NppQrCode

A Notepad++ plugin for creating QR codes from selected text. Just select some text and click the button.

Installation

Plugins Admin (recommended)

A builtin plugin manager is available in Notepad++ versions 7.6 and newer.

Find Plugins on the main menu bar and select Plugins Admin.... Check the box beside NppQrCode and click Install.

Manual installation

• Download a release archive

• System-wide Notepad++ installation

  • Create a folder named NppQrCode64 under %ProgramFiles%\Notepad++\plugins (64-bit), or (for 32-bit versions) create a folder named NppQrCode32 under %ProgramFiles(x86)%\Notepad++\plugins

• Portable Notepad++

  • Locate the plugins folder where notepad++.exe is installed
  • Create a folder named NppQrCode64 (64-bit) or NppQrCode32 (32-bit)

• Extract NppQrCode64.dll (64-bit) or NppQrCode32.dll (32-bit) from the downloaded ZIP archive

• Move NppQrCode64.dll (64-bit) or NppQrCode32.dll (32-bit) into the corresponding folder

• Restart Notepad++ if it’s already running

Building

Clone this repo and all subprojects:

git clone --recursive https://github.com/rdipardo/nppQrCode.git

or, from inside your local source tree:

git submodule update --init --recursive

Lazarus

Install Lazarus for 64-bit Windows from SourceForge, or via the Scoop package manager.

Note

A separate 32-bit installation is needed for building x86 Windows binaries. See here for more information.

Double-click the 'NppQrCode.lpi' file. If prompted, click the Open project button.

Expand the Lazarus IDE's Run menu and click Build.

To build using lazbuild.exe at the command line, see here for a guide to setting up your environment.

Delphi

Important

You must have Delphi RAD Studio installed with support for the 64-bit Windows platform. Version 10.1 (Berlin) or newer is recommended.

Using the MSBuild CLI

Delphi 10.4 (Sydney)

.\build.cmd [Debug,Release] [32,64]

Other Delphi versions

Edit 'build.cmd' and change the BDS_ENV variable to the full path of 'rsvars.bat' in the 'bin' directory of your RAD Studio installation. Then run the script as above.

Using Delphi RAD Studio

1. Open NppQrCode.dpr
2. Build NppQrCode.dll [as a normal Delphi project]

Copyright and licence

QRFormUnit and resources (c) 2018 Vladimir Korobenkov (vladk1973)

Bug fixes and revisions (c) 2023 Robert Di Pardo

All updates to the source code since October 2023 are made available under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 3 or later.

This plugin uses a Delphi port of the ZXing barcode image processing library, as implemented by Michael Demidov in his DelphiZXingQRCodeEx demo project. ZXing and DelphiZXingQRCodeEx are both made available under the terms of the Apache License, Version 2.0.

This plugin also uses a 64-bit-compatible rewrite of the Delphi plugin template by Damjan Zobo Cvetko, which is made available under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 3 or later. Some individual files may alternatively be covered by the LGPL, Version 3 or later, or the Mozilla Public License, Version 2.0. Visit the template repository for complete information.