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    • tomasz1986T
      tomasz1986
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      Thank you very much for this plugin.

      The line spacing settings make it finally possible to set the line height without hacking around with font sizes in the theme xml files.

      I also very much like being able to modify the match highlighting colours separately, so that it is possible to only have the border visible with no background colour, like below.

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      • tomasz1986T
        tomasz1986
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        I also very much like being able to modify the match highlighting colours separately, so that it is possible to only have the border visible with no background colour, like below.

        I am not allowed to edit the post above any more, so I just want to clarify that I meant the colour filling settings, and not some kind of multiple colours.

        In relation to this, I also have a question - is it possible to have this kind of highlighting customisation for the ordinary text selection too, or is it limited to the smart highlighting only?

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        • dinkumoilD
          dinkumoil @tomasz1986
          last edited by dinkumoil

          @tomasz1986 said in [New Plugin] ExtSettings:

          is it possible to have this kind of highlighting customisation for the ordinary text selection too

          You can configure the background color of selected text in the style configurator.

          Go to (menu) Settings -> Style Configurator -> (list box) Style -> Selected text colour -> (group box) Colour Style -> Background colour.

          Click on the colored panel to open a color selection dialog.

          With my plugin you can set the alpha value for selected text.

          @all
          To provide the same configuration options for selected text as for match highlighting I have to know how highlighting of selected text is implemented internally. Is it a certain indicator like match highlighting (its number is 29, thanks to @Ekopalypse who pointed that out somewhere)?

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          • EkopalypseE
            Ekopalypse @dinkumoil
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            @dinkumoil

            selected text is handled internally by scintilla with SCI_SETSELFORE and SCI_SETSELBACK

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            • EkopalypseE
              Ekopalypse
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              @dinkumoil - btw. there is no SCI_GET… equivalent of those calls, so if it is
              needed to store the default value in case of resets then you have to read the
              config.xml to get the current used styler.xml/theme.xml and read the value from there. :-(

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              • dinkumoilD
                dinkumoil @Ekopalypse
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                @Ekopalypse
                Thank you for providing these information.

                @tomasz1986
                As you can see it is only possible to set the character color and the background color of selected text. No fancy boxes with filling and borders, sorry.

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                • tomasz1986T
                  tomasz1986
                  last edited by tomasz1986

                  @dinkumoil said in [New Plugin] ExtSettings:

                  As you can see it is only possible to set the character color and the background color of selected text. No fancy boxes with filling and borders, sorry.

                  No problem. Thank you for investigating.

                  You mentioned the “character color”, but Notepad++ ignores the fgColor value for “Current line background colour”, so as far as I understand, it is only possible to modify bgColor of selected text. Your plugin, in addition, allows to modify the transparency, which is then applied to both the background and the text.

                  Is this correct?

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                  • dinkumoilD
                    dinkumoil @tomasz1986
                    last edited by dinkumoil

                    @tomasz1986 said:

                    as I understand, it is only possible to modify bgColor of selected text

                    That’s true, technically it is possible to set a background and a character color but Notepad++ doesn’t support the latter one.

                    Notepad++ ignores the fgColor value for “Current line background colour”

                    Why do you think so? Style configurator provides an option to configure that setting.

                    Your plugin … allows to modify the transparency, which is then applied to both the background and the text.

                    No. The alpha value for selections which my plugin can set only changes the opacity of the background color, i.e. the selection color.

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                    • EkopalypseE
                      Ekopalypse
                      last edited by

                      @dinkumoil

                      a new scintilla feature is showing dots next to a folded line
                      Maybe worth including to your plugin?

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                      • tomasz1986T
                        tomasz1986 @dinkumoil
                        last edited by

                        @dinkumoil said in [New Plugin] ExtSettings:

                        @tomasz1986 said:

                        as I understand, it is only possible to modify bgColor of selected text

                        That’s true, technically it is possible to set a background and a character color but Notepad++ doesn’t support the latter one.

                        Notepad++ ignores the fgColor value for “Current line background colour”

                        Why do you think so? Style configurator provides an option to configure that setting.

                        Are these two sentences not contradicting? The setting is indeed there, but the selected text colour does not change, no matter what colour is specified there. Only the background colour changes.

                        On the topic: https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/12578/can-t-change-foreground-color-of-selected-text

                        I hope that we are talking about the same thing here. I use “fgColor” to mean the text/font colour, and “bgColor” to mean the background colour, as this is how they are used in the themes xml files.

