Creating a "Save As" toolbar

insitus · Post by **insitus** » Sat May 30, 2009 8:40 pm

I use "save as" fucntion a lot.
Is there anyway to create a toolbar for save-as?
Using File>Save As took too much time.
James

Bob Hansen · Post by **Bob Hansen** » Sun May 31, 2009 1:02 am

Is a hot key faster than two mouse clicks?

If yes, then make a macro for File/Save As, and assign a hot key to the macro

insitus · Post by **insitus** » Sun May 31, 2009 3:00 am

That is a good idea.
But I am not that computer literate.
Could you please give me how to set up a macro for Save As?
I need that hot key badly.
Thank you. James

Bob Hansen · Post by **Bob Hansen** » Sun May 31, 2009 3:04 am

Don't need a macro. Hot key already exists: F12 is Save As

insitus · Post by **insitus** » Sun May 31, 2009 3:17 am

Thank you. F12 worked nicely.
That's great. I should have known that hot key 10 years ago.

BTW, where is the list of hot keys for TextPad. I do not see in Help file.
James

Bob Hansen · Post by **Bob Hansen** » Sun May 31, 2009 3:45 am

From the Main Menu:

Configure/Preferences/Keyboard/
Under Categories, select All
Click on List button

This will dump a file listing all of the hot keys. You can also create your own Hot Keys here, and/or modify the existing ones.

Also look on Menu Drop downs to see many of the Hot Keys next to the commands, for example File/Save As shows F12.

insitus · Post by **insitus** » Sun May 31, 2009 8:34 am

Thank you.
I got it.

BTW, When I clicked on All >List, too many hot keys are set.
I do not need that many hot keys but just a few.

How can I reset (or cancel) hot keys? James

Bob Hansen · Post by **Bob Hansen** » Sun May 31, 2009 2:37 pm

If you want to remove any Hot Keys, then do this:

From the Main Menu:
Configure/Preferences/Keyboard
Select a choice under Categories
Select your choice under Commands. You will see the current value in the Current Keys field.
Click on Remove.
Apply and OK your way out.

I am curious why you would want to remove a lot of hot keys?

I have been using TextPad since before 2000 and never had a need to remove any hot key. I don't believe they cause any performance overhead, and they are only active within the TextPad program, they are not system wide, so no other programs will inherit the commands.

insitus · Post by **insitus** » Sun May 31, 2009 6:50 pm

I am worried about possible conflicts with hotkeys for other programs.
I only need Find and SaveAs hotkeys for tTextPad.
James

Bob Hansen · Post by **Bob Hansen** » Sun May 31, 2009 10:13 pm

Not to worry. As I noted in my earlier reply:

"... they are only active within the TextPad program, they are not system wide, so no other programs will inherit the commands."

ACRobin · Post by **ACRobin** » Mon Jun 01, 2009 8:55 am

For information Helios did add a "Save As" button than you can customise the standard tool bar with - this after losing the functionality after TP5.0 came out with the old save button (double click to a save as).

CWeb · Post by **CWeb** » Wed Dec 08, 2010 3:33 pm

Bob Hansen wrote:Is a hot key faster than two mouse clicks?

If yes, then make a macro for File/Save As, and assign a hot key to the macro

Is there a way to accomplish this? The difficulty I cannot surmount in attempting to create a File/Save As macro is stopping the macro recorder while the Save As dialog is open. Consequently, you must Save or Cancel in order to stop the recorder.

I'm simply looking for a way to launch the Save As dialog at the end of my macro, so I can, at that point, decide upon filename and save location.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.