Ok having hassled someone who actually knows VS and turned up the MS Build verbosity I have worked out the issue was the same as described in: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23497591/notepad-plugin-build-error-vs-2013

Changing sdk path as follows: SdkPath=“$(SDK40ToolsPath)”
fixed it

Hi Tomas!
Thank you for Quick Color Picker +!

Best regargs, again thank!

@dail said:

So I’m attempting to write an external lexer (well kind of, but that’s a different story). I’ve looked at some other examples (the GEDCOM lexer, Gmod Lua Lexer, etc) and understand how they work and the general setup for getting an external lexer working.

My question is regarding styling. In the xml file associated with the external lexer, there are “WordsStyle” tags that need to be defined that have a styleID, font color, size, et*

italicised text*c so that the external lexer Lex() function can use these styles. Is there a way to generate these styles within the lexer itself, meaning you can possibly have a varying number of styles? I know there isn’t a huge number of people that deal with external lexers, so hopefully someone can help :)

@greenzest As for your bonus question…there is not a defined way to add commands to the main N++ menu. IIRC, I think that TextFx is a special case since it is so old and has been around a while. That’s not to say with enough knowledge of the Win32 API you couldn’t figure out a way to do it, but I’m not sure if that would ever run you into problems later. So is it possible? (Yeah, probably) Is it suggested? (No)

if you choose last tab and compare, it will compare with previous
v1.5.6.6 - have message: “it is more then 1000 wanna go y/n” and go inf

v1.5.6.7 - no massage, have progress bar with cancel and it not work)

need that all together and working!

author hosting have only old files:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/npp-compare/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/sourcecookifier/files/other plugins/

tl;dr NPPDarkCrypt author hasn’t put it in the plugin manager.

The plugin manager is just a tool for convenience. If a plugin is in the manager doesn’t mean it is official (and visa versa). It is up to the plugin author if they want people to download it through the plugin manager or not. Plugins submitted to the plugin manager are roughly checked to make sure they don’t do anything obviously malicious but that doesn’t mean every line of code is reviewed.

OK, I found it. The plugin download URL has a misspelling in it. It cannot access the Github file. The letter “c” was left out of cpmcgrath.

Incorrect URL: https://github.com/cpmgrath/codealignment

Correct URL: https://github.com/cpmcgrath/codealignment

Can’t fix it from here, but maybe I can manually access the plugin through GitHub.