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FYI, you can keep the highlight current line, and not have the dashed line that surrounds it by setting the foreground color for "Current Line" to the same color as the background color for "Text". I'm not sure why it behaves this way, but doing this seems to stop Textpad from rendering the dashed ...

Another thing (I haven't found this mentioned yet) I'd like is to have the background color extend to the right edge of the window in the absence of syntax that resets it. My personal use for this is in coloring comments. I like to use the background color to provide a very clear distinction ...

That dashed line thing bugs me too. Fortunately, the latest release of TextPad (4.7.1) allows you to specify the background color of the active line. Now, the dashed line is actually still there, but you can get rid of it by setting the foreground color of the "Current Line" to the same color as the ...

On the contrary, I think that would hamstring the way the search windows work... i.e. Currently, all you need to do to search/replace for a word is highlight it and hit F8. It automatically puts the highlighted word into the Find edit box and you just go from there. (No cutting and pasting or typing ...

I would like to see the window dockable. As for moving it out of the MDI(multiple document interface), the biggest benefit would be that you could move the search and command results off to the side or a 2nd monitor.

I tried the FlashPeak software for auto-completion. Nice...except that it comes with a $50 price tag. That's significantly more than Textpad itself.

I would rather see Texpad implement basic, native auto-completion instead.

Here is the blending code in Delphi Pascal. It should be very easy to translate into C++. (I am assuming that this is the language Textpad is written in.) Here are some basic TColor to RGB and vice-versa conversion functions. Note that TColor in Delphi is basically defined (in hex) as BBGGRR ...

Note: I started writing this post, then realized that I might have a really cool way to do highlighting of the active line without a lot of extra work. I whipped up a program to show how I would like active highlighting to work (since it is much easier to show than to explain). So, what follows in ...

It wasn't done as I intended, but I made it work 99% the way I wanted it to by making a special syntax definition file for the search results window. The only flaw is that I was forced to used the ':' character as the comment delimiter, so it gets colored the same color as the found text. Not a big ...

That type of alignment would come in handy for us software engineers as well in variable declaration sections.

It would be nice if this option was available for the Search Results "document class". It isn't a big issue, but for those who use Find in Files extensively (like I do) it would be a nice option. For example: Without Syntax Highlighting: Searching for: rsMain Bb_rdr.h(335): #define TASK0RS_START ...