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README.TXT for TextPad 1.29
===========================
Thank you for choosing to evaluate TextPad. It got the PC Plus Gold
Award in the May '95 issue, and it's a finalist in the 1995 Ziff-Davis
Shareware Awards competition.
Have you got the latest release? Updates are available from CompuServe
forums WINSHARE, WINUTIL and PCAPP as TPAD16.ZIP and TPAD32.ZIP. You
can also get it using FTP from oak.oakland.edu (and SimTel mirror sites)
as /simtel/win3/editor/txpad???.zip.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
-----------------
INTRODUCTION
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS
INSTALLATION
RESTRICTED FEATURES
REGISTRATION
SETTING COLORS
TIPS
ENHANCEMENTS
KNOWN PROBLEMS
INTRODUCTION:
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TextPad aims to provide the power and functionality to satisfy your most
demanding text editing requirements. It is Windows hosted, and comes in
16 and 32-bit editions. Huge files can be edited by either - just choose
the edition that works best with your PC. The 32-bit edition is only
limited by virtual memory, and it will work with Win32s and Windows 95.
TextPad has been implemented according to the Windows 95 user interface
guidelines, so great attention has been paid to making it easy for both
beginners and experienced users. In-context help is available for all
commands, and in-context menus pop-up with the right mouse button. The
multi-document interface allows multiple files to be edited simultaneously,
with up to 2 views on each file. You can drag and drop text between files.
In addition to the usual cut and paste capabilities, you can correct the
most common typing errors with commands to change case, and transpose words,
characters and lines. Other commands let you indent blocks of text, split
or join lines, and insert whole files. Any change can be undone or redone,
right back to the first one made. Visible bookmarks can be put on lines.
It also has a customizable tools menu, and integral file compare and search
commands, with hypertext jumps from the matched text to the corresponding
line in the source file (ideal for integrating compilers).
To find out more, install TextPad by referring to the instructions below,
and then read the introduction in the on-line help file.
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:
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16-bit Edition: 32-bit Edition:
o 386SX with 4MB RAM o 486SX with 12MB RAM (only for NT)
o 1MB free disk space o 1MB free disk space
o Windows 3.1 in 386 o Windows 95 (beta 3) or NT 3.5 or
enhanced mode Windows 3.1 with Win32s 1.2
INSTALLATION:
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From a ZIP File:
1) Unzip into a new temporary directory, with PKUNZIP 2.04g.
2) Run SETUP.EXE using File Manager or Program Manager.
3) Follow the on-screen instructions, but install into a
different directory from that in step 1 above.
4) Delete the files unzipped in step 1 above.
From Floppy Disk:
1) From Program Manager, choose the Run command from the
File menu.
2) Type "A:\SETUP" to run the TextPad setup program.
3) Follow the on-screen instructions.
You can install both editions into the same directory.
There is no need to modify your search path.
RESTRICTED FEATURES:
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The following features are only available to registered users:
1) OLE2 drag and drop editing. Local drag and drop editing is always
available, but scrolling has not been implemented. This means that
you can drop text in the visible view, but you cannot scroll the
view whilst dragging.
2) Searching of subdirectories with the Find in Files command.
REGISTRATION:
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If you make use of TextPad you must register it. Registered users
will receive a copy of the latest releases of both the 16 and 32-bit
editions, along with the Win32s and OLE2 files necessary for running
in 32-bit mode on Windows 3.1.
Click the "How to Purchase" button in the About dialog box, or see
the file REGISTER.TXT for details.
SETTING COLORS:
---------------
The foreground and background colors used by TextPad can be modified,
but there is no user interface yet. To make changes, you must edit
the [Colors] section in TEXTPAD.INI. Each color is specified by 6
hex digits in the form BBGGRR, so black is 000000, green is 00FF00,
light gray is C0C0C0, and white is FFFFFF. You can only use the
sixteen standard Windows colors, so the nearest color will be used if
you specify anything else. The defaults are as specified in Control
Panel. Note that if you use TextPad to edit TEXTPAD.INI, your
changes will be overwritten when you exit, so use NotePad!
TIPS:
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- Ctrl+Left click in the left margin selects the whole file.
- Left double click in the left margin selects the whole line.
- Ctrl+Shift+O brings up a simple dialog box for file opening.
- In the Replace dialog box, '\t' is interpreted as a tab in the
replacement string, regardless of the Regular Expression check box
setting. To replace with the literal characters '\' and 't', you
must specify '\\t' as the replacement string.
- When the File Open dialog box is enabled for multi-file opening,
it does not show long file names (except on Windows 95). This
setting can be changed on the Configure/Options dialog box.
- After you have saved the Search or Command output results as an
ordinary file, it loses its hypertext jump property, but you can
always load an ordinary file into the Command output window by
capturing the output from the DOS TYPE command.
ENHANCEMENTS:
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In This Release:
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On Windows 95 and NT, the 32-bit edition uses the Windows Registry,
instead of TEXTPAD.INI to save its settings. This means that any
previously applied settings will have to be made again, the first
time this release is run. Sorry for any inconvenience.
New commands to insert the current date and time have been added to
the Edit menu.
The installation program now automatically registers TextPad's DDE
commands.
In The Last Release:
--------------------
The Edit menu, and right button context menus have been redesigned to
offer more features in a concise form.
Settings for Tabs, File Filters, and Hypertext expressions have been
moved from the Configure menu to tabs on the Options dialog box.
Settings for Document Properties have been moved to a tabbed dialog
box, which includes a Statistics tab showing the word count, and
when the file was last saved.
The status bar is now "active". Double clicking a pane changes its
setting, except for Caps lock, Scroll lock, and word-wrap mode.
There's a new edit command to transpose adjacent words.
In auto-indent mode, a closing '}' on a line on its own is
automatically unindented.
The Tools menu now supports up to 16 user-defined tools, including
menu separators.
The Find in Files Command scrolls its output faster.
KNOWN PROBLEMS:
---------------
The 32-bit edition cannot print to HP DeskJet 500 printers using the
HP driver under Win32s. This is an HP/Win32s problem. The workaround
is to install the Microsoft driver for this printer instead.
Enjoy using TextPad! Please send any comments to us at:
_______________________________
Helios Software Solutions
Carr Brook House
Chorley Old Road
Brindle
Chorley
Lancs. PR6 7QZ
England
Phone/Fax: +44-(0)1772-324353
CompuServe: 100041,235
Internet: textpad@heliosof.demon.co.uk
________________________________________________________________________
Helios Software Solutions is an approved vendor and associate member of
the Association of Shareware Professionals (ASP).
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