Help with generating clickable links or something of that sort

[jakima]

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

[Ekopalypse]

@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

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

[Alan Kilborn]

@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.

[Ekopalypse]

@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.

[jakima]

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

[Ekopalypse]

@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.

[jakima]

@Ekopalypse
ah, ok. again thanks a lot.

[jakima]

@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

[jakima]

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’

[Ekopalypse]

@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.