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pnedev / comparePlus

Compare plugin for Notepad++
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No plugin in menu #213

Closed okainov closed 5 years ago

okainov commented 5 years ago

What I tried:

None of those work, plugin is not appearing the the Plugins menu.

Npp 7.7 32-bit Windows 10

xylographe commented 5 years ago 
\plugins\ComparePlugin\ComparePlugin.dll
\plugins\ComparePlugin\ComparePlugin\git2.dll
\plugins\ComparePlugin\ComparePlugin\sqlite3.dll

The \plugins directory must be located in the directory that contains the file notepad++.exe. Installing plug-ins below %APPDATA%\Notepad++ is not possible in NPP 7.7 and later.

okainov commented 5 years ago

Oh, seems it was important to have the very same name for the folder and DLL. Now it works for me. But these issues are still here:

xylographe commented 5 years ago

ComparePlus is the name of the next generation Compare plug-in, which has not been released yet.

There are more than a few people reporting that installing plug-ins (not limited to Compare) with the new PluginsAdmin doesn't work. I believe this is due to the built-in PluginsAdmin being less robust than the former PluginManager. Also, plug-ins are no longer downloaded from a central server, but directly from a location determined by the plug-in's developer (typically GitHub, SourceForge, etc.).

xylographe commented 5 years ago

BTW if you open the \plugins\Config\nppPluginList.dll file in NPP, and search for "npp-pluginList" you can see the details ("folder-name","repository","version"`, etc.) for each plug-in.

hexxor commented 5 years ago

I had this too with Win 10 and Np++ 7.7.1 (32bit). I fixed it by copying the ComparePlugin.dll also into C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\plugins\ComparePlugin directory. I was using the manually downloaded ComparePlugin_v2.0.0_x86.zip

pnedev commented 5 years ago

Hi,

Sorry for the late reply. @xylographe has answered very well, thanks :+1:

I'll see what I can do about the readme.

BR