msg += 'Warning:  Selected text too long for replace-with box; truncating to 2046 characters.  '
                                                                  
                                      notepad.menuCommand(MENUCOMMAND.SEARCH_REPLACE)
                                      find_dialog_hwnd = FindWindow(None, replace_tab_caption)
                                      
                                      if find_dialog_hwnd:
                                          EnumChildWindows(find_dialog_hwnd, WNDENUMPROC(EnumCallback), 0)
                                          if findwhat_handle and replacewith_handle:
                                              if SetWindowText(findwhat_handle, return_proper_string(_find_what)) == 0:
                                                  msg += 'Error:  Problem setting find-what text'
                                              if SetWindowText(replacewith_handle, return_proper_string(_replace_with)) == 0:
                                                  msg += 'Error:  Problem setting replace-with text'
                                          else:
                                              msg += 'Error:  Bad value for replacewith_handle'
                                      else:
                                          msg += 'Error:  Bad value for find_dialog_hwnd'
                                  else:
                                      msg += 'Error:  Either empty selection or unsupported selection mode detected'
                              else:
                                  msg += 'Warning:  Only one or two selections are possible. Received:{}'.format(editor.getSelections())
                              if len(msg) > 0: notepad.messageBox(msg)
                          
                          main()
                          

                          Cheers
                          Claudia

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                          • guy038G
                            guy038
                            last edited by guy038

                            Hello, @claudia-frank, @Scott-sumner, @pouemes44, @go2to, @jorge-campos, @herofiles, @azjio-azjio, @alan-kilborn and All

                            Thanks to @claudia-frank, this present topic and the discussions, below, about multi-lines search AND multi-lines Replacement :

                            https://notepad-plus-plus.org/community/topic/13823/replace-function/1

                            https://notepad-plus-plus.org/community/topic/13684/feature-request-textarea-search-replace/1

                            have, now, an ELEGANT solution, with her Python’s script, just above !

                            You just need to be able to do multiple selections ( Option Settings > Preferences… > Editing > Multi-Editing Settings > Enable CHECKED )


                            BTW, the upper limit of 2046 characters, in the Find what: box of the Find/Replace dialog, only, could be by-passed, easily :-). Indeed, just use the Regular expression search mode and use the generic regex (?s)Left-boundary.+?Right-boundary !

                            For instance, you can choose a particular character, which does not exist,yet, in your file(s) to be modified, and build the regex :

                            (?s)(#####\R).+?\1

                            This regex contains any non-null amount of characters between TWO same complete lines #####, with their line-breaks

                            So :

                            • Do a normal selection of this regex (?s)(#####\R).+?\1, using the mouse

                            • Then, with a Ctrl + Left Click action, simply, select your Replace block, multi-lines or not

                            • Run the Claudia’s script above

                            => Immediately, the Find/Replace dialog pops-up and :

                            • The Find what: box is filled with the regex (?s)(#####\R).+?\1

                            • The Replace with: box is filled with the block of text, which must replace the searched text

                            Best Regards,

                            guy038

                            P.S. :

                            @claudia-frank, I understand your point of view. Your script is quite flexible :-D. For instance, I was able to :

                            • First, do a Ctrl + Clic selection of a multi-lines block of text

                            • Run your script => Find what: box empty and Replace with: box filled with that multi-lines block

                            • Select an second file, containing the text (?s)(#####\R).+?\1

                            • Do a normal selection of that regex

                            • Run again, your script => The find.Replace dialog, presently in the background, is, then, updated with this regex, filled in the Find what: box

                            • Select a third file, containing the ##### boundaries lines

                            • Perform the S/R on the contents of this third file

                            Et voilà !!

                            Many thanks, again, for this very, very, valuable script, indeed !!!

                            Hum… Already 3 h 25 !! I’d better go to bed : working tomorrow !

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                            • AZJIO AZJIOA
                              AZJIO AZJIO
                              last edited by

                              It would be nice if the author would make an additional window when the button is clicked
                              [http://radikal.ru/big/m0wcdchejv3ve](link url)

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                              • AZJIO AZJIOA
                                AZJIO AZJIO
                                last edited by

                                The external program is working. I make a plugin and no longer works (EnumChildWindows).

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                                • Eko palypseE
                                  Eko palypse
                                  last edited by

                                  Sorry, but what are you try to tell us?
                                  Which external program and which meaning has EnumChildWindows API in this context?

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                                  • AZJIO AZJIOA
                                    AZJIO AZJIO
                                    last edited by

                                    I wrote a program for the test of regular expressions. It serves as a database. When you click a button, it fills in the search and replace fields.
                                    I decided to make a plugin that will do the same. But the same program (exe and dll) work differently. EXE fills the fields, but the DLL can not fill.
                                    I tried using EnumChildWindows to find the elements of the window, as is done in the examples above. But as a result, he found only 3 elements.
                                    0 hwnd = 725602 Class = Button Title = Caption
                                    1 hwnd = 2233572 Class = Static Title =
                                    2 hwnd = 1707882 Class = SysTabControl32 Title = Tab1

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                                    • Eko palypseE
                                      Eko palypse @AZJIO AZJIO
                                      last edited by

                                      @AZJIO-AZJIO

                                      without seeing/understanding the actual code it is hard to say what might be the issue
                                      but, personally, I would not recommend using EnumChildWindows when trying to find a
                                      dialog control window handle, instead use GetDlgItem.

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                                      • AZJIO AZJIOA
                                        AZJIO AZJIO
                                        last edited by

                                        ; PureBasic
                                        hwnd = FindWindowEx_(NppData_nppHandle, 0, “#32770”, 0) ; hwnd = yes
                                        If Not IsWindowVisible_(hwnd)
                                        SendMessage_(NppData_nppHandle, #NPPM_MENUCOMMAND, 0, #IDM_SEARCH_REPLACE) ; Показать диалог поиска используя команду меню
                                        EndIf
                                        hwndEdit_1 = GetDlgItem_(hwnd, 1601) ; hwndEdit_1 = 0
                                        hwndEdit_2 = GetDlgItem_(hwnd, 1602) ; hwndEdit_2 = 0
                                        SendMessage_(hwndEdit_1,#WM_SETTEXT,0,GetGadgetItemText(#Combo_2 , n-1, 0))
                                        SendMessage_(hwndEdit_2,#WM_SETTEXT,0,GetGadgetItemText(#Combo_2 , n-1, 1))

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                                        • Eko palypseE
                                          Eko palypse
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                                          @AZJIO-AZJIO said:

                                          #32770

                                          be careful about searching for the ordinal only, as every dialog uses it.
                                          https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/winmsg/about-window-classes
                                          Most plugins and internal npp windows are dialogs.

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                                          • AZJIO AZJIOA
                                            AZJIO AZJIO
                                            last edited by

                                            I know it. I do not set the window class. I have no way to change this. The external program, as I said, works.
                                            https://a.radikal.ru/a21/1902/55/0723e06a798a.png

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