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    • Meta ChuhM
      Meta Chuh moderator @andrecool-68
      last edited by

      @andrecool-68

      yes, and most of the plugins are open source.

      but there are many developers that published source code, and had a very bad experience, as some rogue entities took profit on selling it, and worst case, trying or accomplishing to patent, what they have taken from another person’s open source project.

      so i can fully understand why some developers, especially the ones with a lot of bad experiences, choose to omit to publish any further source codes.

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      • andrecool-68A
        andrecool-68 @Meta Chuh
        last edited by andrecool-68

        @Meta-Chuh
        Me a thief and a bad seller turns out)))
        Parents are not taught to steal)))

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        • Meta ChuhM
          Meta Chuh moderator @andrecool-68
          last edited by

          @andrecool-68

          of course i did not mean you, but big, big enterprises.
          i hope this was a joke from you, because otherwise maybe you need a better translator after all 😉

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          • andrecool-68A
            andrecool-68 @Meta Chuh
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            @Meta-Chuh
            A translator is a robot, not a living person. You want to say one thing, but it turns out quite another.

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            • Tod MarT
              Tod Mar
              last edited by

              Super I’m glad I started the conversation but my 2nd question was where to find any doc. about adding icons to the toolbar and getting their events. I can search and find it but if anyone can point me anywhere. Also…the code here is classic Windows code without even MFC or ATL/WTL I assume?

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              • Alan KilbornA
                Alan Kilborn @Tod Mar
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                @Tod-Mar said:

                the code here is classic Windows code without even MFC or ATL/WTL I assume?

                Yes…double-edged sword I guess. Personally, I’m glad it is not MFC-based. I always found MFC to be a joke.

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                • Tod MarT
                  Tod Mar
                  last edited by

                  Yet some plugins are C#. I thought C# was only a .Net platform, but they could be compiled with .NET Native…

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                  • Alan KilbornA
                    Alan Kilborn @Tod Mar
                    last edited by Alan Kilborn

                    @Tod-Mar

                    You can write plugins in a lot of languages. Notepad++ itself is as you said, “classic Windows code”, C++ and straight Windows API function calls, so maybe the natural choice for a plugin is to stick with same.

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                    • Tod MarT
                      Tod Mar
                      last edited by

                      So you do everything using window handles and messages? how about icons/images? (looking at the toolbar…)

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                      • dinkumoilD
                        dinkumoil
                        last edited by dinkumoil

                        @Tod-Mar

                        When I started to develop plugins for Notepad++ the following links have been helpful:

                        How to develop a plugin or a lexer
                        Messages and notifications
                        Sources of plugin interface
                        Scintilla documentation

                        Regarding toolbar buttons

                        The handling of toolbar buttons is totally transparent to a plugin developer because they work like a menu entry.

                        A plugin developer has to fill an array at plugin’s startup that contains structs of type FuncItem. Every array element describes a menu entry of the plugin (text, click handler function, menu command id, Checked state, and keyboard shortcut).

                        Notepad++ queries a pointer to this array at a certain time in the startup process. It generates the menu entry of the plugin in the Plugins menu, adds for every array element a submenu entry and fills the menu command id member of the array elements. So you know the menu command ids of your menu entries.

                        If you want to have a toolbar button you have to hook the NPPN_TB_MODIFICATION event sent by Notepad++ to your plugin. In the handler of this event you have to fill a struct of type toolbarIcons (please note: you have to fill only one of its two members, either hToolbarBmp or hToolbarIcon but it seems only the first one works). The bitmap whose handle you provide has to be in a 8 bits-per-pixel palletized format (max. 256 colors) and its size has to be 16x16 pixels. Then you can send a NPPM_ADDTOOLBARICON event to Notepad++ where you provide the menu command id of the menu entry which you want to connect with your toolbar button and a pointer to the toolbarIcons struct you filled before.

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