Changing context menu text in a language.xml

guy038 · Mar 22, 2021, 2:42 PM

Hello, @peter-greistorfer, @Alan-kilborn, @peterjones and All,

In addition to the coloured boxes, with the new versions, it also follows any change of colour, just done in Settings > Style Configurator... > Global Styles > Style Mark Style 1 to 5, even without restarting N++. Whaoou ;-))

BR

guy038

Alan Kilborn · Mar 22, 2021, 2:48 PM

@PeterJones said in Changing context menu text in a language.xml:

Interestingly, if you have more than one instance of that style entry in the contextMenu, only the first instance will have the color box:

It begs the question: If, when doing a pointless thing, if a harmless inconsistency occurs, is it called a bug?
Or is it merely an “interestingly…”

Peter Greistorfer · Mar 22, 2021, 3:25 PM

You guys are great, thanks a lot for your fast help!

Finally, I’m just using <Item ItemNameAs="CYAN " id=“43022”/> (of course, it’s not BLUE!), which gives me direct access to that colour. Unfortunately, the best, those coloured boxes, doesn’t appear … Does it depend on npp’s version, I’m not running the latest build …

And, if it’s allowed (<=>my problems are already solved), what’s the reason I couldn’t edit that “Using 1st style”-entry in the language-files?

PeterJones · Mar 22, 2021, 3:57 PM

@Peter-Greistorfer said in Changing context menu text in a language.xml:

You guys are great, thanks a lot for your fast help!

Glad it helped.

Unfortunately, the best, those coloured boxes, doesn’t appear … Does it depend on npp’s version, I’m not running the latest build …

Interesting. It’s in the v7.9.2 changelog: I had forgotten that was so recent. Probably because I rarely look at the styling commands.

what’s the reason I couldn’t edit that “Using 1st style”-entry in the language-files?

I don’t know. It works for me (I still had v7.9.2 open, so that’s the version I changed).

Set Preferences > General > Localization to English (customizable) – this copies english_customizable.xml to nativeLang.xml
Edit nativeLang.xml, change from
<Item id="43022" name="Using 1st Style"/>
to
<Item id="43022" name="Using 1st Style [CYAN]"/>
and save
Exit Notepad++. Re-run Notepad++
Right-click context menu:
(also used that edited name in Search > Mark All)

It worked for me.

Peter Greistorfer · Mar 22, 2021, 4:20 PM

I see, it works for you, Peter. Strange. Will re-check that issue after having installed the newest npp. But my main problem is successfully solved and that’s great!

Thanks again and have a nice day,

another Peter

Peter Greistorfer · Mar 22, 2021, 4:39 PM

Wait, please, just one question:

If I style, e.g., MyWord with CYAN, then all occurrences of MyWord are coloured CYAN … is there any way to style/colour only a single MyWord, I mean a type of colour formatting (I should add, I set up a python-macro, found in the net, which loads and saves styles. It works fine, but as sketched, not in the “single-mode”).