Some Old Questions

[Beverly Howard]

Some long running questions that I finally have time to ask.

I currently need to use Textpad daily to view a series of generated text files with extremely long filenames (which I have no control over.) However, after I have opened one of these files, the entire file "pulldown" menu is disabled as is widened beyond the screen limit. (I have a gif image of this that I can send... but where?)

Is it possible to toggle a file view to binary (hex) view without exiting the file, navigating to the file with the open dialog and reloading it?

Is there a way to configure the ascii characters to include _all_ of the low characters? Yep, I need em regularly for print issues, plus the fact that I know them all only by their <Control> names rather than the <printer> names. At the moment, it's easier to switch to the ascii table in another app than to use your's (something bout old dogs and new tricks applies here

Does anyone have a way to find html "match brackets?"

And, finally, is there any way to stop Textpad from executing that loud startling "critical stop" sound wave when I scroll to the end of the document? (I need my sleep!)

[Beverly Howard]

On a random basis, I encounter a problem that if I do a "send to TextPad" TextPad asks multiple times if it sould create new documents (which are actually folder names)

It appears to be associated with folders which have spaces in their names or otherwise qualify as "long filenames"

Any enlightment appreciated.

Beverly Howard

[ravital]

Beverly, I just stumbled on the solution to this:

In the file associations screen (on my system it's in Explorer ->tools menu -> file types), for the .txt extension, you will see that the "open" action has a line like this:

"C:\program files\yaddayadda\texptad 4\textpad.exe" %1

Add a set of double quotes around the %1 like this:

"C:\program files\yaddayadda\texptad 4\textpad.exe" "%1"

Solved the problem on my end.