Is it possible to make a DLL plugin for the programming editor called EditPlus?
I wish to extend the editor like in EditPlug text editor or Notepad++ where you create a DLL which allows you to talk to the editor. Or another example is Total Commander where you create a DLL to talk to the program from your own code in delphi or visual c++, or any program that can create a windows DLL.
Or is there NO way to make a plugin in Editplus because they have not implemented a plugin system?
I do not see any kind of plugin architecture mentioned in EditPlus's feature list. If it does not expose a plugin API, then you cannot write a plugin for it. All you can do is create a DLL that is injected into EditPlus's address space by an external process and then uses OS API calls to directly manipulate EditPlus's UI and raw memory as needed.
EditPlus does not have a plugin system, so you cannot extend in any way.
EditPlus has no plugin system!
In EditPlus, You can only use Text Filter to do something like plugins do.
Text Filter can execute script file or executable file.
You can use perl, java, python, vbscript, javascript or command line application which support standard input and standard output to write and run as a text filter.
Text Filter only can change the text content in the editor area.
I'll be very glad if a real plugin system come with EditPlus.
See also:
Writing a text filter for EditPlus
Some Text Filters for EditPlus
yes it is possible. it's hard (..not so very hard..but still)
i explain in here the possibility to extend Editplus with php
https://stackoverflow.com/a/61254718/5781320
i see this cause i lookin' for other simplest methods than mine.(just by curiosity and fun) .. i wrote the fastest php framework in the world and I will glad to make it "talk" with editplus
There is possible to compile servers in PUREBASIC.com to interact with applications Android in b4a=open source now (b4x.com) that suppose to interact with google speech recognition so yes is possible to talk from your phone to the server dll or exe to interact with editplus,total commander,and many other stuff.
I did it myself cause i was curious if had delay.
EditPlus hasn't the direct possibility , Notepad++ does and on https://www.purebasic.fr/english/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=65680&hilit=notepad+plugin with the same purebasic i use on that notepad++ version work that pugin can be modiffied how you like to be .On actual version of notepad++ i tryed myself doesn't work : the plugin is obsolete and is rejected so witch method you choose is hard to implement the system you need int this dynamic expansion of open source / or developing.
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I am trying to create a plugin in Maya API that will basically have a menu inside of Maya and I will be able to load in a different character head depending on which button was pressed.
This is my first time with the Maya API so I am quite unfamiliar.
Any ideas on how to import models like this using the API?
Thanks so much!
Tyler
I recommend using MEL as a start, instead of the Maya API.
MEL Commands you should look at are file to import files into your scene (e.g. heads), and probably all UI related commands to create a simple window.
As Byron mentioned, MEL or Python scripting would be a (dramatically) simpler solution than using the API. There is one key difference between what you will be able to accomplish using the API compared to a script:
Using the OpenMayaUI modules, you can insert your "head selection UI" directly into the existing menus in Maya.
Using a script, you are restricted to a floating ui window that can be docked in certain places in Maya's UI (This is not technically true, however it is far easier to utilize scripts in this manner rather than trying to force your script into the UI). Furthermore, creating a button for the script to be launched in Maya requires users of the script to take an extra step. It cannot be "installed" into Maya for them (Again, not technically true, but most users prefer shelf buttons as opposed to menus in the UI). See Autodesk Documentation: Creating a shelf button for a script for more information on that.
I see no reason that a script will not suffice for a simple head swap action, but if you wish to use this as an exercise in learning the API then I can give you a few pointers:
First of all, all non-API Maya commands can be accessed in both a script and using the API for a plugin. Since this "Plugin" does not require any API modules other than those needed for adding the Plugin directly to the UI, you can mockup the entire functionality using a script.
In other words, you can use "import maya.cmds as cmds" in both a script and a plugin, and the actual functionality you desire is available entirely using that module. Therefore, I would advise you make a script that performs the actions you want first, then work on converting that script into a plugin. Creating a command plugin that achieves this result should be fairly simple once you already have a script that works. Then, all you need to do is use the UI API modules to add your menu to the existing Maya UI.
