Textpad - Option to detect when access is denied due to UAC.

[Assassin]

I believe text-pad should implement a feature where if a file is opening such as in program folder meaning if you open a .txt file and its in an area that requires admin rights you press save and it and it fails to save you have to run textpad as admin then and resave or copy it from desktop

im thinking a good feature would be if textpad is run in non admin mode and then tries to save to a denied file it should automatically make a UAC request come up allowing the user to save instead of having to reopen with admin rights.

This feature would be really useful to me and i know it can be done because ive got my own text editor that i made in VB to see how would this work and its a pretty simple solution

So what do the develops think?

[Leo Davidson]

I would buy 5 more licences if this was implemented.

Been waiting so long for a text editor to get UAC support. UAC has been around for 11 years now and text editors still don't support it.

It's really frustrating to open a file, make some changes, then realise they need elevation to save and to have to save them somewhere else, then find the file and move it over using a file manager. The editor could do the save for us via UAC.

Bonus points if you cache the UAC COM object so we can then ctrl+s additional times in the same file without further UAC prompts, but honestly I would be overjoyed even if there was a UAC prompt per save.

I'd even write the code for you if I had a way to do that.

[blovett]

This is one of the suggestions I was logging on to request. There is a competitor that has this, and it is really useful. I like TextPad so much more, but this would be really handy.