Managing Multiple Instances of TextPad

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Lawrence Dol
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Managing Multiple Instances of TextPad

Post by Lawrence Dol »

Does anyone know if I can achieve the following behavior with TextPad:

1. When shortcut is click a new instance is launched.
2. Explorer ContextMenu->TextPad launches a new instance of TextPad which loads all highlighted files.

That is, when I use the Explorer context menu, I want it to launch a new TextPad window instead of loading the files into the last active window that's already open.

This is the behavior of the "Send To->TextPad" context menu, but using that is a little clumsy, and I often forget, opening a dozen or so files in an already active editor and mixing them up with what I already had opened.

I use Windows 2000 and Windows XP.

-- Lawrence

PS: Please don't just tell me to select "Allow multiple instances to run", since I have that checked already.
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Post by s_reynisson »

Did you try fooling around with the -m switch in your shortcuts? See "Command Line Parameters" in TP's help file. HTH
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Post by Lawrence Dol »

Actually, currently launching shortcuts is fine. It's the context menu which reuses an existing window and I don't want it to.
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