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Hello folks,

Does anyone out there know what registry patch is available that will allow me to pre-populate the GUI dropdown that appears in Tools::Run::Command, so that it matches an exact list of pre-defined apps of my own choosing, instead of just the history of apps that I've already run?

This would be for the latest version of TextPad.

thanks in andvance for any infos.

The toolbar has a Configure menu command, that has a drop-down labeled Preferences, which gets you a dialog box. In the tree-view list box on the left select Tools.

At that point there is a button in the top right corner labeled Add. Use it and you just give it the path to the program and so on following prompts. Once it is in place command line paramaters and so on can be accessed by following the tree-view on the left to the new tool you just installed.

Hi Nicholas Jordan,

Thanks for the reply. I guess I should clarify that I was looking for a way to do it via registry so I could autopopulate the dropdown list automatically via script. (eg a windows script host file that uses reg.write and so forth).

Yeah, the Configure menu works great. Thanks for the walk through, it's definitely good for new textpad users to have that.

Cheers,

in the TexPad Online Help there is a description how to transfer configurations from one PC to another
=> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Helios\TextPad 4 (still using v4.7.3)
look for \Tools
RegEdit.exe => goto \Tools, export it to MyTools.reg

=> MyTools.reg looks like

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Helios\TextPad 4\Tools\8]
"Properties"=hex:00,00,00,00,66,80,00,00,44,00,00,00
"MenuText"="TagBack"
"Command"="C:\\Programm\\CTags\\FindTag.exe"
"Parameters"="-back"
"Folder"="$FileDir"
"RE"=""

hope this helps

Wolfgang

sorry
\Run, not \Tools
=> first once fill in the commands you would like to have
then export registry
Wolfgang