Three new plugins

[Charles Dye]

I've uploaded some new plugins:

FunctionHelp: Implements status-bar help for functions, much like the built-in help for commands. When you type the name of a function, FunctionHelp displays the function’s syntax in the status bar. If you mouse over the status bar, a popup will show more information.

Scrolly: Adds hotkeys to scroll backward and forward through the console window by commands.

UChars: Adds a few new functions to support Unicode characters. They behave similarly to TCC’s familiar native functions, but support high-order Unicode characters — characters outside the Basic Multilingual Plane, with values greater than 0xFFFF.

 

[Joe Caverly]

Thanks @Charles Dye for FunctionHelp.

Great to have the function help in the status line.

It is a great addition to pressing the F7 key at the prompt;

However, after selecting the function, and returning to the console, the help is not displayed on the status line;

If I press the backspace key, and then press the [ key, the help is displayed;

Joe

     _x64: 1
   _admin: 1
_elevated: 1

TCC  26.02.42 x64   Windows 10 [Version 10.0.18363.959]

 

[Charles Dye]

Yes. I'm only trapping the [ and ] keys. If you put the function name on the command line without typing a [, the plugin won't know about it.

Charles

 

[dcantor]

How about one more switch for SCROLLY ? a switch to display the current settings without changing any of them. Perhaps SCROLLY /LC. And if you can do that, how about SCROLLY /LR to list the settings stored in the registry without loading them? Any switch letters will do, of course.


Thanks for considering them.

 

[Charles Dye]

How about one more switch for SCROLLY ? a switch to display the current settings without changing any of them. Perhaps SCROLLY /LC. And if you can do that, how about SCROLLY /LR to list the settings stored in the registry without loading them? Any switch letters will do, of course.

For the first one, SCROLLY with no options will display the current settings.

 

[dcantor]

Ah, thanks. And for the storage in the registry, I can just look in the registry.

 

[Alpengreis]

@Charles Dye

For me, the FunctionHelp is REALLY a help, thank you for your great work!

PS: I miss your Elevated Plugin in your list at Plugins for Take Command

PPS: Scrolly does not work here, I just hear the error sound (tried with different keys). My system data:
Microsoft Windows 10 Pro x64 [19041.450] [2004] [de-CH] TCC 26.02.42 x64

 

[Charles G]

@Charles Dye

For me, the FunctionHelp is REALLY a help, thank you for your great work!

PS: I miss your Elevated Plugin in your list at Plugins for Take Command

PPS: Scrolly does not work here, I just hear the error sound (tried with different keys). My system data:
Microsoft Windows 10 Pro x64 [19041.450] [2004] [de-CH] TCC 26.02.42 x64

i have the Elevated plugin - can upload it here....???

 

[Charles Dye]

It's also here: ftp://prospero.unm.edu/elevated.zip

 

[Alpengreis]

@Charles Dye

Would you have some hints for me that I could use your Scrolly PlugIn too. Maybe difficult but I nevertheless ask you ... (system data see my posting above) ...

 

[Charles Dye]

@Charles Dye

Would you have some hints for me that I could use your Scrolly PlugIn too. Maybe difficult but I nevertheless ask you ... (system data see my posting above) ...

Sorry; I missed your post.

I'll see if I can get hold of build 2004, and try to replicate the problem.

 

[Alpengreis]

Sorry; I missed your post.

No problem, that can happen.

I'll see if I can get hold of build 2004, and try to replicate the problem.

Ok, thank you!

 

[Charles Dye]

I can confirm there's a problem with Windows 10 build 2004. Is anyone seeing this issue on any earlier build of Windows 10?

 

[Charles Dye]

I've uploaded a new build, which tries to work around changes in the console API.

 

[Alpengreis]

@Charles Dye

And it works! Not with default key settings but this is maybe not the fault of Scrolly. However: after I changed the key settings to Ctrl-Shift-PgUp and Ctrl-Shift-PgDn it works like a charm now.

Thank you!

 

[Charles Dye]

And it works! Not with default key settings but this is maybe not the fault of Scrolly. However: after I changed the key settings to Ctrl-Shift-PgUp and Ctrl-Shift-PgDn it works like a charm now.

Good. Thanks for the confirmation.

The default keys did work on my test machine; maybe that's a new-console-vs.-legacy-console thing.

 

[Alpengreis]

Well, I use - since few Win 10 versions - the "new-console" ... I don't know if you use the legacy (yet)?

Maybe the default key-sequences are in use or reserved through another program here or something like that.

However: was/is no big deal (for me).