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    • Michael BrockM
      Michael Brock @PeterJones
      last edited by

      @peterjones Thanks! That might be what has changed. I’ll have to try to remember why and how I was getting the numbers themselves to show as markers (I have similar scripts for 1 through 9).

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      • Alan KilbornA
        Alan Kilborn @Michael Brock
        last edited by

        @michael-brock said in PythonScript, editor.markerAdd has stopped working:

        remember why and how I was getting the numbers themselves to show as markers (I have similar scripts for 1 through 9).

        Could it be you were using a extra plugin that shows the numbers themselves?

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        • Michael BrockM
          Michael Brock @Alan Kilborn
          last edited by

          Thanks for the responses. They jogged my memory. I have a python startup script which is run when Notepad++ starts. It sets the markers to the text 1-9. The upgrade to 8.3.3 overwrote that script. I reverted to a back up copy and it is back to working.

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          • PeterJonesP
            PeterJones @Michael Brock
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            @michael-brock said in PythonScript, editor.markerAdd has stopped working:

            It sets the markers to the text 1-9.

            Cool. Could you share that portion of your startup script? I’ve usually only seen markers be one of the 32 predefined symbols, so seeing how you did that might be a learning experience for me or others.

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            • PeterJonesP
              PeterJones @Michael Brock
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              @michael-brock said in PythonScript, editor.markerAdd has stopped working:

              The upgrade to 8.3.3 overwrote that script.

              I find that difficult to believe.

              I think what happened is that you were using the machine startup.py (c:\Program Files\Notepad++\Plugins\PythonScript\Scripts is the normal machine-script folder) instead of the user startup.py (%AppData%\Notepad++\Plugins\Config\PythonScript\Scripts for a normal installation or <portable-npp-folder...>\Plugins\Config\PythonScript\Scripts for a portable) … Thus, when you installed PythonScript 2.0.0, it overwrite the machine startup.py; the plugin expects that it can overwrite that file, because users are expected to use the user startup.py for their own customization (though the docs don’t emphasize that enough, IMO; we in the forum do actively encourage PythonScript users to customize in the user startup, not the machine startup).

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              • Michael BrockM
                Michael Brock @PeterJones
                last edited by

                More specifically then: I upgraded Notepad++, that uninstalled Pyton Script. I reinstalled Python Script and in the process the startup.py script I was using was overwritten.

                This is the snippet of code:

                # sets margins and markers for bookmarks
                editor.setMarginWidthN(4, 10)
                editor.setMarginTypeN(4, MARGINTYPE.TEXT)
                
                for x in range(1,9):
                    marginMask = 1 << x
                    editor.setMarginMaskN(4, 510 )
                    editor.markerDefine(x, 10048 + x) # use a colored symbol (possible symbols are CIRCLE, ROUNDRECT, ARROW, SMALLRECT, SHORTARROW, .
                    editor.markerSetFore(x, (0,0,0)) # contour of symbol 
                    editor.markerSetBack(x, (255,255,0)) # filling
                
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                • Alan KilbornA
                  Alan Kilborn @Michael Brock
                  last edited by

                  @michael-brock said in PythonScript, editor.markerAdd has stopped working:

                  editor.markerDefine(x, 10048 + x)

                  When I try something like this, with e.g. x = 2, I only get a half-width bookmark, looking like this:

                  d6999263-acf1-4f97-b670-cd72c0e8046d-image.png

                  Unless… I zoom way up in which case it looks better:

                  e9f7a795-5f31-420a-9e5e-c1c0cd3e6151-image.png

                  But that isn’t a realistic working environment for me. :-)

                  If I try other types of boomarks (as well as the default blue/purple ball symbol), they all look fine at my preferred zoom level, here’s the “bookmark” one:

                  666e736f-f687-4dd3-b40e-3bf6114db68d-image.png

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                  • Michael BrockM
                    Michael Brock @Alan Kilborn
                    last edited by

                    I had not noticed previously that zooming would affect the bookmarks. My default zoom is large enough for me not to have noticed.

                    SharedScreenshot.jpg

                    Interestingly, Window’s Ink Workspace screen shot removes the color from the left margin and really makes the font unreadable.

