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View 'source' from browsers

Posted: Wed Nov 27, 2002 5:00 pm
by Jack the Mundane
Does anyone know how to 'nicely' set TextPad as the default viewer when you ask the web browser to "View source".

Now, before you think that I am too much of an idiot, I have set the browser's program path to TextPad, and it opens Textpad and sends the source. But I get new instances of TextPad for each "View source".

So my question really is, "Is there a way to send a source page from a web browser to an already open instance of TextPad?"

Do I need DDE for this, and if so, where and how do you implement?

Thanks

Re: View 'source' from browsers

Posted: Fri Nov 29, 2002 1:11 am
by Robbage
Have you got 'allow multiple instances to run' unchecked in prefs? TP should manage the rest.

Re: View 'source' from browsers

Posted: Sat Nov 30, 2002 8:12 pm
by Jack the Mundane
Yup. That works.

Thanks

(If only everything was that easy...)

Re: View 'source' from browsers

Posted: Mon Dec 02, 2002 5:44 am
by Robbage
Its a common question in this forum :)