This is a base working version of a Notepad++ plug-in written in rust. It's purpose is to allow quick shifting of an Ignition Perspective pipe by a set amount.
In Ignition Perspective using a Coordinate Container, there is no easy way to move pipes around precisely. Say I need shift my P&ID drawing up by 20 pixels, and to the right by 10. I can either try and drag it using the mouse and may not be precise, or I can go into the pipes properties, do the calculations and manually update the coordinates for each and every connection which is accurate but slow.
When you copy a pipe it just copies the raw json to the clipboard. This plug-in will shift all the coordinates by the given X and Y values, and then you can copy and paste the updated json back onto the pipe in Ignition Designer.
It's pretty basic, and just uses a basic regex find a replace for all x and y coordinate values.
As someone pointed out, I probably could have done this from within Ignition as a Python script...true, but I guess part of me wanted to
- Practice some Rust / C FFI
- See if I could create a Notepad++ plug-in.
Why choose Slint for the dialog box? I initially tried using the Rust Native Windows Gui crate since it's just a single simple dialog box, but I have a hi DPI monitor and I couldn't get it to respect the scaling settings. Out of the other Rust Gui options, the only 2 I've spent any time with were Druid (work has moved to Xilem which isn't ready) and Slint, so that seemed like the quick and easy choice.
I've never used Github Actions, before, and as of right now I don't have it building the dll and uploading the artifact. Until I get this working you will need to build it yourself.
If you already have rust installed (on Windows since that's the only official platform of Notepad++, although I've heard it works well in Wine), it should just be a matter of checking out the code and doing a cargo build --release
Once you have built the dll create a folder titled "ignition_npp_tools" under the plugins directory for Notepad++ and drop the dll in there. Start Notepad++ and you should find it in the menu under Plugins->Ignition Tools->Move Pipes