Programmer's Notepad 2.1.2 Released

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Programmer's Notepad 2.1.2 Released

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Started 1 year ago by simon
Latest reply from Abscissa

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simon
PN Developer
A new testing release, version 2.1.2 of Programmer's Notepad has been released to Google Code. The major new feature in this release is Code Template Fields, but there have been a lot of other changes too:
- Code Template Fields
- Cleaner visual style for the document tabs
- Added line padding options, allows more whitespace between lines
- Switch to Scintilla's built-in line length measurement
- Removed some 3D styling bits to clean up the look of the editor, more to do.
- New tab text changed from <new> to Untitled
- -z parameter now assumes a single file after the -z, designed for notepad replacement.
- Updated to latest Scintilla bits for some multi-caret fixes
- Fixed a couple of regular expression issues.
- Fix tools options tab titles.
- Made SmartHighlight more visible, less alpha blending
Screenshot: http://untidy.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/PN212.png

In case you haven't used a 2.1 build yet, here are the other headline features in the testing builds:
1. Full Unicode Support
2. Support for Translations - PN in your language
3. Prototype Command Bar feature (with PyPN)
4. Multiple simultaneous selections, including typing into block selections
5. Virtual space
Downloads:

Download 2.1.2 Installer
Download 2.1.2 Multi-language Installer
Download 2.1.2 Portable
Posted 1 year ago #
NickDMax
Member

Can't seem to get pypn to work with this. I tried to update the files and run "pn.exe --findexts" but that didn't work. Is there a new version of pypn for 2.1x ?

Posted 1 year ago #

NickDMax
Member

ok got the right version of pypn installed. When I start I get the following output:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 41, in <module>
  File "<string>", line 37, in import_libs
ArgumentError: Python argument types in
    pn.AddOutput(unicode)
did not match C++ signature:
    AddOutput(char const *)

is this expected?

Posted 1 year ago #

simon
PN Developer

Hi Nick,

I've just tried a clean install of 2.1.2 with the 0.11 PyPN and it seems to start ok, so I'm guessing it's something with the scripts you have - and possibly poor handling of this in init.py. Could you try adding your scripts one-by-one to see if this helps?

Thanks.

Posted 1 year ago #
NickDMax
Member

indeed the message is caused by the pnxml script (which has never worked for me). I think the problem with this is on the python side as I used to get and error about not being able to find a .dll file.

Posted 1 year ago #
simon
PN Developer

Ah, the DLL issue was a bug with a couple of versions of Python 2.6 which was fixed with later releases (if I remember rightly). You could try upgrading Python and see if that fixes it?

However, that issue with loading pnxml shouldn't be causing the error you saw, so I'll look into that.

Posted 1 year ago #
castorp
Member

The homepage still shows 2.0.10.1010 as the current release ...

Posted 1 year ago #
NickDMax
Member

2.0.10.1010 is the current release...

Generally one does not "Release" a development/testing build until after development and testing have been completed.

2.1.2 is a testing version available to those brave insiders who are ready and willing to take the murky plunge into unsure waters. If you want a stable release stick with 2.0.10.1010.

Posted 1 year ago #
simon
PN Developer

What Nick said, except I should really update the Testing release link to point to 2.1 :)

Posted 1 year ago #
poached
Member

I can't really figure out how to activate command bar mode. I tried this on one machine with the previous PN installed and when I go to tools, I see that command bar is greyed. I installed PN on another machine with no previous PN installation and I see Command Bar under tools menu. But when I click it, nothing happens. Is there suppose to be another installation for PyPN or something? I look at the google code repository and I don't see a PyPN download for PN 2.1.2 (only 2.1.1). Also, this is not documented well and I'd appreciate more documentation on installing this.

Posted 1 year ago #
simon
PN Developer

@poached: Sorry about that, it's a prototype feature so some of the documentation and integration are not as good as they could be.

You'll need to get the PyPN download for 2.1.1 which works fine with 2.1.2 - I've updated the download link to indicate that better.

More PyPN install instructions: http://pnotepad.org/docs/howto/install_pypn

Once you have PyPN installed you should get the command bar working.

Posted 1 year ago #
ingenuus
Member
Here's a few notes for newbies like me on trying this testing release version 2.1.2. I extracted these into a directory I'll call PN:

http://pnotepad.googlecode.com/files/portable-pn2122096.zip
http://pnotepad.googlecode.com/files/pypn-0.11.1117-py26.zip

Then execute:
```
pn.exe --findexts
```
which apparently just inserts a line for each extension like this:
```
<extension path="pypn.dll"></extension>
```
into PN's config.xml. There are multiple config.xml. I'm not sure if they are all read and combined or just one is read, but config.xml can be in any or all of these locations:
```
PN\config.xml
PN\settings\config.xml
%USERPROFILE%\Application Data\Echo Software\PN2\config.xml
```
In the portable version, "PN\config.xml" redirects config settings to the "PN\settings" directory (instead of the one in %USERPROFILE%) and uses "settings\UserSettings.ini" (instead of the windows registry).

While there is a menu item to activate the Command Bar "Tools -> Command Mode Alt+X", it does not work until you add a key to PN's "Interface Settings" section (I found this tidbit in "PN\pypn\commands.py").

In the windows registry:
```
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Echo Software\PN\Interface Settings]
Commandbar = 1
```
- OR - for the portable version:

In "PN\settings\UserSettings.ini":
```
[Interface Settings]
Commandbar=1
```
A couple random bugs / points of confusion:

- Tools -> Options -> Extensions: PyPN shows up as 0.10 even though I extracted it from pypn-0.11.1117-py26.zip

- On pnotepad.org, the "Download Free" button links to the (older) stable version, while right below it is the News heading "Programmer’s Notepad 2.1.2 Released" referring to the testing version. It's easy to think that the download is that new release with those new features. Ideally, the button would include the word "STABLE", while the news heading would include the word "TESTING" (in caps or bold) to make it clear that these are different.

Kevin
Posted 1 year ago #
Abscissa
Member

The link on the News page for "Download 2.1.2 Portable" is broken.

Also, in the News page announcement for this, it says "New tab text changed from to Untitled". That should probably be "New tab text changed from <new> to Untitled". I think you (or some software) may have forgotten to escape the greater-than/less-than symbols.

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