A Collection of Useful Tools

[CyberSlug]

Newest update:: Okay, so AutoIt 3.0.100 was officially released today (Feb 29). I haven't forgotten about this thread, so I post something soon. (I actually have some my major tools complete!)


Another Update: AutoIt v3--the scripting language used to write my scripts--is approaching final release. I'm going to wait until AutoIt's official version before releasing updates. It should not be too much longer!

UPDATE: Okay, maybe by *Jan 1st* I'll have a new post. I'm still working out a few bugs in some scripts.

Update--13 Dec--I'll have new/improved tools posted by Christmas:
One-button Compile, Paginate (show page breaks), and some others plus
Bug-fixes to existing tools

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(last modified 15 November 2003) - philipgump AT yahoo DOT com

Nov 15: Added Font tools (size increase, decrease, set; typeface cycle)
Nov 14: Added 'Emacs-like Brace Matching' and 'Reload Files in Sorted Order'
Nov 12: Original Version

I've written a collection of tools for TextPad, and I thought I'd share them.

These tools were tested on the English version of TextPad 4.7.2 on Windows XP Pro sp1; source code (AutoItv3 sripting language) is included, so you can make changes if the tools do not work out of the box.

Please post feedback in this thread.
http://students.cec.wustl.edu/~plg1/TextPadTools.zip (212 KB download)


Description of tools in order of usefulness (feel free to debate this):

* One-button Comment: comment out any block of code with the "right" symbol
* One-button Uncomment: uncomment the code block

* Emacs-like Parentheses Matching: supports only () currently
* Emacs-like Brace Matching: supports {}

* Auto spell-check as you type: SYN file for highlighting misspelled words
* Add to SpellingSyn: easily add words to the aforementioned SYN file
* TextPad Spell Check: run spell check on syntax colored files (TextPad's built-in speller doesn't really work on syntax colored files...)

* Font tools: Increase or decrease the current font size, specify a new size, or cycle through a set of typefaces you specify!

* Reload Files in sorted order: slow but gets the job done
- Reload Syn File: easily refresh the syn file for the active document

- Tool for Unsaved Files: lets you run a program on an unsaved file...

- Bookmark Replace: perform replace operation with scope = bookmarked lines

- binaryMode: Display active document as binary (hex) mode

- TextPad Titlebar: removes "TextPad -" from TextPad's titlebar (note: using this program may cause some of my other tools to not work)

TOOLS ARE PROVIDED AS IS. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK! I'LL UPDATE THESE TOOLS AS MY TIME PERMITS.

[Bob Hansen]

Nice collection. Thanks for sharing.

Suggest submitting them to the Add-Ons page for TextPad so others can find them withoug reading this thread.