This item clears the Trial Input and Output areas and the Scratch Pad
area, so any data that you have been testing with won't be seen by the people
who receive your filter.
Disable prompting
This item checks the filter for any form of user
prompting and offers to disable it. This is very useful when you need to
automate a complex filter, because it saves having to check each and every
search/replace filter to see if prompting is enabled, and also checking the
input filter to see if Prompt on Binary Files or Prompt Before Each File is
checked.
Put sample in Trial Input area
Depending on the Input Filter's selection, either grabs a sample of text from
the clipboard, or grabs the entire first file in the file list. An error message
is shown if there are no files in the file list or the file cannot be found.
Move Trial Output to Trial Input
Copies the text in the Trial Output area back to the Trial Input area.
Verify filter list
This command checks all the filters in the filter list for errors. This
action is always performed before a filter list is run.
Filter wizard
The Filter Wizard provides a step-by-step method for beginners to construct a
TextPipe filter list.
Command line wizard
Gives examples of invoking the current
filter from the command line.
Customize shell extensions
This option lets you customize the items that appear in the right-click menu in Windows Explorer when you
click on a file, folder or drive.
Show command line
Displays the command line used to start TextPipe. This can be used to
trouble-shoot command line parameters if you use macros to substitute variables.
Clipboard viewer
Displays the Windows
clipboard viewer, which displays the current contents of the Windows clipboard.
This can be very handy for testing a set of filters, because you can easily see
what happens to the text, both before and after.
If you didn’t install this component of
Windows, you can do so by checking it under Accessories
Notepad
Displays NotePad, a small editor useful for
editing plain text files (files that contain no formatting like bold, fonts
etc). This can be very handy for generating test data for a set of filters.
NotePad is automatically installed with Windows.
If you didn’t install this component of
Windows, you can do so by checking it under Accessories
Wordpad
Displays WordPad, a small editor useful for
editing both plain text files (files that contain no formatting like bold, fonts
etc) and Word documents, Rich Text Format (RTF) documents and Windows Write
(WRI) documents. This can be very handy for generating test data for a set of
filters.
If you didn’t install this component of
Windows, you can do so by checking it under Accessories
Character map
Displays Windows
Character Map. This program is usually used to insert special characters into
documents, and it can also be used to determine the ASCII code of a character.
If you didn’t install this component of
Windows, you can do so by checking it under Accessories
Calculator
Displays the Windows Calculator.
If you didn’t install this component of
Windows, you can do so by checking it under Accessories
Filter wizard