TagsView is back! :)

Vitalii Dovgan

Oh boy! The most complicated part of the “Go to tag” is not dealing with the tags themselves - no, the most complicated part is related to a popup list with the tags similar to the one shown by Sublime Text or VS Code!

First, this list should be a popup one; next, it should support multi-line items (e.g. the first line is the function/variable itself and the second line is the context); next, it should be possible to apply colors of the editor for the selected item plus the colors other items.
So far I’ve been experimenting with a custom-draw ListBox (with the LBS_OWNERDRAWFIXED style), which gives the full responsibility of drawing of each item. I’ve been spending a lot of time to understand what and how needs to be done there, and it is still far from completion.

If someone has experience with LBS_OWNERDRAWFIXED or LBS_OWNERDRAWVARIABLE ListBox, please let me know!
I’d be happy to re-use some existing code rather than doing it all from scratch!

Michael Vincent

@Vitalii-Dovgan

I’m a crap coder, but was able to modify TagLEET pop-up box to do some nice stuff:

Instead of just the list of tags and context (which I added a bit from the original TagLEET, I added that bottom “peek” window which updates as you scroll the tags in the upper half. It’s only a RichEdit control - I would have loved to make it a Scintilla edit component and lex the text in there as well, but alas, I’m a crap coder!

https://github.com/vinsworldcom/nppTagLEET

Cheers.

pnedev

Guys,

It seems like TagsView doesn’t work on Notepad++ v8.4.4. On Notepad start it claims the plugin needs to be disabled.
Do you experience the same?

Michael Vincent

@pnedev said in TagsView is back! :):

Guys,
It seems like TagsView doesn’t work on Notepad++ v8.4.4. On Notepad start it claims the plugin needs to be disabled.
Do you experience the same?

No. It’s working fine for me. You have @Vitalii-Dovgan latest version?

Cheers.

pnedev

@Michael-Vincent ,

I’m using TagsView v0.5 beta 64-bit version with:

Notepad++ v8.4.4   (64-bit)
Build time : Jul 15 2022 - 17:54:42
Path : C:\Program Files\Notepad++\notepad++.exe
Command Line : 
Admin mode : ON
Local Conf mode : OFF
Cloud Config : OFF
OS Name : Microsoft Windows 10 (64-bit) 
OS Build : 17134.0
Current ANSI codepage : 1252
WINE : 5.0
Plugins : 
    ComparePlus (1)
    NppEditorConfig (0.4)
    NppGTags (5)
    QuickText (0.2.4.1)
    SessionMgr (1.4.4)
    TagsView (0.5)
    XMLTools (3.1.1.13)
    _CustomizeToolbar (5.3)

On Notepad++ start I get a message “Access violation”.
Maybe it is because of Wine / Linux, I don’t know.

I will try it on native Win10, thanks.

BR

xomx

@pnedev

On Notepad++ start I get a message “Access violation”.

N++ versions 8.4.3+ have serious problem with WINE.