Once your script is complete, here is a link to Autodesk's tutorial on creating a command plugin: Autodesk Python API Documentation
And this cgsociety discussion contains a lot of useful tips of getting your UI inside of Maya's (the discussion is about c++, but the same concepts apply to python plugins): C++ Add Menu to Maya's Main Menu Bar
I've taken to assuming this will all be done using Python, since scripts and plugins can both be programmed in that language. It's also what I use- I've never delved into the c++ API. Anyways, I hope this helps! Good luck :)
I need to process a number of messages in my Thunderbird.app (Mac OS X Snow Leopard, Intel Core 2 Duo), delete a few based on some criteria, export some others, move a small part of them to a special folder and create a filing hierarchy to go with it all - programmatically.
With Outlook I used to enjoy VBScript + the COM object model: it would do all of the above simply and intuitively.
What can I use to achieve the same with Thunderbird?
If multiple options are available, here are my current preferences in terms of languages (although I can adapt to most things): Python, C++, AppleScript, PHP, Perl, Bash, ...
If I need to move to a Windows box to use .NET and the like, I can (yet I'd imaging the most popular bindings come from the open-source world?!) If there was a command-line tool that did what I need, I'd use that! (thunderbird.sh show messages; thunderbird.sh create folder X as child of folder Y;)
You can develop Thunderbird extensions in a similar way to Firefox extensions in XUL and Javascript.
Try this tutorial.
This tutorial will introduce you to the components of a Thunderbird extension and will show you how to build your own.
You could also look at the tbscript plugin, although it does have external dependencies - it uses Python.
The tutorial linked to in the most popular answer as of today still works, but is outdated.
For current versions of Thunderbird, documentation is at https://developer.thunderbird.net. This has an add-on page that comes with a tutorial for developing a "Hello World" MailExtension.
The MailExtension API is new for Thunderbird 68 (although some parts were published for earlier versions) and allows one to write JavaScript to e.g. handle messages.
If you need a general purpose GUI scripting solution, try Autohotkey, it's very calable.
It's been more than an year that i'm developing a new scripting language with its own grammar rules and constructs.
I'd like to give the users of this language some minimalistic ide to work with, but i don't want/have time to make one from scratch so i'd like to take one already existing (it has to run on Linux platforms natively, so no windows-only editors plz) and customize it.
Well, which one is the easiest to customize without changing the source code and recompiling it, maybe even with plugin support?
Thank you.
UPDATE
I don't need to know which editor is the best for you, i need to know which one is the easiest to customize AND, most of it, which one has the most complete documentation about new language customization.
Ex: SciTE is good, but its documentation about custom grammars is really poor.
Have you looked into Scintilla/SciTE? I think it gets used often for this sort of thing. It's very lightweight, but from what I understand, is easy to add functionality to. It's not really an IDE, but it's more of a text-editor component that you could use as the basis for a simple IDE. I've used SciTE, which is a sort of demo text editor of Scintilla's capabilities. It's simple, but also quite fast and responsive.
I suppose another option would be to write plugins for existing IDEs such as Eclipse or Netbeans. Both of these IDEs support many languages just through 3rd-party plugins. Going this route means you don't need to build a complete UI, just the components needed to make your language work.
The downside of building plugins for an extendable IDE (such as NetBeans or Eclipse) is that you are at the mercy of the IDE developers. If they change the way the platform works, you must ensure that your plugins still work with the new versions. Sometimes this can become a major problem.
All of these options should work on Linux as well as Windows.
This sounds like a very ambitious project and I wish you luck.
I don't use linux too often, I use a Mac and my favorite text editor is called TextMate because it has snippets, code completion, and a whole mess of other features. The closest thing to it that I've found on linux is called Scribes.
There's always Emacs or Vim (I lean towards Vim, but that's just my opinion :) ). Neither are IDEs per se, but both are very extensible and it shouldn't be too hard to create settings for each that will aid people writing scripts in your language.
Earlier I asked a question about command-line parameters to automate processing of a file in InfoPath. I'll probably get the Tumbleweed badge for that one.
Instead of attempting a batch solution through the command line, can someone suggest a good resource for developing a solution that will open an application and then perform actions through the application's user interface like opening a file, printing it, and closing the file?
I've seen a legacy application do this in the past where it would open Attachmate and perform I/O operations through Attachmate's interface - but I never saw the code.
One constraint is that the process will be initiated from an existing .NET solution (i.e. processing 10,000 files). I am also unable to rely on traditional Office macros like those found in Excel - InfoPath does not appear to support them.
