nmlgc / fileswitcher

An import (and slightly cleaned up) copy of the Notepad++ FileSwitcher SVN repository

This is the FileSwitcher plugin, allowing you to quickly switch files in Notepad++.

Type any part of the filename, and the list of options shows filenames containing that text. Options to only use the start of the filename, case sensitivity and to include the path of the file rather than just the filename are available in the Options dialog.

How to build

Visual Studio 2012 or later is required, and will compile the code without requiring any further dependencies. You will need to customize a few build properties before compiling, though. To do this without interfering with this Git repository, create a file named LocalSettings.props in the projects\2012 subdirectory, using the following template:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Project ToolsVersion="4.0" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003">
  <PropertyGroup>
  </PropertyGroup>
</Project>

Inside the <PropertyGroup> tag, you can set the following:

• <PlatformToolset>: Necessary for compiling on non-2012 Visual Studio versions. For a list of all platform toolsets available on your system, open the Project Properties dialog (Alt+F7) and refer to the drop-down menu at Configuration Properties → General → Platform Toolset.

• <NPPBinRoot>: Path to your Notepad++ test instance. The plugin DLL will be put into $(NPPBinRoot)\plugins\, and debugging from Visual Studio will start $(NPPBinRoot)\notepad++.exe.

• <NPPSourceRoot>: If you want to test with your own Notepad++ build that you compiled using its Visual Studio projects, you can set this to the directory or your Notepad++ source tree (the directory that contains the .git, PowerEditor, and scintilla subdirectories). Doing this will automatically set $(NPPBinRoot) to the correct output directory depending on the configuration/platform selected for compiling this plugin, according to the following table:

	Win32	x64
ANSI Debug	.\PowerEditor\visual.net\ANSI Debug\	.\PowerEditor\visual.net\x64\ANSI Debug\
Unicode Debug	.\PowerEditor\visual.net\Unicode Debug\	.\PowerEditor\visual.net\x64\Unicode Debug\
Release	.\PowerEditor\bin\	.\PowerEditor\bin64\

For debugging, make sure that you've compiled Notepad++ with the identical configuration/platform combination, which will have put a notepad++.exe into the correct path.

Example templates

Testing with your own Notepad++ builds from a source tree, on Visual Studio 2013 with XP targeting

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Project ToolsVersion="4.0" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003">
  <PropertyGroup>
    <PlatformToolset>v120_xp</PlatformToolset>
    <NPPSourceRoot>C:\path\to\notepad-plus-plus\</NPPSourceRoot>
  </PropertyGroup>
</Project>

Testing with official Notepad++ binaries, on Visual Studio 2015

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Project ToolsVersion="4.0" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003">
  <PropertyGroup>
    <PlatformToolset>v140</PlatformToolset>
    <NPPBinRoot Condition="'$(Platform)'=='Win32'">C:\path\to\32-bit\notepad++\</NPPBinRoot>
    <NPPBinRoot Condition="'$(Platform)'=='x64'">C:\path\to\64-bit\notepad++\</NPPBinRoot>
  </PropertyGroup>
</Project>

fileswitcher's Issues

[Enhancement] Make shown tab panel dockable and/or persistent

Hello, it would be great to make the tab panel shown by the plugin:

• Dockable: so that it could be added to the other panel tabs.

and/or

• Persistent: so that it doesn't disappear once it loses focus.