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                        • tomasz1986T
                          tomasz1986
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                          On the other hand, enforcing the text colour with external scripts (as explained in the other thread linked above) overwrites all syntax highlighting in the selected field of text, so it can become problematic very quickly, and I am not really sure if this is really worth it. That is why I myself would prefer a box style selection :). Since you said that it was not possible, it is probably better to leave the issue as it is, and focus on more important things. I have managed to get the job done with the standard text selection fine enough.

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                          • dinkumoilD
                            dinkumoil @Ekopalypse
                            last edited by

                            @Ekopalypse said in [New Plugin] ExtSettings:

                            Maybe worth including to your plugin?

                            Indeed, I think it is. I will put it on my list.

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                            • dinkumoilD
                              dinkumoil @tomasz1986
                              last edited by

                              @tomasz1986 said in [New Plugin] ExtSettings:

                              Are these two sentences not contradicting?

                              I hope that we are talking about the same thing here. I use “fgColor” to mean the text/font colour, and “bgColor” to mean the background colour

                              Sorry, I’ve messed up things. To be clear I should thoroughly define what I’m talking about.

                              Selection highlighting

                              Technically it is possible to set a background and a character color for selection highlighting but Notepad++ doesn’t support the latter one, respectively it ignores the according setting that may be available in whatever config file.

                              Current line highlighting

                              As in Style Configurator the setting is named “Current line background colour”, it is only possible to configure the background color of the current line highlighting. Notepad++ doesn’t support configuring the character color, respectively it ignores the according setting that may be available in whatever config file. I don’t know if there is a Scintilla setting that would allow to set the character color of the current highlighted line. I don’t know as well how current line highlighting is implemented internally. Maybe @Ekopalypse can provide this information?


                              enforcing the text colour with external scripts … overwrites all syntax highlighting in the selected field of text

                              Yes, thats the reason why I’ve never thought about changing text colors of selection or current line highlighting and would never include such a feature in my plugin.

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                              • EkopalypseE
                                Ekopalypse @tomasz1986
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                                @tomasz1986

                                one possible alternative would be to disable that behavior at all
                                and using indicators with a scripting language plugin like
                                this. Note, code is just a demo - I haven’t really looked deeper to see
                                whether there is something else to do.

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                                • EkopalypseE
                                  Ekopalypse @dinkumoil
                                  last edited by

                                  @dinkumoil @tomasz1986

                                  sorry but to be honest, I am lost about your discussion with selection and highlighting. If we talk about the selecting lines then the scintilla functions
                                  SCI_SETSELFORE(bool useSetting, colour fore) (this is fgColor which isn’t used by npp)
                                  SCI_SETSELBACK(bool useSetting, colour back)
                                  needs to be used. If it is about the other matches then it is smart highlighting
                                  and what are you talking about?

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                                  • dinkumoilD
                                    dinkumoil @Ekopalypse
                                    last edited by

                                    @Ekopalypse said in [New Plugin] ExtSettings:

                                    what are you talking about?

                                    After finishing the topic “selection highlighting” @tomasz1986 started talking about “current line highlighting”. I’ve messed up things in my answer and wanted to clarify later on. But I think we should let it go now…

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                                    • tomasz1986T
                                      tomasz1986 @Ekopalypse
                                      last edited by tomasz1986

                                      @Ekopalypse said in [New Plugin] ExtSettings:

                                      and what are you talking about?

                                      Yeah, I was just happy that I could set “filling alpha” to “0” and “outline alpha” to “255”, so that Smart Highlighting would show only border with no background colour (which is the same as in Sublime Text, by the way). Then, I started asking about doing the same for ordinary (i.e. not smart) text selection, and the discussion went from there.

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                                      • tomasz1986T
                                        tomasz1986
                                        last edited by tomasz1986

                                        @dinkumoil I think I have found a small issue regarding the plugin’s settings and about windows. When I open any of them, and then switch to a different program in Windows, it is impossible to go back to Notepad++ by clicking its taskbar button. I can only go back by using Alt+Tab. Just for reference, as I have not checked other Windows versions, this is happening in Windows 7 Enterprise x64 with Classic Theme enabled.

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                                        • dinkumoilD
                                          dinkumoil @tomasz1986
                                          last edited by

                                          @tomasz1986 said in [New Plugin] ExtSettings:

                                          found a small issue regarding the plugin’s settings … When I open any of them, and then switch to a different program in Windows, it is impossible to go back to Notepad++ by clicking its taskbar button.

                                          Thank you, I will have a look at that.

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                                          • EkopalypseE
                                            Ekopalypse
                                            last edited by

                                            @dinkumoil

                                            another one :-) (npp doesn’t use it at all as far as I can see)
                                            The differences, between 0 and 1, are more visible on the display as
                                            in the image but I guess still noticeable.

                                            my default font size

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                                            max font size

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