V. 5.03 Window Tile issue work around

[Ofer Brum]

Hi guys,

As others already posted here, the windows tile change taken in V. 5.03 has been frustrating many.

I've found that adding a custom 'View\Document tabs' command to the 'Window' toolbar made the window tiling process manageable again

http://www.wikifortio.com/715387/TextPad_tile.PNG

Regards,
Ofer Brum, Israel

[dak]

I followed the link to the graphic, clicked the 'Download' button, and got an error message saying the file has been removed.

Cheers,

dak

[mrtemple]

1) Right click on the toolbar

2) Choose Customize

3) Click the Commands tab

4) Click the View category

5) Click and hold the Document Tabs command

6) Move your mouse (while clicked still) to the toolbar

7) Let go of your mouse click to place the new toolbar button

8) Click the new toolbar button

Alternatively, you can always go to the View - Document Tabs menu. :D

[Ken Grace]

I'm missing the point. With tabs selected tiling is not an option. Deselect tabs and tiling is available. Tile the windows and reselect tabs and the windows go back to full screen.

That's the logical output from the way the programme is structured. Am I supposed to see something else?

k

[mrunder]

1 ) Right click on the toolbar
2 ) Choose Customize
3 ) Click the Commands tab
4 ) Click the View category
5 ) Click and hold the Document Tabs command
6 ) Move your mouse (while clicked still) to the toolbar
7 ) Let go of your mouse click to place the new toolbar button
8 ) Click the new toolbar button
Alternatively, you can always go to the View - Document Tabs menu.

When Adobe Acrobat upgraded from 5 to 6, those of us that routinely used Acrobat to create .pdf form documents found that what used to take 5 keystrokes to do, now took 12 mouse clicks to accomplish the same thing!

MrTemple left out one other option, unistall 5.03 and revert back to 4.73 (that's what I did with Adobe, and what I'll be doing with Textpad).

I have to say, after waiting for SO long for a new version of TextPad (a software program I use every single day), this new "feature" is horrible! PLEASE Helios, bring back the old-style tabs & windows!

MrUnder
NC, USA

[bigred]

I live in TextPad 8-11 hours a day and have for years.

The success of Eclipse notwithstanding, the trend in human interfaces is away from frames. I don't mind it as an option, but it should also be optional to return to the "everything (Tool results, Search results, etc.) is a document" interface. The lack of simply pressing the "Enter" key on an error in the 'Tool results' document taking me directly to the error line in my Java code without further keystrokes or mouse clicks is particularly painful. Without this whole frame vs. documents thing being fixed, I too will have to revert to an earlier version.

Also, there is now some kind of problem with the file-in-use locking mechanism. During normal use in Windows XP Pro, after all visual instances of TextPad have been closed, sometimes a TextPad process remains in the background and keeps the files locked. Loading a new TextPad instance and trying to access the file(s) will result in a file-locked error. The "hidden" TextPad instance has to be located and killed manually with the Task Manager in order to proceed as usual. Anybody else seeing this?

Lastly, it seems that version 5.0.3 sometimes doesn't remember its size and position on the display when going from one execution to another. Sometimes it does. Is there a reliable way to fix this?

I sure hope that these things can be fixed and that I can get back my good ol' TextPad interface ... just truly "new and improved." I really don't want to be pushed into the arms of Eclipse or Netbeans or other overweight IDE!

Regards.