Enhancement: Allow certain record types to be "decorated" about fwdataviz HOT 4 CLOSED

FWDataViz is a plugin that is constrained by the APIs of Notepad++ and the Scintilla text control. Scintilla provides several API functions to draw multiple vertical lines to indicate line lengths. But none for horizontal lines.

However, I can think of an alternative to achieve some sort of banding effect within the Scintilla API. And more importantly, do this while not adding much more non-intuitive complexity to the FWDataViz metadata editor UI or compromising the runtime performance of the visualizer algorithm.

I think it might be feasible to provide a choice of color themes at the Record Type level. With such a feature, you could choose to have a custom monochrome theme, with shades of grey, for that demarcation record type; and retain the more colorful theme inherited from the File Type level setting for the other record types.

Since I will be busy with my other obligations during the coming weeks, I will not be able to start work on this feature for a short while.

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Jeff, I have added the Record Type Theme feature. That should allow you to specify distinctive themes to certain record types that serve as section headers or demarcators.

To obtain this latest release files, please go to the 1.0.3.0-RC Release page. Download the zip version to match your Notepad++ bitness. Unzip it into the <NPP_Plugins_folder>/FWDataviz folder to overwrite the existing files therein.

Please let me know if you see any regression issues with this build. Appreciate your suggestion for this feature. Please share your feedback.

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Jeff, Thanks for the feedback. I am just curious to know why you would favor manual edits instead of using the interactive theme editor.

Nevertheless, I will see if I can get the plugin code to not crash Notepad++ and recover gracefully when the theme file has been incorrectly edited

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