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Your description of what you are trying to do helps a lot, and it makes sense, but the best answer probably has little to do with TextPad, and more to do with your other software. In order to use DDE to control your software, you will need to know the available DDE commands that your software suppor...

The context of your question is not entirely clear, because it emphasizes DDE without emphasizing specifically a step-by-step description of what you are trying to do. You can use TextPad to open a PDF in a few different ways, each of which works without using DDE. One way is to include a link to th...

This is covered in the TextPad help under "How to Run Other Programs" To find it, open textpad help and type in the phrase you see above. Include the quotes. Once you have assigned an external program to run from tools, just say 'view toolbar' from the view menu. Your configuration will lo...

You sound pretty desperate for this feature ... If you are a serious user of macros, especially for doing admin work on one or more machines, please consider using TextPad in combination with any of the numerous scripting languages that are freely available for Windows. (python, perl, ruby, jscript,...

Your suggestion is a good one, and it has been considered by
*many* other people. In other words, you are not alone

http://www.textpad.info/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4890

The feature known as "Code Folding" is definitely a favorite out there that many would like to see in TextPad. Although this feature is not available currently, there is a workaround. If you put a unique string at the beginning of each "section" of your code, you can instantly 'j...

There is a workaround that gives you this functionality. It is posted in the TIPS section.

Using one keystroke to comment out any type of code
http://www.textpad.info/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5791

XML FORMATTED CLIP LIBRARIES One thing I should disclose, I actually *liked* the idea of XML markup for a clip library, that is, until I actually: 1) got to work on developing one; and 2) tried using one that was already developed (see JEdit.org and search for XInsert plugin). XML seems perfect for ...

For the person who said they wanted to ditch MS Word as an outliner, you may want to look at JEdit (www.JEdit.org). As for JEdit: It supports Code Folding. It supports Custom Folds (using regular expressions). It supports Folding based on Indentation (no need to specify special syntax) It doesn't co...

Currently, TextPad allows you to open a file to a specific line number if you press ctrl+shift+g on a properly formatted link: ### here we invoke the GetUserName() function ### which is documented at ### href="c:/docs/myprogs/FooProgram.scu(389)" GetUserName() (Using this fake code as an e...

Good suggestions, and you are not (by far) the only person who thinks these things would be a good idea. Here are some points that you may want to consider. NESTED CLIP LIBRARY This is doable, but it requires a bit of extra work, and it can be just as cumbersome as the 'no depth' system that is in p...

Yes, that would be a useful feature indeed. Makes one wonder what goes on behind the scenes to cause such a thing to be left out? hmmmm.... But for now, there is a sort of inelegant way to accomplish what you want in TextPad. See ... One Button to comment out ANY type of code! (Version 2) One Button...

Cyberslug already addressed this limitation in TextPad, but some people are unwilling or unable to install and learn AutoIt. This solution accomplishes the same thing, without requiring any third party application, it is pure Textpad. The post is a bit long, so the short version is: use a macro in c...

The textpad website says that text can be inserted into TextPad using DDE Insert, but there are no examples or explanation (that I can find) showing how to do this.

Please someone give a simple example of this, just a simple "hello world" from any DDE insert example would be a start.

Many times it is useful to immediately jump to a different location in separate file while working in TextPad. For example, this topic shows one situation where you may want to do this. You can also get similar functionality by using pressing ... [ctrl+shift+G] ... on any line in a text file that ha...