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Can anyone point me to information on adding functionality in the form of add-ons to TextPad?

Thanks!

On the top of this page you see a dark-yellow bar.
Within this bar is a link named Add-ons (near the right-hand edge of the bar).
Click on it and you will see a big lot of add-ons.
Installation instructions are either given for each single add-on (sometimes in a readme-file which you get after downloading and unzipping the add-on) or for a group of add-ons (e.g. syntax files) on the page from which you start the download.

Andreas

I'm more looking for any info on creating add-ons. I have a number of ideas that I'd like to add, but I know that your deve team is probably over loaded.

Thanks!

What are you interested in doing? Macro development? Tool development? Clip-libraries? Syntax definitions?

You might want to download some existing add-ons to see what they can do, which might give you a clue to how you can do it yourself.

The other thing to do is to look in the TextPad help documentation, which is a good starting point for all these topics. In particular, there is a whole list of topics underneath the "How To" branch, as well as under the "Reference Information" branch.

If you have speciic questions on macros/tools/clips/syntax/... that are not answered in the help documentation, ask them to us in the forum!

:' )

Jeff
http://www.jeffyjeffy.com/textpad

Sorry for responding so late - our ISP disconnected us for some hours!

Sorry for misunderstanding your question - Jeff Epstein has said most of what I would say now that I understand your question.

One point: tools:
you can use any program as a textpad tool if it takes command line parameters (as far as parameters are needed) and writes its output to stdout.

Andreas

Is there any way to get textpad to respond to another program, in terms of opening specific files? What I have in mind is this:
user clicks on a tool, sending a filename to an outside program.
The program examines the file name, and based on the file name opens another file. This would be very useful to me, because I often open files that are logically linked together, but it needs to be dynamically evaluted rather than put into workgroups due to the exceedingly large number of possible combinations. The logic is easy to write in a language like perl, but not really suitable for a macro. This seems like it would be pretty straightforward using, for example, OLE, but I do not think textpad exposes an OLE interface.

Hi,

I created a clip file and saved it. It showed up on the clip library menu but disappeared when I started Textpad again. I have the latest version (4.4.1) which I downloaded a few days ago. Have there been any problems with this?

Cam