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oleg-shilo / cs-script.npp

CS-Script (C# Intellisense) plugin for Notepad++ (x86/x64)
MIT License
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How to Close a specific Tab(file) #62

Closed pnjsinc closed 7 months ago

pnjsinc commented 2 years ago

Greetings Oleg:

Love the project, I am using this to run a specialized compiler. l am looking for a way to close a specific file or tab that is open.

Can you share with me how to accomplish this?

Regards, Pat

oleg-shilo commented 2 years ago

Ho @pnjsinc,

I am not sure I follow your question.

Are you asking how to close Notepad++ tab from the script you are running?

pnjsinc commented 2 years ago

Greetings Oleg:

That is correct. After the compiler runs, it creates a file that shows the code as it was compiled, minus the comments and compile directives. This file is then opened by the compiler in npp. I am wanting to close this file before the code compiles again when needing to make additional changes.

Thank you so much for the awesome tool.

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Ho @pnjsinc https://github.com/pnjsinc,

I am not sure I follow your question.

Are you asking how to close Notepad++ tab from the script you are running?

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oleg-shilo commented 2 years ago

Then I am afraid it's not a simple task.

You see the script that you run is executed as a separate process. Thus you have very limited ability to control Notepad++. And yet it is possible.

This is the pseudocode:

codefile = StripCommentsFrom(scriptFile)
nppWindowHandle = OpenInNpp(codefile)
nppTabIndex = SendMessage(nppWindowHandle, find_tab_with_file, codefile)
SendMessage(nppWindowHandle, close_tab, nppTabIndex)

This is not a trivial task and it will require understanding the Scintilla API (a very old fashioned message-based interface).

pnjsinc commented 2 years ago

Thanks for the response, I was afraid that was going to be the case. Thanks again for the great product.

Pat