Need some help getting started.

[Zigy WasTaken]

Hello there!
I want to make a plugin that reads the lines of a specific file format and then highlights it a specific color based on some checks.
I don’t really like C++ and I was wondering if there is an up to date template for a language like C#/Java/Python
There is a C# template listed in the plugin development section but that is out of date.

[Mark Olson]

@Zigy-WasTaken said in Need some help getting started.:

There is a C# template listed in the plugin development section but that is out of date

If you’re referring to NotepadPlusPlusPluginPack.Net, it’s not “out of date”! It still works fine, and I have multiple plugins based on it that work fine, not to mention several others by other developers. I would use that one.

[rdipardo]

If you’re referring to NotepadPlusPlusPluginPack.Net, it’s not “out of date”!

Maybe @Zigy-WasTaken meant the age of the last stable release (0.94.00), from 2018. Even the 2021 “beta” release is now 40 commits behind the trunk, and there is still an unpatched issue affecting the binary compatibility of the ScNotification structure, whereby the Updated field seems to be getting clobbered by an out-of-bounds write.

All things that capable .NET developers can fix on their own, of course, if they’re not turned off by the “some assembly required” caveat. But what is an absolute beginner supposed to do?