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ikjeft01 wrote:i notice many of the links in the posts are now dead...

Just like TextPad!

do you know when the next maintence release is? Good luck getting an answer to that one! Think yourself lucky that Helios condescended to reply at all! You obviously haven't been around this Forum for long, or you would already know about Helios's mindless refusal to engage with their user base on ...

I followed the link to the graphic, clicked the 'Download' button, and got an error message saying the file has been removed.

Cheers,

dak

I'd like the option (toggled) of automatically generating a full save of a file every time I change anything in it, This is a rather interesting request. How often would you want this full save to be done? After you change a single character? That would potentially generate quite a large number of ...

I have a laptop and a desktop PC. The desktop used to be my main computer, but the laptop has become my primary computer, and I only turn on the desktop when I need to access an accounting application. I had occasion to use a text editor on the desktop PC the other day, and found that I was still ...

G'day Andi,

Go to Configure -> Preferences -> General, and look towards the bottom of the dialog box "Put Shortcuts to TextPad on" section, and place a tick in the box labelled Context Menu.

Cheers,

dak

This enhancement has been asked for many times. Helios, stupidly, maintains a stony silence on what enhancements they are working on. Meanwhile, other editors are surpassing TextPad in features and usability. Helios, and TextPad, has a lot of catching up to do, not the least being to restore ...

I am a bit disappointed by the latest version of Textpad I just installed. Welcome to the club. I'll never understand why Helios took a perfectly good application, with a loyal user base, a user interface that everyone was used to and happy with, and then proceeded to stuff it up. While the user ...

Works for me. Win XP, SP2, TP 5.0.3

Cheers,

dak

ScottMacInnes wrote:I find v5's disabling of Window Tile options when Document Tabs are on a step backwards from v4.7.3

Agreed! I'll never understand why they have fiddled with a user interface that the user base was used to. What were they thinking?

Put me down as a vote for this feature also. I have become so used to it with Firefox, that it feels funny to use an application that doesn't have it.

Cheers,

dak

What I can't understand is why Helios changed things like this. Version 4.7.3 was and is a great text editor with a user interface that we have become used to. (Let's face it, we've had a couple of years to get used to it.) Now they bring out version 5.x, which we all know now is just a beta version ...

jeffy wrote:I found this great tool for converting the text in PDFs to plain text:

http://pricelessware.org/2003/PL2003TEXT.htm#P110

Looks like this utility is no longer available from this site.

It is listed on the front page, but is not available from the Text section.

Cheers,

dak

It worked! I uninstalled, and went through the Registry to delete all references to TextPad. Then I reinstalled TextPad and the dictionaries. The dictionaries still went into a "Textpad 4" folder. Unfortunately, I didn't test the spelling function before I installed the dictionaries, so I don't know ...

Thanks gan.

I was hoping not to have to do this, but it looks like I'll have to bite the bullet. It's going to take me a long time before I can trust Helios again.

Cheers,

dak