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Please report feedback on Win32Pad 1.3.3 in this thread.

Gena01

Hi

I know that this application has been designed to be a replacement for the Notepad, but still I dislike that F5 has not been assigned to "Reload file...". Somehow I think that this will not be changed 8-)
 
To me it is just a normal way to refresh contents, just like in Windows Explorer and Internet Explorer, but now I end up with bunch of date stamps. Which by the way do NOT honour the regional settings of Windows.


Also some of the menuitems might need a little tuning. The ellipses are heavily used on items that do not require additional input from the user (New, About, Preferences,Properties, File Format, ...) and they are missing from some where they should be used (Open, Find, ...) Also some items are in quite unfamiliar places (Properties, Insert, Search, ...)

If you like to know more about those I suggest you browse thru "The Microsoft Windows User Experience : Official Guidelines for User Interface Developers and Designers" which is available as a book or from MSDN. It is a bit old, but there are a lot of good examples how and why things should be done or what to avoid.

Please don't take this as a rant, your application is already very nice and useful. Thank you for releasing it as a freeware application.


Keep up the good work,

Mig

MRU not working properly.

Not storing paths, so when attempting to open file, reports "Can't open file".

Mikael, in reference to F5 ...

In notepad F5 does not refresh, it prints the date/time.

1.3.2 worked properly.

1.3.3 only stores the 'basename'.  (Well actually basename.ext).  Also, on a network file \\compture2\filename.txt, the full path is stored.

BTW, I do appreciate the expanded MRU list (even if it isn't currently working correctly).

Hmmm.   This was on Win98 where I noticed the MRU problem.

It does not seem to be a problem on Win2K.

Just discovered your program. I love it! Especially the support for UNIX and Mac files. Thanks!

Forget what I said about MRU.

It IS working properly.

I tried it on another computer running Win98 & could not duplicate the problem.

Turns out that the particular files that did not have the full pathname included, I had opened through a Norton Commander style program (Servant Salamander).  In that program I had set win32pad as my default editor.  Turns out that it was only passing the filename as a paramater to win32pad.  I changed it to pass the "fullname" & now all is well.


BTW, Servant Salamander, as is win32pad, is an EXCELLENT program (shareware).  For anyone who wants to check it out.  (Hope you don't mind the plug).

http://www.altap.cz/salam_en/index.html

Question on dialog box ...

"Can't open file for writing!

The process cannot access the file because
it is being used by another process"


Now I know what is causing it.  Just wondering if that is something new, or is it that I've just never run across it before.


Cause if it's new, for me at least, it's not really a desirable feature.

Reason:  Many times I may have a file open, generally in a Dos program like List.com or Browse.com, or various file comparison utilities.  Those utilities are generally always "read-only".  At the same time, I am likely to have the same file opened in win32pad, making changes over time & then re-running the comparison.


Ok, looks like I just haven't run into it before.  If I use VIM (editor) or Visual Compare, it works as I wish.  If I use List, Browse, or Delta (another visual comparison tool), I get the message.  Now that I understand it more clearly, I can live with it.

Couldn't you disable or make an option for disabling smooth scroll - i don't like this?

"Ver 1.3.3 crashed on Windows 2000?"

Hi!

  This is a good and small editor.
However, as I upgrade it from 1.0.2
(really old)to 1.3.3(the newest),
it crashes while typing a letter
in Chinese(happened twice).
Is this a known problem?

  The OS is Windows 2000 SP4 for
Traditional Chinese. Riched20.dll
has been upgraded to Ver3.0.

  Thank you very much.

best regards,
    Boris

Hi!
This is nice lightweight editor.
The bug:
if replace some selection by tab...
System: WinNT 4.0 SP6a.

Best regards
Igor

About above-mentioned TAB.

It's naturally to indent the multiline block by TAB. But if this feature work when selected the part of one line, especially middle one? And as result, the selection is enlarged to all line with indention. This behaviour looks highly strange for me.
Maybe I am wrong?

In the rest, I shall repeat, I like this Pad. For example, such at first sight an insignificant thing, as length of the selected block...

Best regards
Igor

Off the current thread, you should add an option to allow single click of url's in files.