One option for automating a GUI based application is to use AutoIT. It will allow you to script the actions that are necessary for clicking menu interfaces, working with dialogs, etc.
Depending on your needs, you can create an AutoIT script on your dev machine, compile it to a standard EXE, and deploy it with the .NET project's compiled artifacts. To pass data to it, either you have your AutoIT script take command line parameters, or you have the .NET solution write a to a file with all the input file parameters and have the AutoIT script read in the file to process it. Based on the number you have in the question, I'd go with the option of writing to a file.
Since you are already on .NET you might want to give the new UI Automation framework a try. I haven't tried it yet, but it is supposed to work with WPF and native Win32 applications.
MSDN also has some samples: UI Automation Control Pattern Samples
Attachmate has a scripting language, an API and all kinds of other stuff to help with automating it. So this may not have been a typical application.
On the other hand, Attachmate products are (IMO) horrible to the extreme and I will go to great lengths to avoid working with them in the first place.
I'm tired of Dreamweaver overwriting wrong files on the server,
so I'm looking for an alternative.
I want color-coding and possibility to open/save and edit files direct from the server, so I don't need to save files on my desktop first.
I'm using Windows.
Every web developer should be hand-writing their mark-up - all forms of automated abstraction inhibit your understanding and awareness of the code and create maintenance problems for the future. I'm quite a zealot about this, you may be able to tell.
On that basis, I can heartily recommend Editplus: has code colouring, FTP and a huge amount of feature-sugar from line duplication to macros.
Notepad++ extended with some plugins is a really handy replacement. Though I can't call it IDE, it does virtually everything a developer need. In my case (a lot of repetitive code) Texter (a small app working in background) makes notepadd++ even more handy. So, my suggestion is: Notepad++ and Texter.
I switched to notepad++ when I had the same kind of problems with DreamWeaver. I tried some other programs too, but they were too complicated for my needs.
If all you need is color-coding and ftp-support, notepad++ is a good choice.
Visual Web Developer Express, which is the lightweight version of Visual Studio.
http://www.microsoft.com/express/
If you're using a Mac you should take a look at Coda
Well personally I use Programmer's Notepad but it doesn't support the facility to upload files to the server. You could get Notepad++ and this FTP plugin. I haven't tried Notepad++ but I'm sure that it isn't WYSIWYG.
Perhaps KompoZer? It has all the features you've asked for, and there's a Windows version (as well as Mac and Linux).
Dreamweaver... Not my cup of tea, because it lacks good support for modern web programming with Javascript or PHP.
For primary design, I use WeBuilder from Blumentals. Its also a good and not expensive PHP and Javascript IDE with debugging support and also has good CSS support with a built-in CSS editor.
I'm not a big fan of text editors like Notepad++ as an IDE replacement, because you often need a lot of additional plug-ins to have similar features like a IDE. But for some files or quick editing nothing can beat such editors (I like Notepad++ the most on Windows).
So for Windows I would prefer WeBuilder for all things (design & programming).
You use only Windows? For Linux there are other alternatives too ;)
When I searched an alternative for the Dreamweaver for PHP, I found some IDEs and one among them is Netbeans. Soon it became my favorite for my object oriented coding.
Here is the download page.
This has support for Zend and Symphony frameworks.
They also support File uploading.
When developping in PHP, I generally use Eclipse PDT.
If you are more oriented towards HTML/CSS/Javascript, you might be interested by Aptana, which is based on Eclipse too... Which means it can use lots of plugins, including some to work directly on a server, I suppose (see TM/RSE, for instance).
Note than Aptana can also be installed into an existing Eclipse installation, as a plugin.
Oh, also, I almost forgot : Eclipse is free, and there are both a free and a commercial version of Aptana.
(One bad thing about Eclipse being it requires a quite powerful computer -- at least 2 cores and 2 GB of RAM, if you want to use any other application at the same time...)
E Text Editor, a Textmate clone for Windows, claims to have FTP Support. But i haven't used this feature before.
I want color-coding and possibility to open/save and edit files direct from the server, so I don't need to save files on my desktop first.
The Zeus editor can highlight and fold HTML files, it integrates with HTML Tidy and can seamless edit files from the server via ftp/sftp.
It also has support for a host of other languages (i.e C/C++, C#, Java, Javascript, PHP, etc etc)