Notepad++ ActiveX Control

[kosist90]

Dear NI Community,

I've got one small question.

I'd like to play a bit with Notepad++ ActiveX, and I'm wondering, whether it is possible to use it as ActiveX control inside the VI. I've installed and registered Notepad++ ActiveX plugin, but I can not find instance of this class via ActiveX Container.

Did anyone worked with it, please? Maybe, someone know solution, how to embed it into VI front panel?

Thanks a lot in advance!

[Sam_Sharp]

Does Notepad++ actually have an ActiveX Control, or does it just have an ActiveX programming interface? If it's just the latter, then there's nothing to put in an ActiveX container.

[alexderjuengere · Accepted solution]

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@Sam_Sharp wrote:

Does Notepad++ actually have an ActiveX Control, or does it just have an ActiveX programming interface? If it's just the latter, then there's nothing to put in an ActiveX container.

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I presume it's only an ActivX Interface?

- Notepad++ 6.8.8

- ActivX plugin 1.1.7.3

- LabView 2015

after installation open a new vi, and press ctrl+shift+b to open the class browser

the default is VI server

you have to change this to ActivX > SELECT LIBRARY

I suppose the Notepadd++ library is "NppActiveXPluginTypLib Version 1.0"

[kosist90]

Thanks to everyone for the answer!

Just small update - as it is found, in LabVIEW anyway neither container for front panel, nor property/invoke nodes on the block diagram are not available for this ActiveX Notepad++ plugin...

[Hooovahh]

Not sure what your goal is but you can use the Rich Text Box ActiveX control to embed basically a notepad environment on the front panel of LabVIEW.

http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/allkb/7CFE9838693EFF53862575ED005770FA

[alexderjuengere]

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@kosist90 wrote:

Thanks to everyone for the answer!

Just small update - as it is found, in LabVIEW anyway neither container for front panel, nor property/invoke nodes on the block diagram are not available for this ActiveX Notepad++ plugin...

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okay, I just learned, in notepad++  you have to navigate to activex plugin>setting>register

then the NppActiveXPluginTypLib Version 1.0 will show up in:

Looks like this "register" does run an .exe which can be found in "C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\plugins\ActiveX\RegisterActiveX.exe"

Eventhough, if a invoke or property node is dropped on the blockdiagram, you can't run your vi 😞

So I looked up a tutorial from "activex plugin>help..>How to use this ActiveX Plugin?"

Type this lines ov visual basic code in  an open notepade, save as .vbs, and then doub-click the file

Option Explicit

Dim NppApplication

Set NppApplication = CreateObject("NotepadPlusPlus.Application")
Call NppApplication.activeEditor.newFile()
Call NppApplication.activeEditor.write("This text has been written by the example script!")

This  (kind of) works! Notepad++ opens a new file with the content "This text ..."

Trying to build this with nodes in Labview, seems straight forward.

Does someone know how to do:

Set NppApplication = CreateObject("NotepadPlusPlus.Application")

[vivek1006058]

hI,

Will it posibble to convert the Ascii  to hex using notepad ++(Because im working with chineese cheracters.)

Regards,

Vivek

[GerdW]

Hi vivek,

why do you want to use Npp for this conversion? Why not use LabVIEW?

[vivek1006058]

Hello GerdW,

Thanks For Your Reply

My need is im working with a language verification with Google tesseract (.net assembly).

Tessaract will give the output OCR in language other than english and it will be stored in a text file.

in labview is this possible to compare 𥱰=𥱰.

So i need to convert 𥱰 to its eqvalent unicode.

please advise if any ways to do this.

Notepad++ will have a plugin to convert Ascii---> Hex.

Regards,

VIvek G.

[GerdW]

Hi vivek,

to convert "ASCII" to "hex" in LabVIEW all you need is the StringToU8Array function…