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    • jakimaJ
      jakima
      last edited by jakima

      yes i want to create clickable links that take me to a line with the same number using that text file

      btw this is my new one. for some reason that acc got flagged

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      • jakimaJ
        jakima @Ekopalypse
        last edited by

        @Ekopalypse
        this is the only proof i have regarding the fact that im the one who posted this
        tinyurl com/npptodopost

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        • EkopalypseE
          Ekopalypse @jakima
          last edited by

          @jakima

          wait, let me try to get this right.
          Your goal is to run a cmd/batch file and the result of that batch file
          contains links which you want to click and those will bring you to the location in that file, correct?

          Like in this example
          4678731f-6f3a-462b-ba3b-c359c913b6d7-image.png

          If I would click on the link in the Python console it would
          a) open the file test.py and
          b) set the caret to line 2

          Is it that what you try to achieve?

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          • jakimaJ
            jakima @Ekopalypse
            last edited by

            @Ekopalypse
            exactly

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            • jakimaJ
              jakima @Ekopalypse
              last edited by jakima

              @Ekopalypse
              can i manually generate such links in console? using python scripter of course

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              • EkopalypseE
                Ekopalypse @jakima
                last edited by

                @jakima

                yes you can, assuming the following batch file

                @echo off
                SET a=  File
                SET b=, line 3, in
                SET c=%a% "%0"%b%
                echo %c%
                

                and calling the batch from either the console or via script with

                console.run(r"cmd.exe /c d:\mybatch.bat")

                would result in something like

                db601700-b891-4fbd-9ab8-ce9e519db85a-image.png

                and clicking on the link will do what I assume you want to do.

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                • Alan KilbornA
                  Alan Kilborn
                  last edited by

                  @Ekopalypse

                  Just how does the Pythonscript console do those underlined links?
                  One presumes the console window is just another Scintilla window…

                  It might be nice if in Notepad++ tab windows filenames would appear that way, and provide an easier way for opening files into N++ than the built in open-file-under-caret mechanisms (which aren’t too good).

                  The P.S. console window even nicely handles filepaths with spaces in them; but this is a more “controlled” environment where a tool is handling the path/filename creation, so it may be easier to handle than free-form user text in a N++ tab.

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                  • EkopalypseE
                    Ekopalypse @Alan Kilborn
                    last edited by

                    @Alan-Kilborn

                    Just how does the Pythonscript console do those underlined links?

                    it does act like a lexer.
                    It waits for the SCN_STYLENEEDED notification and styles the output text accordingly.

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                    • jakimaJ
                      jakima @Ekopalypse
                      last edited by

                      @Ekopalypse
                      ok i’ll try this. thank you.
                      but… can python script directly interact with the text file to print to console?

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                      • EkopalypseE
                        Ekopalypse @jakima
                        last edited by

                        @jakima said in Help with generating clickable links or something of that sort:

                        but… can python script directly interact with the text file to print to console?

                        yes, run it through this console.run(r"cmd.exe /c d:\mybatch.bat")
                        it will redirect the output of the cmd window to the console window.

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                        • jakimaJ
                          jakima @Ekopalypse
                          last edited by

                          @Ekopalypse
                          ah, ok. again thanks a lot.

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                          • jakimaJ
                            jakima @Ekopalypse
                            last edited by

                            @Ekopalypse
                            you’re awesome!!!
                            it works as expected.
                            sure, i have to figure out the iterating over notepad part. but yeah, it works!!!
                            i cant thank you enough

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                            • jakimaJ
                              jakima @Ekopalypse
                              last edited by

                              I figured out the iterating part and found some other things while at it

                              • the output from the bat has to be on a new line or it wont work

                              • you dont necessarily need the “, in” part in the second variable ‘b’

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                              • EkopalypseE
                                Ekopalypse @jakima
                                last edited by

                                @jakima

                                Yes, it must start with <space><space>File<space>" to be identified as an “linkeable” string
                                and then it reads the rest of that line to see what kind of informations are available.

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