Buttons with relative paths

[thinkJD]

Hi,
first i love this plugin, thanks for the great work!

I have a problem assigning the toolbar icons for scripts.
I replaced the absolute paths in "PythonScriptStartup.cnf" to relative ones to keep the notepad++ installation portable.
Then it comes to a strage behavior. I can click the icon only one time. A new start of the script is then only over the menu or after a restart possible.

[bruderstein]

That's certainly a bit weird. I've had a play around, and can reproduce this if the script changes the current directory (i.e. does a os.chdir() call). The issue here is the path is relative, but relative to what. The plugin is pretty stupid and just tries to open the file, which means either absolute, or relative to the "current directory". I could "repair" the status, by doing an os.chdir('c:\program files (x86)\notepad++') again.

I think it would be good if the plugin "noticed" that the script was in one of the known directories (i.e. user or system script directories), and replaced this with a prefix (e.g. $USERSCRIPTS$, or $SYSTEMSCRIPTS$), then we could define a few more variables, like $NPPPATH$, $PLUGINDIR$, and $PLUGINCONFIGDIR$, then you can create your own structure how you like for portable installs.

It'd be great if you could confirm there's a change of directory in your script, and if you've any other solutions.

[thinkJD]

Hi,
thanks or the fast response.
Yes, i change the working dir several times. Now i recover the working directory like this:

old_dir = os.getcwd()
os.chdir(new_dir)
... do some stuff
os.chdir(old_dir)

And it works fine. Thanks!

I dont have an other solution. I played with the Customize Toolbar Plugin but without success.

[MaDill]

Hi,

it would be good when the path in the configuration is stored relative to the plugin directory. Then notepad++ could be used really portable. At the moment the only chance is to manually edit the configuration file.

This should apply also for the menu stuff. I want to add some shortcuts to my scripts and this is only possible when add them to the menu.

In the LUA Script plugin there is a AddShortcut function. Together with the GetPluginsConfigDir function I could use this to register the shortcuts. This works portable. Maybe this can be added to Python Script also. Then I can call this in the startup.py

I use version 1.0.8 of the plugin.

wip
Currently I have something in mind like this

ITEM/RunCurrentScript.py
ITEM/AnotherMultiEdit.py
ITEM/RegexTesterProx64.py
ITEM/Versatile.py
ITEM/demos\RegexLexer.py
ITEM/demos\HideLines.py
ITEM/aaa\bbb\test.py
ITEM/Überraschung\ÜberÄÖß.py
TOOLBAR/DownloadGists.py/D:\Images\Icons\MyIconSet\Download_16x16.bmp
TOOLBAR/UploadGists.py/icons\Upload_16x16.bmp
TOOLBAR/debugger\my_debugger.py/
SETTING/ADDEXTRALINETOOUTPUT/1
SETTING/COLORIZEOUTPUT/1234567
SETTING/OPENCONSOLEONERROR/1
SETTING/PREFERINSTALLEDPYTHON/0
SETTING/STARTUP/ATSTARTUP

So menu item and toolbar item scripts are relative to userScriptsDir but toolbar icon path needs
to be treaten different as it might be that the image is somewhere else. So logic for icon path would be,
for saving config, if icon path does start with userScriptsDir then it will be shorten otherwise full icon path will be saved and for reading config if icon path is an existing file no userScriptsDir will be added in front of the path otherwise it will.

Something i forgot?