Using text in n++ window as input for function
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Hello,
I’m not really a programmer but am working on a plugin that alleviate some repetitive formatting I need to do multiple times daily for a system. So far I have the c# code functioning as intended and I’ve added it into a template from the plugin page while making some modifications to the template.
I am at a point where I should just need to get the input for the plugin and it should be ready to start testing. Unfortunately I’m not sure how to do this. I imagine that the namespace or some other prebuilt template code is used for this but I’m having a heck of a time finding it on my own looking through everything. I’ve also tried looking for example source code in hopes of finding a plugin that does something similar but to no fruition.
I guess, for a straight example, say I open up notepad++ and type in “Hello world !” - I would like to have my plugin use that text on the window to, lets say insert a new line for every space, so the plugin would alter the text on the window from…
Hello world !
to…
Hello
world
!This seems like it would be a basic thing for plugins to do, so my apologies, I’m afraid my lack of experience makes sifting through the template a very overwhelming task. Thank you in advance for any assistance.
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the first hing to understand is that a plugin has to work with at least two core objects,
namely notepad++ and scintilla.
Scintilla is the core component which is responsible for modifying/styling the text.
Which means that in your case in order to be able to retrieve the text you need to
get a reference/instance of the scintilla object and send/call the SCI_GETTEXT method.
How this is done in C# - I don’t know.
With pythonscript plugin it is as easy as callingeditor.getText()as the plugin
provided editor being the scintilla component and getText being a wrapper around SCI_GETTEXT. -
Thank you Eko! I should be able to figure it out from here.
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well where is your repository at github.com
