I installed Textpad 5 on XP and it is nicely integrated into explorer with a right click option to open in Textpad. I used to use this feature frequently.
The right click option does not appear when I installed it in Vista, however. I would like to see this feature made to work in Vista as well.
I also have a suggestion...when opening a file with textpad it seems like it always defaults to binary view for unknown file types. It's much more likely that an unknown file type be storing ascii data, and I wish it would more frequently default to this. Otherwise I have to open textpad, manually locate the file, switch from "Auto" to "Text" and then open it -- which can become quite tedious.
Textpad 5 - Right click in Vista
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Have you tried the following:
From the Configure menu choose:
1. Preferences
2. General
3. Under the heading "Put shortcuts to TextPad on" check "Context Menu"
4. Click Apply / OK.
With regard to opening unknown file types in binary view, I suggest that you ceck the list of files in class for the Binary Document Class, and delete any that you don't want in the list.
From the Configure menu choose:
1. Preferences
2. "+" sign next to Document classes
3. Click on Binary
I hope this helps.
From the Configure menu choose:
1. Preferences
2. General
3. Under the heading "Put shortcuts to TextPad on" check "Context Menu"
4. Click Apply / OK.
With regard to opening unknown file types in binary view, I suggest that you ceck the list of files in class for the Binary Document Class, and delete any that you don't want in the list.
From the Configure menu choose:
1. Preferences
2. "+" sign next to Document classes
3. Click on Binary
I hope this helps.
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