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Save and restore settings
Posted: Tue Apr 20, 2004 8:11 pm
by dwelch
How does one go about saving and restoring settings. From colors to tab preferences, etc. Say when you have textpad on two machines or, are re-installing a machine? It is a bit painful to have to go through all of the menus and screens for each install...
David
Put me down for another vote for TextPad for Linux, syntax highlight does not work under Wine which makes TextPad a bit painful to use (now that I come to rely on syntax highlighting). (even vi does syntax highlighting)...
Re: Save and restore settings
Posted: Tue Apr 20, 2004 8:20 pm
by s_reynisson
Objection, asked and answered
here.
dwelch wrote:How does one go about saving and restoring settings. From colors to tab preferences, etc. Say when you have textpad on two machines or, are re-installing a machine? It is a bit painful to have to go through all of the menus and screens for each install...
Posted: Wed Apr 21, 2004 4:24 am
by BryceS
Hi,
In the past when I've wanted to do this I've just found the textpad key in the registry, exported it to a file, and then imported that on the other machine.
so, in Regedt32.exe go to key
HKCU\Software\Helios\Textpad 4
export the entire key.
on other machine in regedt32.exe highlight the above Textpad 4 key and choose import - find file and that should do it.
You'll need textpad to be installed in the same location on both machines, especially your 'folders' so textpad can find macros, etc. You'll have to copy over custom macros, etc to other machine as well.
Good luck.
Regards,
Bryce Stenberg
(Harness Racing New Zealand computer dept.)
Export / Impoert Settings
Posted: Tue May 18, 2004 6:03 am
by ourbach
My company doesn't alows the usage of regedit. Has anyone an idea how to export the settings in such a case?
I just got a new pc and need to move my settings on it.
Thanks a lott for help.
Posted: Tue May 18, 2004 9:45 pm
by BryceS
Hi,
If your running XP (or later) there is a built in command 'reg.exe'.
To export key try command like:
reg export HKCU\SOFTWARE\Helios\TextPad4 MySaveFile.reg
To add it to registry:
reg import MySaveFile.reg
Your company may not have blocked access to the 'reg' command, and hopefully you have permissions to add the the hkey_current_user registry key.
Good luck,
Bryce Stenberg
(Harness Racing New Zealand computer dept.)