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                    • Michael BrockM
                      Michael Brock @Michael Brock
                      last edited by

                      Better screenshot:

                      SharedScreenshot.jpg

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                      • PeterJonesP
                        PeterJones @Michael Brock
                        last edited by

                        @Alan-Kilborn ,

                        from Npp import *
                        
                        # sets margins and markers for bookmarks
                        editor.setMarginWidthN(4, 10)
                        editor.setMarginTypeN(4, MARGINTYPE.TEXT)
                        
                        # this will make margin#4 allow markers 1-10
                        editor.setMarginMaskN(4, 0x03FF )
                        for x in range(1,9+1):
                            editor.markerDefine(x, 10048 + x) # use a colored symbol (possible symbols are CIRCLE, ROUNDRECT, ARROW, SMALLRECT, SHORTARROW, .
                            editor.markerSetFore(x, (0,0,0)) # contour of symbol
                            editor.markerSetBack(x, (255,255,0)) # filling
                        
                        for i in range(1,9+1):
                            editor.markerAdd(5+i,i)
                        
                        editor.setMarginMaskN(1, editor.getMarginMaskN(1) | 0x3FF ) # set those bits
                        
                        from time import sleep
                        sleep(10) # five seconds later
                        editor.setMarginMaskN(1, editor.getMarginMaskN(1) & ~0x3FF ) # clear those bits
                        

                        3d440d16-5131-4c46-85aa-9ec66ec6d605-image.png

                        It appears that if you are putting the character style in margin 1, where the bookmark round icon goes, the characters are strangely placed. I think it might have to do with the editor.setMarginTypeN(1, ...) that is implicit in Notepad++ default condition. Because the margin=1 column cuts off the characters, but margin=4 column does not.

                        I added

                        for i in range(0,4+1):
                            t = editor.getMarginTypeN(i)
                            console.write("margin type #{} = {} {}\n".format(i, t, MARGINTYPE.values[t]))
                        

                        to see the types for each of the 5 margins:

                        margin type #0 = 1 NUMBER
                        margin type #1 = 6 COLOUR
                        margin type #2 = 0 SYMBOL
                        margin type #3 = 0 SYMBOL
                        margin type #4 = 4 TEXT
                        

                        but even if I add editor.setMarginTypeN(1,4) near the beginning, the margin=1 column still cuts off half of the character.

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                        • Alan KilbornA
                          Alan Kilborn
                          last edited by Alan Kilborn

                          So there are some nuances here that I haven’t thought about before, or at least not in a long time, so I will expend some more time thinking about it…

                          But aside from the visual implications of seeing a different number symbol for the bookmarks, is there other value in doing this – what the OP has done? I don’t think so, unless there are other commands created which use the numbers to do something.

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                          • Michael BrockM
                            Michael Brock @Alan Kilborn
                            last edited by

                            @alan-kilborn said in PythonScript, editor.markerAdd has stopped working:

                            So there are some nuances here that I haven’t thought about before, or at least not in a long time, so I will expend some more time thinking about it…

                            But aside from the visual implications of seeing a different number symbol for the bookmarks, is there other value in doing this – what the OP has done? I don’t think so, unless there are other commands created which use the numbers to do something.

                            This is part of a bookmarking “scheme”. I can set a marker/bookmark w/ the number marker in the column with alt-1,alt-2, etc. The snippet of code above sets the bookmark. What isn’t shown is the portion that saves the marker handle (as a string) to a file named after the bookmark # and the file name (so a separate file for each bookmark for each file).

                            I have a separate set of scripts which are keyed to ctrl-1, ctrl-2, etc. These look for a file named as above and reads the marker from the file and uses

                            gotoLine=editor.markerLineFromHandle(int(gotoMarker))
                            editor.gotoLine(int(gotoLine))
                            

                            to jump to the line.

                            It works very well. So I have a set of 9 bookmarks that I can set and jump between. In my programming I will set particular code blocks to always have the same bookmark and it makes jumping between them very easy.

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                            • Alan KilbornA
                              Alan Kilborn @Michael Brock
                              last edited by

                              @michael-brock said in PythonScript, editor.markerAdd has stopped working:

                              It works very well.

                              Ah, okay. It’s always nice to have the “rest of the story” on something that starts out as a tech support question and then takes on a life of its own through discussions. :-)

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                              • Alan KilbornA
                                Alan Kilborn
                                last edited by

                                The marker ID used for bookmarks changed in Notepad++ 8.4.6 (and later). It is now 20, instead of 24. So, all references to 24 in this thread and/or its script(s), should be changed to 20.

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