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Description of the Issue

As currently implemented, the Style ListBox in the Style Configurator is too narrow to show the whole name of the style. For example, without individually clicking, you cannot tell which Style is Change History revert modified vs Change History revert origin, because both show up as just Change History rev. 

Many of the per-language styles also extend beyond the width of the ListBox. And even the Language field is a bit too narrow; see, for example, Tektronix extended HEX getting cut off to Tektronix ext.

The GUI thus requires extra clicking to figure out which Style is which, which slows down finding the Style you're actually looking for.

It would be nice if there were some easier way to see the whole Style name, other than clicking on them individually until you've found the Style you are looking for.

Describe the solution you'd like.

There are a variety of options that I and others have thought of (see the Forum discussion).

I will list them from the least appealing to me to the one that I would prefer -- with some notes on each:

1. Resize the Style ListBox without changing the size of the Style Configurator dialog
   • this would take space away from the others, and wouldn't be very workable
2. Permanently resize the Style Configurator dialog to make it wider
   • the Style Configurator dialog is already pretty wide, and making it permanently wider could inconvenience other users
3. Make the Style Configurator dialog user-resizable, and stretch the ListBoxes to fill the extra space
   • the extra space could be split, so about 40% of the extra space goes to the Language ListBox, and about 60% of the extra space goes to the Style ListBox
   • there should be a "smallest-width-allowed" limit, so the dialog is never made any narrower than it currently is
   • being resizable makes the decision up to the user rather than forcing the width upon them
4. Make the individual entries in the ListBox have Hover Text
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   • When the mouse cursor is hovering over a Language name or a Style name, the full name could be hovered over
   • In the forum, Ekopalypse suggested LB_ITEMFROMPOINT
   • I found this SO question about different tooltips for each item in ListBox
5. Changing the Language ListBox to a ComboBox, which would make both of the Language and the Style lists wider. (This was suggested by mpheath in the same Forum discussion, and immediately became my favorite idea) -- here's mpheath's mockup, showing the old arrangement vs the new:
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   • This solution looks really clean to me, and improves both the Language and the Style lists in a very straightforward fix

To sum up, my preference would be suggestion 5 (mpheath's suggestion of the Language ComboBox over the Style ListBox). But any of suggestions 3 - 5 would make it easier to read the Language and Style names while using the Style Configurator.

Debug Information

Notepad++ v8.7.4   (64-bit)
Build time : Dec  4 2024 - 23:50:05
Path : C:\usr\local\apps\npp\npp.8.7.4.portable.x64\notepad++.exe
Command Line : 
Admin mode : OFF
Local Conf mode : ON
Cloud Config : OFF
Periodic Backup : ON
Placeholders : OFF
DirectWrite : ON
Multi-instance Mode : monoInst
File Status Auto-Detection : cdEnabledNew (for current file/tab only)
Dark Mode : OFF
OS Name : Windows 10 Enterprise (64-bit)
OS Version : 22H2
OS Build : 19045.5131
Current ANSI codepage : 1252
Plugins : none

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