[TOOLS] Notepad++ Auto-completion/Inline Docs/Syntax Highlighting
 

2010-5-26
Updated Notepad++ UserDefinedLang.xml (right click > Save As)


I do a majority of my programming in Visual Studio and I'm starting to write scripts for my server and sought to replicate that environment. With pawn studio no longer being/no longer fully functional, and not enough time to code a language service for Visual Studio I have mimicked the functionality in Notepad++

A picture probably demonstrates this best:
http://content.screencast.com/users/...d/npp_tool.png

Important: There are issues with the latest version of notepad++, this was developed and tested with the 5.1.X version. Later versions have an issue that won't expand functions with long descriptions try SetHudTextParams( to test with your version. I haven't pinpointed the version this starts occurring, input is appreciated.

A few notes:
-Installation instructions are in the readme.txt in the zip
-I have nothing to do with notepad++ itself and the auto-completion functionality isn't super reliable.
-In generating the inline docs I set the word wrap arbitrarily, and I run on a fairly high resolution (1920x1200) if this is an issue for enough people I can make another version.
-If notepad++ crashes there is a good chance the preferences for the auto-completion got reset, just reapply them.
-Feel free to recolor the syntax and redistribute with credit

Thanks to CShadowRun and devicenull

Re: [TOOLS] Notepad++ Auto-completion/Inline Docs/Syntax Highlighting
 

Brilliant!

Re: [TOOLS] Notepad++ Auto-completion/Inline Docs/Syntax Highlighting
 

Would this have hotkeys to build by any chance? Would be nice :). Using Pawn Studio right now but it crashes a lot.

Re: [TOOLS] Notepad++ Auto-completion/Inline Docs/Syntax Highlighting
 

Wow, awesome.

Re: [TOOLS] Notepad++ Auto-completion/Inline Docs/Syntax Highlighting
 

Shouldn't be a problem, if you go to the Run menu you can do a run command like

YourPathHere\spcomp.exe $(FULL_CURRENT_PATH)

Then you can just save it and assign a hotkey. Here is the docs on that: http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/run-HOWTO.php I'm also thinking about making a small program to automate play testing a bit, like compile/check/upload/replace with backup/rcon sm reload or something.

Re: [TOOLS] Notepad++ Auto-completion/Inline Docs/Syntax Highlighting
 

Great job!

Re: [TOOLS] Notepad++ Auto-completion/Inline Docs/Syntax Highlighting
 

Looks really cool :)

Re: [TOOLS] Notepad++ Auto-completion/Inline Docs/Syntax Highlighting
 

Fantastically helpful. Thanks!

This'll definitely lower bandwidth usage from me on the "Script Functions" portion of this site. :)

Re: [TOOLS] Notepad++ Auto-completion/Inline Docs/Syntax Highlighting
 

What a way of perspetive >.<

Re: [TOOLS] Notepad++ Auto-completion/Inline Docs/Syntax Highlighting
 

Thanks

Re: [TOOLS] Notepad++ Auto-completion/Inline Docs/Syntax Highlighting
 

Did you mean Pawn Studio?

Re: [TOOLS] Notepad++ Auto-completion/Inline Docs/Syntax Highlighting
 

Oh good catch, yes that's what I meant =)

Re: [TOOLS] Notepad++ Auto-completion/Inline Docs/Syntax Highlighting
 

Thanks for making this. I occasionally got confused whilst writing complex plugins due to the lack of highlighting :3

Re: [TOOLS] Notepad++ Auto-completion/Inline Docs/Syntax Highlighting
 

Thank you :D this is awesome

Re: [TOOLS] Notepad++ Auto-completion/Inline Docs/Syntax Highlighting
 

Awesome job there, thanks for sharing it! :D

Re: [TOOLS] Notepad++ Auto-completion/Inline Docs/Syntax Highlighting
 

Here's a link to 5.1.4 till this plugin works with 5.4.x

http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...ease_id=653152

Re: [TOOLS] Notepad++ Auto-completion/Inline Docs/Syntax Highlighting
 

AWESOME! This is just... awesome! The one thing I was missing... :) thanks man!

Re: [TOOLS] Notepad++ Auto-completion/Inline Docs/Syntax Highlighting
 

Has any more work been done on this to make it work with newer Notepad++ versions? Notepad++ is the only program I use for all of my coding or scripting so this would be really nice to have.

Re: [TOOLS] Notepad++ Auto-completion/Inline Docs/Syntax Highlighting
 

As far as I can see, the data conforms to the official specification in the wiki. They broke their own spec in one of the later versions. I really have no interest in recoding the Notepad++ modules that do this- but I have a feeling at some time they will release a version that fixes whatever they broke. Make sure you're running it in administrator mode for whatever version you have (if you're on windows 7 or vista)

Re: [TOOLS] Notepad++ Auto-completion/Inline Docs/Syntax Highlighting
 

Cool, this might spare me from having the Sourcemod API in background while coding xD

Re: [TOOLS] Notepad++ Auto-completion/Inline Docs/Syntax Highlighting
 

Really handy, many thanks!

Matt

Re: [TOOLS] Notepad++ Auto-completion/Inline Docs/Syntax Highlighting
 

Great work, awesome job man.

