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I know this topic has been appearing from time to time without any answer. I don't want to add to this bug's "noise". I'd rather like to report my findings, hoping that it could help Textpad developpers find the solution.

There're many ways to open a file inside TextPad. Here are three of them:

1 ...

OK, I see what it's used for.

There's a workaround (hope the developer is reading the forum):
instead of keeping the handle to directory, TextPad could hold the string of the path of working directory, ie "X:\dir1\dir2\...\dirN\".

So when a user click the open button, Textpad checks if this ...

Oh I see

So it's really a bug. Because it doesn't make sense to hold on a "working folder" when there's no more active document.

Does it hurt to disable such option? I mean, what's this working folder supposed for?

Suppose a file, X:\dir1\dir2\...\dirN\file.txt, is opened in TextPad. Even if the file is closed within TextPad, the whole path, ie X:\dir1\dir2\...\dirN\, is still open. This is checked against using Process Explorer and it's clear that the handle to that directory isn't released.

In some ...

I've posted a reply in
http://www.textpad.info/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5603

What're your opinions?

I'd posted a question some time ago in another forum:
http://www.textpad.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6034

I've just got a reply that this one is relevant. Indeed, it's relevant.

I've noticed two things:

1) If I guess correctly, the HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT behaves similarly to
C:\Document and Settings ...

Well, actually, I knew that. But that only adds a document class to HKEY_CURRENT_USER. If there're a lot of users, or if there're a lot of specific document classes, this is still quite annoying.

I've tried to put it in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\.DEFAULT\....
but that doesn't help.

Still no answer?

Not even some fiddling in some .ini file or the registry?

When creating a new document class (as written in the FAQ) TextPad actually creates a document class for the current user in NT platforms. When we switch to another user session, we have to create the same document class again.

Is there a way to create system-wide document class so that no matter ...

I would say it's broken ......

I saw that you've also posted in this thread as well.

I use Compare It! (http://www.grigsoft.com/)

I found it a lot nicer than TextPad's compare, esp your could Send files to it for comparison. And its comparison algo is quite elaborated. Very handy.

I've got a screenshot, but I don't know how to upload the image in this forum

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