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Has any other third party developers used my technique to turn TextPad into an IDE?

Update... Although I'm originally creating this utility for my language mainly. I'm also considering selling the source code to this utility to interested parties/businesses who needs to make TextPad a true IDE, especially scripting languages developed from scratch. Opinions? Please remember, no mod...

Usually, compiling a C program within TextPad is easy if you study yourself on how to make a custom tool in TextPad. You can even make it a DOS batch file that automatically searches for a makefile in the same directory as the C program, and compile using that makefile. (A simple change to the DOS ....

You can write a third-party utility to accomplish approximately 1/2 to about 3/4ths of your request, by using "TextPad API" techniques that I have successfully tested: http://textpad.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=18311 Debugger features should be built into TextPad, however, the good news is t...

And.... if any corporations take my ideas about hooking TextPad into IDE (whether TextPad themselves, SUN, or another third party) ....please don't forget to mention my name. I'd like due credit, even if I'm not paid for this idea :) You can find my email address via my personal homepage website lin...

Essential reading: Microsoft: About Hooks This is necessary if you want to capture keys globally. Basically, a brute-force method of overriding certain keys in TextPad. These hooks can also allow you to continually monitor the Windows clipboard (perfect for making TextPad support Variable Watch). Th...

Actually, it would be possible to make a "glue" wrapper utility to make TextPad an Eclipse plug-in. You would need to write the wrapper program though, and the wrapper needs to be an Eclipse-compatible plugin, but it would spawn TextPad. In fact, TextPad can even be an IDE itself now: Plea...

It's now possible to make TextPad an IDE. Please see:
http://textpad.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5682

I found out a way to turn TextPad into an IDE; there are enough hooks in TextPad to workaround, to cover all the debugger essentials. These hooks were not meant to turn TextPad into a real IDE, however they are suitable and successfully work in turning TextPad into a real IDE with single-step/breakp...

Amazingly, TextPad is so powerful -- you can turn TextPad into a full debugging IDE just by writing a custom utility! This following technique is successful: http://textpad.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5682 You do have to be a programmer, because this requires writing a simple background Windows utilit...

Just registered TextPad (after using it for a long time, go figure -- I should have registered much earlier but my old copy was so stable and I never bothered to visit TextPad's website). I just discovered this forum. Have been a programmer for almost 20 years, and am writing a programming-language ...