Managing Multiple Instances of TextPad

Lawrence Dol · Post by **Lawrence Dol** » Fri Jun 18, 2004 4:27 pm

Does anyone know if I can achieve the following behavior with TextPad:

1. When shortcut is click a new instance is launched.
2. Explorer ContextMenu->TextPad launches a new instance of TextPad which loads all highlighted files.

That is, when I use the Explorer context menu, I want it to launch a new TextPad window instead of loading the files into the last active window that's already open.

This is the behavior of the "Send To->TextPad" context menu, but using that is a little clumsy, and I often forget, opening a dozen or so files in an already active editor and mixing them up with what I already had opened.

I use Windows 2000 and Windows XP.

-- Lawrence

PS: Please don't just tell me to select "Allow multiple instances to run", since I have that checked already.

s_reynisson · Post by **s_reynisson** » Sun Jun 20, 2004 1:19 am

Did you try fooling around with the -m switch in your shortcuts? See "Command Line Parameters" in TP's help file. HTH

Lawrence Dol · Post by **Lawrence Dol** » Mon Jun 21, 2004 1:56 pm

Actually, currently launching shortcuts is fine. It's the context menu which reuses an existing window and I don't want it to.