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    • patrickdrdP
      patrickdrd
      last edited by

      yes, it’s pretty good!!

      some help with date formating?

      I would prefer dd/mm/yyyy hh:mm please :D

      e.g. 13/02/2018 15:14

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

        @patrickdrd

        using

        last_modified_date.strftime('%d/%m/%Y %H:%M')
        

        should do the trick.
        More infos, if other format is wanted can be seen here.

        Cheers
        Claudia

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        • Scott SumnerS
          Scott Sumner @Claudia Frank
          last edited by

          This might be a more direct link than Claudia’s…for what seems to be wanted for adjustment.

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          • patrickdrdP
            patrickdrd
            last edited by

            why do I have to link anywhere inside the file in order for it to work?
            I mean when I double click on a file from windows explorer,
            I have set initialization atstartup,
            does it need something else/more maybe?

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            • patrickdrdP
              patrickdrd
              last edited by

              I think I found that, I added:

              notepad.callback(StatusbarSelOverride, [NOTIFICATION.READY])

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              • Scott SumnerS
                Scott Sumner @patrickdrd
                last edited by

                @patrickdrd said:

                notepad.callback(StatusbarSelOverride, [NOTIFICATION.READY])

                Interesting. I found that I don’t need the “READY”–I don’t have to click inside the document tab to see the mod time updated after loading a file. I don’t use Explorer integration such that a double-click opens the file in Notepad++, but it works for me either via Explorer right-click or drag-n-drop from Explorer.

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                • SalviaSageS
                  SalviaSage
                  last edited by

                  patrickdd, have you been able to add the modified date to the section 1 of the statusbar, where the language name is, without overriding the language name? if so, can you please post the full code? thanks.

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                  • Scott SumnerS
                    Scott Sumner @SalviaSage
                    last edited by

                    @SalviaSage said:

                    section 1 of the statusbar

                    Just change .DOCSIZE to .DOCTYPE. No need to post more code.

                    That kind of change should be really obvious from the third posting I made (the one with the images of the status bar) in this thread.

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                    • patrickdrdP
                      patrickdrd
                      last edited by

                      Scott, the difference is that notepad++ is closed in my case, before opening the file, in that case only initial script doesn’t work

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                      • Scott SumnerS
                        Scott Sumner @patrickdrd
                        last edited by

                        @patrickdrd said:

                        notepad++ is closed in my case, before opening the file

                        Yeah, that’s a case I don’t think about, or code for. Because, as the best program on my PC, Notepad++ never gets closed. :-D

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                        • Claudia FrankC
                          Claudia Frank @patrickdrd
                          last edited by

                          @patrickdrd

                          does READY callback work for you?
                          It seems that this one can’t really be used when running on linux.
                          BUFFERACTIVATED might be another callback which is useful in such cases.

                          Cheers
                          Claudia

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                          • Scott SumnerS
                            Scott Sumner
                            last edited by PeterJones

                            …without overriding the language name?

                            Ah…so I guess I missed this part of @SalviaSage 's posting. Okay, so there is no prebuilt function to get the statusbar data, like there is to set the statusbar data…but we can create one:

                            import ctypes
                            from ctypes.wintypes import BOOL, HWND, LPARAM
                            
                            def npp_get_statusbar(statusbar_item_number):
                            
                                WNDENUMPROC = ctypes.WINFUNCTYPE(BOOL, HWND, LPARAM)
                                FindWindow = ctypes.windll.user32.FindWindowW
                                SendMessage = ctypes.windll.user32.SendMessageW
                                EnumChildWindows = ctypes.windll.user32.EnumChildWindows
                                GetClassName = ctypes.windll.user32.GetClassNameW
                                create_unicode_buffer = ctypes.create_unicode_buffer
                                WM_USER = 0x400; SB_GETTEXTLENGTHW = WM_USER + 12; SB_GETTEXTW = WM_USER + 13
                            
                                npp_get_statusbar.STATUSBAR_HANDLE = None
                            
                                def get_data_from_statusbar(statusbar_item_number):
                                    retcode = SendMessage(npp_get_statusbar.STATUSBAR_HANDLE, SB_GETTEXTLENGTHW, statusbar_item_number, 0)
                                    length = retcode & 0xFFFF
                                    type = (retcode >> 16) & 0xFFFF
                                    text_buffer = create_unicode_buffer(length)
                                    retcode = SendMessage(npp_get_statusbar.STATUSBAR_HANDLE, SB_GETTEXTW, statusbar_item_number, text_buffer)
                                    retval = '{}'.format(text_buffer[:length])
                                    return retval
                            
