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Why cant I see any colors in my code even though the configuration is correct? I do remember that it used to work at one point of time and then they disappeared and will not come back even though I tried to re-install the whole program again.
Can someone help me?

I will try to help you set the colors.
1. click on CONFIGURE,PREFERENCES,DOCUMENT CLASSES
2. click on your editor or the default
3. click on colors
select your colors. Once the colors are selected click on APPLY.
4. The colors that you selected should be displayed now.
5. Exit TextPad and re-start it to make sure the colors are what you
selected.

I have the same problem and have not been able to get the colors to show up. I have a licensed copy and I can't get it to work. I've configured and reconfigured and nothing changes!

Any other ideas as to what could be going on?

Thanks.

I am having the same problem.

This is a response I generously got from someone that solved my problem. I thought I would post it for people to reference in the future:

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I think I found out what the fix is. Go to your Textpad, Configure,
Preferences, Document Classes, <Document Type, in my case Java>, Syntax.

Here see if your syntax definition file is defined. Otherwise pick one
from the drop down for your Document Type. And say OK. This should work.
It fixed my problem.
Good Luck

-Prashanthi
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I'm having the same problem -- I'm a new user and can't get the special colors to be displayed even though I followed the directions in the previous messages.

Is there another way to set the colors?

Thanks,

/ Gary E.

I am a moderately experience user and I found I had the same problem. I was editing multiple .syn files, (esp. perl3update.syn) and found that some changes were being reflected, while others were having no effect.

Eventually, I tracked down the problem as follows:

I was editing the syntax files
"c:\program files\textpad 4\samples\syn.syn"
"c:\program files\textpad 4\samples\perl3update.syn"

There was also a file called
"c:\windows\application Data\textPad\syntax\perl3update.syn"

Changes to syn.syn took effect as expected.

Changes to perl3update.syn (in samples) were not working, because the per3update.syn in the application data path superceded the samples path.

Solution: make sure there is only 1 *.syn file on your system with a given name, and set the configuration to point to this file (as described previously in this thread).

Reinstalling the whole program alone probably won't fix this problem, as the uninstall won't go find & delete any stray .syn files.

Hope this helps,
James.