Hello,

I use win32pad, and find it the best replacement for notepad. Most others are much bigger, and take much longer to load. However, there a few things in it that could be improved.

Is it possible to select a home directory in a option somwhere instead of always opening the windows directory? Also, to make the show all filter default, so I can see text files with a different extention.

Thanks.

Hi, just wanted to say how much I luv the prog, I've used it for all of my web programming since I got it, up until my brief stint using a Linux computer, where I used gedit. I'm back on Windows now, and back to loving win32pad, but I really miss having multiple files open with the tabs in gedit, so I thought I'd suggest it as a possible future feature, it'd be a real icing on the cake for me, at least. Thanks alot, keep up the good work! ^_^

Hi,
I really like te program and I use it instead of Windows' Notepad at home and at work. I have a suggestion, though: to make the colors more configurable. Besides being able to set the colors for background and font, it would be nice to be able to set the colors for:
- line number background
- line number font
- hyperlinks (blue hyperlinks are hard to see when using a dark background)

Thanks and best regards,
  ciobi

Hi,

I've downloaded the Win32Pad application (great app!), but my txt files won't open in it, fore some reason the files won't associate with it, how do I fix this?

Thanks,

Navin

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>Making it configurable and off by default would be perfect, >thanks.

I'll think about adding this.

Also hate to throw out this nitpicks, but here goes:
>- can you limit the length of the filename in the MRU, I have a >really, really long path/filename combo and it's across my >screen on a 1024x768 setting.

This is fixed in my development version already.

> add a link to your homepage right on the Help menu

Hm. Nice idea.

> not that I ever use it but the contents & help links don't open >up automatically unless I'm in the win32pad directory.  You >might have to hardcore <apppath> & file into the menu option.

Will need to check this.

> opening a maximized window after minimizing to tray opens it >up in restored view, not maximized

I think I finally fixed it, in my development version.

>- adding associate to more files types as a subsection in the >installer: .log, .csv, .html, .css, etc.  Maybe in filetype groups, >Text, Web, etc.

We should compile the full list with groups, and I'll go and update the installer.  Also I'll check, but I know that there was a small option in the setup that allowed you to open ANY fiile from Windows Explorer's right click menu in Win32Pad.

Gena01

Hi. Your program is very good. I am using it to replace the PFE.

I only want to suggest, maybe you want to consider adding capability at the 'find' function (ctrl-f) and 'replace' function (ctrl-h) to find and replace non printable characters such as tab and especially new line (CR/LF)? Sometime I need to split one long line to multiple lines or combine multiple lines to single line.

Thank you for releasing this software as freeware.

Option to make the "find" sticky, or a drop down box with the last number of finds listed.

I appreciate the quick turnarond in responding, here's another tiny nitpik:

- the key that you update for txtfile in the registry (HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\txtfile\shell\open\command) should use the longfilename parameter of "%L" instead of the default "%1" which defaults to the short 8.3 filename

- an entry in the Options menu to clear MRU

Even less important:
- appending version number to the "- win32pad" title extension of the window

- ability to press esc to close the About screen.

I can't seem to find any documentation but I'm sure if the OS supports LongFileNames that this should work, I'll keep digging.

I downloaded the setup, and installed Win32Get a couple of times, but it just won't associate with my text files.
Maybe it got something to do with another text editor I installed before Win32get? I downloaded Copywriter first but I didn't like it, but that app did associate with my text files.

But I still use Win32Get, even though I can't open the files directly.

Navin, not sure if you mean Win32Get or Win32Pad, try downloading Win32Pad instead.

My mistake, I meant Win32Pad.

So did you download/install win32pad and it still didn't associate .txt?

Try see if another notepad program is running, like in the systray or something. Or if the other program changes the association from it's setting on load up.  win32pad does this with the installer, not each time it runs.

Oh yeah Gena01, that's a feature you can add to the Preferences for all the file types, etc instead of the installer.

Also, I loaded up a Unix formatted file and changed the setting to DOS/WIN from the file menu, without actually changing anything, but the file modified status needs to be triggered in order to enable saving the file in that format.

3 Words:  Multiple Document Interface

I Checked it in Regedit, what I see is "txt_auto_file"
and I recognize the icon, it's from some other program I think. What is the next step?