Configuration of Notepad++ for use with PAWN

This section cover all the necessary steps to get Notepad++ to compile your PAWN script, highlight errors and warnings and fast jump to where they are generated.

Associate Notepad++ with PAWN source files

From Settings Menu select Preferences...

Select File Association, then select Customize, then add .p .pwn .inc extensions

Compile

NppExec plugin

Is a plugin that allow for execution of external programs.

Installation

From Plugins Menu: select Plugin Manager, then select Show Plugin Manager

In the Available tab: find & select NppExec, then click Install

Configuration

From Plugins Menu: select NppExec, then select Execute

In the Command(s) window type:

npp_save
cd $(CURRENT_DIRECTORY)
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Pawn\bin\pawncc.exe" -V -d0 -O3 -v2 -t4 "$(FILE_NAME)"

then clik Save

in the Script Name type:

PAWN Compile

then clik Save

From Plugins Menu: select NppExec, then select Advanced Options

In Menu items * frame

• check Place to the Macros submenu

In Menu item frame:

• in Associated script select PAWN Compile from the list
• click Add/Modify, then click OK

Compile Shortcut

From Settings Menu select Shortcut Mapper

Select the Plugin Commands tab, search & select PAWN Compile, then click Modify

Select the combination that you want e.g.: Shift + F7 than click OK

Compile Toolbar Button

Installation

From Plugins Menu: select Plugin Manager, then select Show Plugin Manager

Under the Available tab: find & select Customize Toolbar, then click Install

Configuration

• Download this image and save it in: %appdata%\Notepad++\plugins\config as compile.bmp
• Into the same folder create a file named CustomizeToolbar.btn with this content Macro,PAWN Compile,,,compile.bmp
• From Encoding Menu select Encode in UCS-2 LE BOM ( this apply to CustomizeToolbar.btn )

• From Plugins Menu select Customize Toolbar, then select Custom Buttons to enable

Errors & Warnings

From Plugins Menu select NppExec, then select Console Output Filters

In the Filter tab, check Enable Console Output Filter

In the Replace tab:

• check Enable Replacing Filters
• check Replacing Filter 1
• fill Find what: (
• fill Replace with: :
• check Replacing Filter 2
• fill Find what: )
• leave empty Replace with:

In the HighLight tab:

• check first item
• fill it with: %FILE%:%LINE% :*error*
• fill: Red 0xFF, Green 0x00, Blue 0x00
• check B

• check second item
• fill it with: %FILE%:%LINE% :*warning*
• fill: Red 0x00, Green 0x00, Blue 0xFF
• check B

• click OK

Syntax Highlight & In-line Help

• From the config folder of the HydDevKit copy userDefineLang.xml into %appdata%/Notepad++ folder
• From the config folder of the HydDevKit copy PAWN.xml into C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\plugins\APIs folder

Auto-completion

From Settings Menu select Preferences...

Select Auto-Completion, then choose your preferred combination