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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
                                    last edited by

                                    @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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                                      • Eko palypseE
                                        Eko palypse @AZJIO AZJIO
                                        last edited by

                                        @AZJIO-AZJIO

                                        Sorry, didn’t recognize the update.
                                        Windows, sometimes, treats retrieving external and internal information differently.
                                        Means, something you retrieved from an exe might differ from something
                                        you want to retrieve within its own process.

                                        In python, I would it do like this

                                        import ctypes
                                        user32 = ctypes.WinDLL('user32')
                                        hwnd = user32.FindWindowExW(None, None, u'#32770', u'Replace')
                                        hwndEdit_1 = user32.GetDlgItem(hwnd, 1601)
                                        hwndEdit_2 = user32.GetDlgItem(hwnd, 1602)
                                        

                                        This takes care that only the dialog with name Replace is found.

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                                        • AZJIO AZJIOA
                                          AZJIO AZJIO
                                          last edited by

                                          I have done just that. Keyword only “Extended”. But using AutoIt3

                                          $hWnd = WinGetHandle(“[CLASS:Notepad++]”)
                                          If Not @error Then
                                          If BitAND(WinGetState($hWnd), 16) Then WinActivate($hWnd)
                                          _SendMessage($hWnd, $NPPM_MENUCOMMAND, 0, $IDM_SEARCH_REPLACE)
                                          $hWnd = WinWait(“[CLASS:#32770]”, “Extended”, 2)
                                          If $hWnd Then
                                          ControlSetText($hWnd, “Extended”, “Edit1”, _GUICtrlRichEdit_GetText($hRichEdit_SPE))
                                          ControlSetText($hWnd, “Extended”, “Edit2”, GUICtrlRead($PtnRep))
                                          ControlCommand($hWnd, “Extended”, “Button18”, ‘Check’) ; 18 - regular expression (16 - normal)
                                          EndIf
                                          EndIf


                                          on PureBasic code is the same for exe and dll. Search window “#32770” starts at the top, so it does not cause a problem. There are either no such windows or they are below.

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                                          • Eko palypseE
                                            Eko palypse
                                            last edited by

                                            Maybe I have a wrong assumption what you are actually doing.
                                            When you talk about an exe I assume that this is a different standalone program, correct?
                                            When you talked about dll I assumed that this might be a npp plugin.
                                            Now I get the feeling this is incorrect. Would you mind to explain what exactly is what
                                            and what your ultimate goal is?

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