                                def EnumCallback(hwnd, lparam):
                                    curr_class = create_unicode_buffer(256)
                                    GetClassName(hwnd, curr_class, 256)
                                    if curr_class.value.lower() == "msctls_statusbar32":
                                        npp_get_statusbar.STATUSBAR_HANDLE = hwnd
                                        return False
                                    return True
                            
                                EnumChildWindows(FindWindow(u"Notepad++", None), WNDENUMPROC(EnumCallback), 0)
                            
                                return get_data_from_statusbar(statusbar_item_number) if npp_get_statusbar.STATUSBAR_HANDLE else None
                            

                            Thus to add the modification timestamp info to the first section of the status bar, one would call npp_get_statusbar(0) and then use the returned string (if not None) by adding the time to it, e.g.:

                            notepad.setStatusBar(STATUSBARSECTION.DOCTYPE, npp_get_statusbar(0) + ' ' * 8 + last_modified_date)

                            I’m sure the basis for this status bar code goes back to some @Claudia-Frank code, but I can’t find the reference to it right now. Sorry, CF.

                            -----
                            note from the future: if this code gives you all NULL for the characters read back from the status bar, use the updated code found in this 2024 post

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                            • patrickdrdP
                              patrickdrd
                              last edited by patrickdrd

                              yes, it works CF

                              I tried BUFFERACTIVATED but it didn’t work

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                              • SalviaSageS
                                SalviaSage
                                last edited by SalviaSage

                                @patrickdrd, have you been able to get this working? I’ve been trying here from my end. I can’t get the last modified date to display on the statusbar. If you have been able to get this working, can you please post the code?

                                Thank you.

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                                • patrickdrdP
                                  patrickdrd
                                  last edited by

                                  from Npp import editor, notepad, SCINTILLANOTIFICATION, NOTIFICATION, STATUSBARSECTION
                                  import os
                                  from datetime import datetime

                                  def StatusbarSelOverride(args):
                                  modified_time = os.path.getmtime(notepad.getCurrentFilename())
                                  last_modified_date = datetime.fromtimestamp(modified_time)
                                  notepad.setStatusBar(STATUSBARSECTION.DOCTYPE, ‘Mod: {:%d/%m/%Y %H:%M}’.format(last_modified_date))

                                  editor.callback(StatusbarSelOverride, [SCINTILLANOTIFICATION.UPDATEUI])
                                  notepad.callback(StatusbarSelOverride, [NOTIFICATION.FILESAVED])
                                  notepad.callback(StatusbarSelOverride, [NOTIFICATION.READY])

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                                  • SalviaSageS
                                    SalviaSage
                                    last edited by

                                    I still can’t figure out how to add the timestamp and still keep the original contents of a statusbar section.

                                    Scott Sumner, I would appreciate it very much if you can fix this code and post it here. thank you.

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                                    • patrickdrdP
                                      patrickdrd
                                      last edited by

                                      I don’t think you need the original contents, if we’re talking about the first tab,
                                      is DOCTYPE really that important for you?
                                      If so, why?
                                      I can’t think that’s important, that’s why I’m overwriting it

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                                      • dailD
                                        dail @SalviaSage
                                        last edited by dail

                                        Using LuaScript I’ve been able to keep the doc type and display the file modification time. Should be easily translatable to PythonScript.

                                        Note this works with a yet-to-be released version of LuaScript

                                        npp.AddEventHandler({"OnSave", "OnSwitchFile", "OnLangChange"}, function()
                                        	-- Make sure it is a "real" file first
                                        	if npp:GetCurrentDirectory() == "" then
                                        		return
                                        	end
                                        
                                        	local text = npp.LanguageDescription[npp.BufferLangType[npp.CurrentBufferID]] .. " - " .. os.date('%d/%m/%Y %H:%M', winfile.attributes(npp:GetFullCurrentPath(), "modification"))
                                        	npp.StatusBar[STATUSBAR_DOC_TYPE] = text
                                        end)
                                        

                                        Gives the results:

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                                        • Claudia FrankC
                                          Claudia Frank @dail
                                          last edited by

                                          @dail

                                          unfortunately not, as python script hasn’t been updated with recent npp messages yet.

                                          Cheers
                                          Claudia

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                                          • dailD
                                            dail @Claudia Frank
                                            last edited by

                                            @Claudia-Frank

                                            Ah. Thanks for clarifying.

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