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Today installed TP5 and I cannot customize the toolbar. e.g. I want to add a button "Close" at the end of the default standard toolbar. It used to be working in TP4 although I cannot add label to it, it doesn't work in TP5 although it has a fancier toolbar editor. Can somebody confirm?

I can confirm this and add a little more detail:

You cannot drag and drop items from the "Commands" tab to the toolbars. You can drag and drop items from the "Commands" tab to the Menu bar ("File, Edit, Search," etc.)

Interestingly, you can drag items from the toolbars to the "Commands" tab to delete them. I am now trying to figure out how to put the "Word Wrap" button back on my Standard toolbar ... Ok, well the "Reset" function works... whew!

As a workaround, you can add the "File" toolbar and it provides a Close?

In any event. I confirm this on my system.

This problem has been fixed for the next upgrade. As long as there are no last minute hitches, it is due to be released in the next few days.

I have been using TextPad for YEARS. I was excited to hear about an upgrade. Not anymore.
I wish that I would have read the Forum before I installed v5!!!
I can not customize the tool bars and I have also found many other bugs.
I trusted you guys.
I am going to have to go backkk to v4.72
I hope that I can recover my configurations.

Us elite dont use the toolbars anyway

Some encouragement, perhaps.

I started using Textpad with 4.72, after a couple years of using a freeware editor called PFE (Professional Editor), paid for it at 4.75 (I think), and have spent so much time working with it, I never considered upgrading, for fear of it turning into something like one of Micro$not's infamous "downgrades".

I apologize for doubting! 5.0 is great for me!

What I do:
Large and small text-to-csv data files. One of my recent ones was a complete Webster's Unabridged, converted to MySQL driven by a search page that allows wildcards in searches. (regexp to follow, when I get a bigger Round-Tuit)

Some of the files have been 7-15 megabytes in length, and Textpad's combination of regexp and macros is the only editor I've found useful, short of chasing a degree in using Emacs.
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I turn large and small text files (books) into HTML pages. From short stories like Sherlock Holmes, to the more adventurous, like a fairly decent copy of "History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire" By Edward Gibbons. Yes, all 6 books, all 9 megabytes. (two weeks work in my spare time)
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It's also my daily HTML editor, used for 99% of that work.

With regards to buttons/customization, it totally missed me. I have written and saved to file many of the macros I use constantly. I find saving them and assigning key sequences for them, much faster as my hands stay on the keyboard, where they belong. I also have written 2 extensive clip libraries for HTML which let me drop in most of the page, and other templates I need.

"Buttons" would require more reliance on the mouse, which just seems to slow things down. I mean, how many people would hire a two-fingered typist? That seems to be what you're doing by relying on the mouse, rather than the keyboard.

Anyway, my forst post on this forum, and I gotta say thanks for an upgrade that kept to what I valued and loved in the original. Carry on.

Fred

This now seems to be resolved in 5.0.2! Thanks!!

FreakyJellyFish wrote:This now seems to be resolved in 5.0.2! Thanks!!

Actually, I think one problem has been replaced with another. In 5.0.3, I can cheerfully add all the doodahs from the Command dialog to any toolbar but I just cannot add it t a menu! It lets me create a new menu, but doesn't let me add a single command to it!

The problem with customizing menus has been confirmed by techsupport. Here's their full reply to my email:

Hello Gautam,

You are right about this, so thanks for bringing it to our attention.


Kind regards,

Stephen MacDonald
Helios Software Solutions
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-----Original Message-----
From: gautampatel@gmail.com [mailto:gautampatel@gmail.com]
Sent: 30 May 2007 13:29
To: support@textpad.com
Subject: TextPad 5.0.3 Bug Report: Cannot add commands to a new menu

From: Gautam Patel
Classification: Bug Report
Version: 5.0.3
Reproducible: 1
Operating System: Windows XP
Service Pack: 2
Printer Model:
Printer Driver:
Message:

I can create a new menu by using the right-click and customize option; but I
cannot add a single command from the Command dialog to that new menu. The
forums report that this was a problem with custom *toolbars* in the previous
release and has now been fixed in 5.0.3; but it now just seems that the
problem has been translocated from custom toolbars to custom menus.

Hopefully, this will be resolved soon.