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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:
- -------------
- 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:
- ---------------------
- 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:
- -------------
- 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:
- --------------------
- 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:
- -------------
- 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:
- -----
- - 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:
- -------------
-
- In This Release:
- ----------------
- 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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