Re: [TOOLS] Notepad++ Auto-completion/Inline Docs/Syntax Highlighting
 

It doesn't?

http://www.abload.de/thumb/itdoesworkud8x.jpg

5.1.4 crashed an awful lot for me, so i wanted to try and fix this for 5.4.5 ... but it works all by itself? xD


EDIT:

I see he updated it this summer, maybe thats why

Re: [TOOLS] Notepad++ Auto-completion/Inline Docs/Syntax Highlighting
 

I was having crashes in 5.4.5 and never narrowed it down to which plugin was causing it. Have you had any issues with 5.4.5 Stryker? Mine would just lock up and then say it crashed.

Re: [TOOLS] Notepad++ Auto-completion/Inline Docs/Syntax Highlighting
 

5.1.4 works but crashes quite often for no reason...

Where do you get 5.4.5? From official one?

Re: [TOOLS] Notepad++ Auto-completion/Inline Docs/Syntax Highlighting
 

I'm not particularly sure why certain implementations of autocomplete work in different versions, I went off of the spec they had on their sourceforge wiki page- I wrote a program to generate it to that spec so it should be 100% compliant, but its clearly abusing the autocomplete functionality as it was never ment to hold paragraphs, just a few words. Still i've written entire plugins in N++ without it crashing or sometimes editing one line will cause it to lock up, and i'm really not experienced with N++ enough to debug their autocomplete system. I've read that Programmers Notepad says they have support for API XML in the same format as N++ but I coudln't find instructions on how to get them working properly. I like Programmers Notepad better as it is so if anyone wants to play around with it and maybe get the autocomplete working on there it might save the N++ crashing problems.

Re: [TOOLS] Notepad++ Auto-completion/Inline Docs/Syntax Highlighting
 

5.4.5 has yet to crash for me a single time, its beautiful. Although Autocomplete kicks in and out ... but if i just wanted that, i'd use the SourcePawn Editor.

N++ coloring is just SOOOO much better.

Re: [TOOLS] Notepad++ Auto-completion/Inline Docs/Syntax Highlighting
 

Yeah, N++ coloring is sexy, i agree :mrgreen:

Re: [TOOLS] Notepad++ Auto-completion/Inline Docs/Syntax Highlighting
 

Yea I <3 np++ coloring
I just wish I knew how to edit this thing to make it turn decl the same color as new

Edit: did it lol
Anything else you want changed/added I can try to do

Re: [TOOLS] Notepad++ Auto-completion/Inline Docs/Syntax Highlighting
 

Yes, add 'String' to have the same color as 'Float'. Ah nevermind did it myself.

Oh and change 'stock' to have the same color as Action ... i also changed bool to it

A little advice: When you want to share something like this, don't do it in some obscure 7zip format only 7zip can open.

Re: [TOOLS] Notepad++ Auto-completion/Inline Docs/Syntax Highlighting
 

Uhm... its just zip.
I use 7zip for all my compression so...

Edit: Added that stuff

Changelog so far:

Added decl to the syntax highlighting, colored like new
String is colored like Float
stock & bool are colored like Action

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Compressed with deflate (default) this time instead of lzma

Re: [TOOLS] Notepad++ Auto-completion/Inline Docs/Syntax Highlighting
 

Any more requests feel free to post

Re: [TOOLS] Notepad++ Auto-completion/Inline Docs/Syntax Highlighting
 

Nice +carma to you :)

Re: [TOOLS] Notepad++ Auto-completion/Inline Docs/Syntax Highlighting
 

I've also added 'any' to have the same Color as 'Handle'

Re: [TOOLS] Notepad++ Auto-completion/Inline Docs/Syntax Highlighting
 

What are your thoughts on making all functions a color (to tell them apart from 1) custom functions and 2) normal stuff like string/etc names)

Re: [TOOLS] Notepad++ Auto-completion/Inline Docs/Syntax Highlighting
 

What color to use then? You mean color-code SourceMode stock functions, so we can easily differ them from custom ones?

Re: [TOOLS] Notepad++ Auto-completion/Inline Docs/Syntax Highlighting
 

Thanks for this, Personaly I changed "Number"'s to be orange.

And many programs can open 7zip, but anyways.

I tried to look into the auto completion problem but could see nothing to fix it really, unless you just shorten them all or, try to file a bug report or something with Notepad++

But if you don't mind Losing all Descriptions, just so you can still have the Parameters on all functions just open sourcemod.xml and find all descr=" and replace them with desc=" This way Parameters still complete.

Re: [TOOLS] Notepad++ Auto-completion/Inline Docs/Syntax Highlighting
 

Yes thats what I mean. I'm going to see if a shade of orange works

Re: [TOOLS] Notepad++ Auto-completion/Inline Docs/Syntax Highlighting
 

Huzzah huge update:

bool, Float, String, and any are now colored like Action & Handle
All base sourcemod functions are now colored
Curlybraces are larger
Numbers are colored
event, client, Client, timer, data, and decl are colored like new, switch, if, etc.
Renamed custom language from sourcemod to SourcePawn.

Re: [TOOLS] Notepad++ Auto-completion/Inline Docs/Syntax Highlighting
 

Seems to work fine, thanks for the update.