default window size

[jdeighan]

I recently got a widescreen monitor (1680 x 1050). Now, whenever I open a file in TextPad, it's wide as hell. There's usually nothing in the right-hand half of the window, and I have to manually make it narrower. Is there some way to get it to open windows that aren't so wide?

[bveldkamp]

TextPad remembers it's size, so if you adjust the windowsize and then close and restart TP it should be OK.

[jdeighan]

You're misunderstanding. I'm not talking about the size of the TextPad window (the MDI window?), but the window that each individual file opens in. It would be great if TextPad remembered their size, or I could set a default size for any file I open.

[bveldkamp]

Oh, I see. There seems to be a default size for new child windows (if they're not maximized), and it looks like this size depends on the size of the main window. At leat they're always smaller than the main window, so if you reduce the main window's size enough, you should be fine.

[jdeighan]

Thanks - you're entirely correct. If I make my main window size smaller, the child windows also come up smaller. Of course, that means that I can't fully utilize my big new monitor. When I'm editing source code, I'd prefer to have the main window take up the whole screen. It seems silly for TextPad to open a window that's 165 character columns wide when all my text files are less than 78 characters wide (which I do intentionally so lines won't wrap on my printer). It would be nice to be able to control the size of child windows that I open somehow.

[OnlyTextPad]

In Windows XP
If you keep the Shift key pressed while clicking the x to close a Window - The next time you would open a Window it will remember the current size...