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I'd like to add my encouragement to the TextPad programmers to give these Workspace enhancement suggestions high priority. And I'd like to spell out a change that seems to be implicit in many of the suggestions: files should be added to and deleted from a Workspace via explicit "add files to ...

Keith, just so I'm not trying to reinvent a wheel that's already been tried, has the technique described in the MSDN article entitled "Creating a Child Process with Redirected Input and Output" already been tried? I know you say you use an anonymous pipe to collect the output--did you find that you ...

Well, that sounds like a fair challange! But first I'm trying to think through what it means. It is certainly possible to direct keyboard input to a Windows application--I'm typing into an application right now, and TextPad allows input of course. So exactly what is the limitation? Is the problem ...

s_reynisson (above) is pointing out that if you do *not* set the "Capture Output" option for the tool that is running your script (e.g., Perl or Java), then when you run the interpreter for the tool TextPad will launch a separate Command Window, and you will be able to type input into the script and ...

I'm using Perl and would like to be able to run Perl scripts that accept input and produce output. I'd like that input and output to come from and o to a TextPad window. The output part works fine aready, of course, but I can't figure out any way to send input--interactively--to my Perl script. I've ...

I have almost exactly the same problem that Mary does above--I'm running Perl programs within TextPad on a Windows 2000 machine. Works just fine--but I can't input anything from "stdin". In my case, the Perl interpretter treats stdin as always empty, returning empty strings to my Perl program. I'm ...