I may “borrow” that :-)

@dinkumoil

It’s in Pascal! argh! I converted your recommendation into C++ (i think):

    TCHAR langName[MAX_PATH];
    lang_menu.clear();
    do
    {
        SendMessage( nppData._nppHandle, NPPM_GETLANGUAGENAME, i, ( LPARAM ) langName );
        lang_menu.push_back( wstrtostr( langName ));
        i++;
    } while ( strcmp( wstrtostr( langName ).c_str(), "External" ) != 0 );
    lang_menu.push_back( "GLOBAL" );

This way no dependence on L_EXTERNAL or the Notepad_plus_msgs.h file.

Thanks for taking the time to recommend that!

Cheers.

I solved the same problem in my AutoCodepage plugin by querying language names in a repeat…until loop, that terminates if the returned language name equals to External

I may “borrow” that :-)

Thanks!

The disadvantage of your method is that you have to update your Notepad_plus_msgs.h file and recompile and redistribute your plugin everytime a new programming language is added to Notepad++.

I solved the same problem in my AutoCodepage plugin by querying language names in a repeat…until loop, that terminates if the returned language name equals to External. This way I don’t need to recompile and redistribute my plugin only because of extended programming language support of Notepad++.

Additional hint: My loop doesn’t process L_USER and L_JS.

what about something like this pseudo code

Here is the actual code I used:

vector<string> lang_menu;

std::string wstrtostr( const std::wstring &wstr )
{
    // Convert a Unicode string to an ASCII string



[...]
    lang_menu.clear();
    for ( int i = 0; i <= L_EXTERNAL; i++ )
    {
        TCHAR langName[MAX_PATH];
        SendMessage( nppData._nppHandle, NPPM_GETLANGUAGENAME, i, ( LPARAM ) langName );
        lang_menu.push_back( wstrtostr( langName ));
    }
[...]

Thanks a million!

Cheers.

L_EXTERNAL should be always the last entry in LangType

In fact you’re correct:

"Notepad_plus_msgs.h”:

			   // The end of enumated language type, so it should be always at the end
			   L_EXTERNAL};

So your code makes perfect sense and it was something obvious I was missing! Thanks!

SOLVED!

Cheers.

what about something like this pseudo code

enum LangType {L_TEXT, L_PHP , L_C, ... L_EXTERNAL};

for ( int i=0; i<LangType.L_EXTERNAL; i++ )
{
   langArray[i] = NPPM_GETLANGUAGENAME (i)
}

L_EXTERNAL should be always the last entry in LangType