CodeLab v6.12 for Paint.NET 5.0.12 (Updated February 11, 2024)

[Red ochre]

8 hours ago, toe_head2001 said:

There are two reasons someone might want to disable it:

3. When it changes your own simple variable to some unknown (to me) Pdn method with a similar name.😉

- Thanks both for putting in the work.

[toe_head2001]

29 minutes ago, Red ochre said:

3. When it changes your own simple variable to some unknown (to me) Pdn method with a similar name.

 

That sounds like a scenario that falls into bullet-point one or two.

 

Do you have the steps for when it does that?

[Red ochre]

Yes, it does ... it was very annoying (and confusing) at the time, but sadly I've forgotten the exact variable name that caused the problem. Good to know it can be turned off if needed now.

[Reptillian]

With regards to autocompletion, I'd be happy if the suggestion could pop up, but it autocomplete with arrow keys only. And if that's not clear, KDE Kate behaves like that.

Edited August 11, 2022 by Reptillian

[toe_head2001]

Visual Studio has a visual hint to indicate when an item will/won't auto complete:

Solid Selection = Auto Complete

Outline Selection = No Auto Complete (in case of typos, auto complete can be forced with the Tab key)

 

 

I'm adding a similar hint to CodeLab.  I hope this will reduce "surprises" when an item auto completes (or doesn't).

 

[toe_head2001]

Serveral months ago Visual Studio Code added this thing called Rainbow Braces.

The feature is available in the regular Visual Studio with extensions: Viasfora or Rainbow Braces.

 

Now that I've become accustom to these rainbow braces, I wanted them in CodeLab too.

 

So... the next version of CodeLab will have an option for Rainbow Braces!

 

 

[Ego Eram Reputo]

Dang. I never knew I needed them until I saw this ^ screenshot. Yes please

 

[Pixey]

9 hours ago, toe_head2001 said:

 

So... the next version of CodeLab will have an option for Rainbow Braces!

 

So pretty 😍 It might even get me interested in writing code 😂

[toe_head2001]

Hey, look at that... color previews in the auto complete box.

 

 

 

EDIT:

 

Tooltips too!

 

[Rick Brewster]

@toe_head2001, do you show doc comments like IntelliSense does? This will be really useful for PDN v5

 

 

 

[toe_head2001]

No support for doc comments yet.

It's something I've wanted to do for a while, but hasn't been a priority.

Should be fairly straightforward to implement though.

[TrevorOutlaw]

I like the multi-colored brackets as I think it will make reading codes easier as I sometime get lost in reading the sequencing.

[toe_head2001]

@Rick Brewster

 

Work-in-progress screenshots!

 

 

[Red ochre]

That could be very informative.

The colour coded parenthesis look very useful too... previously I would add a comment e.g.. "// end inner loop"... it's so easy to get it wrong, then the errors disappear and you can't see where you have gone wrong.

[BoltBait]

CodeLab v6.7

(for Paint.NET v5.0+)

 

Changes in Paint.NET v5.0 prevents older versions of CodeLab from running.  So, if you want to develop plugins in Paint.NET v5.0 you'll need to download CodeLab from this thread.

 

What's new:

• Visual hint to indicate when an item will/won't auto complete
• Rainbow Braces
• Color previews in tooltips and auto complete
• Summaries from Doc Comments

 

No support for authoring GPU plugins just yet.  Honestly, @toe_head2001 just made enough changes to get CodeLab back to a working state.  We have TONS of plans for supporting all the new toys @Rick Brewster has given us plugin developers in Paint.NET v5.0 (such as tabs and the ability to write GPU accelerated plugins), but that's a long way off.  We've been working on updating our own plugins first so that we can learn the new techniques required for the next phase of CodeLab.  It has been a LONG journey and much progress has been made.  Be patient and eventually CodeLab will be updated further.

 

Download:

 

https://boltbait.com/pdn/codelab

 

[Pixey]

Oops!  Windows Defender doesn't like this download

 

[Rick Brewster]

Yeah I'm seeing that too 🤔 It's likely a false positive, but BoltBait it's worth doing a virus scan of your system just to be 100% sure

 

[BoltBait]

My system is clean.  I just don't have a way to sign my installers.

 

 

Reputable code signing costs over $500/year... so, I'm going to need LOTS more donations if I'm going to make that happen.

 

I just MIGHT be able to get a discount code signer... they only cost $60/year.  Investigating...

 

https://codesigningstore.com/cheap-code-signing-certificates

 

 

 

[ReMake]

I had no problems installing CodeLab 6.7 on Windows 10.

[Pixey]

Windows Defender will not let me download this.  As it seems to be a false positive, do I have to disable Defender to get this downloaded?

[otuncelli]

@Pixey No, you don't need to disable Defender completely. You can add an exclusion.

 

See here:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/add-an-exclusion-to-windows-security-811816c0-4dfd-af4a-47e4-c301afe13b26?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US#ID0EBF=Windows_11

 

If you're having trouble to do this (because Windows being so fast to delete the file), just disable "Real-time Protection" temporarily then add the exclusion.

[Pixey]

39 minutes ago, otuncelli said:

just disable "Real-time Protection" temporarily then add the exclusion.

 

Many thanks for your help @otuncelli but I have a dilemma as the 'download' doesn't complete and says "Unconfirmed.crdownload" which Defender doesn't recognize as an exclusion 😱

 

EDIT:  I did it after temporarily disabling Real-time.  Thank you so much for the help 😁

[BoltBait]

@Rick Brewster the build of CodeLab posted above is not compatible with your latest build of Paint.NET.  Running it gives the following error:

 

Quote

File: C:\Program Files\paint.net\Effects\CodeLab.dll
      Name: PaintDotNet.Effects.CodeLabRegular
      Version: 6.7.8360.24707
      Author: Copyright ©2022 BoltBait
      Copyright: C# Code Editor for Paint.NET Plugin Development
      Website: https://www.boltbait.com/pdn/CodeLab/
      Full error message: System.MethodAccessException: Attempt by method 'PaintDotNet.Effects.CodeLabConfigDialog..ctor()' to access method 'PaintDotNet.PdnBaseForm.get_EnableOpacity()' failed.
   at PaintDotNet.Effects.CodeLabConfigDialog..ctor()
   at PaintDotNet.Effects.CodeLab.OnCreateConfigForm()
   at PaintDotNet.Effects.EffectBase.PaintDotNet.Effects.IEffect.CreateConfigForm()
   at PaintDotNet.Menus.EffectMenuBase.RunEffectImpl(EffectInfo effectInfo)
 

 

@toe_head2001 is trying to read EnableOpacity which is now marked internal.  We read this to see if that option is enabled in the Paint.NET settings.

 

Options?

 

EDIT: BTW, we're not the only plugin reading this property.

 

[toe_head2001]

To be clear, we want to see if this option is Enabled/Disabled.

 

If it is disabled, we grey-out these menu items in CodeLab, as they would do nothing.

 

[Rick Brewster]

You're not setting the property though?