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Toggle view?

Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2008 11:10 am
by BrianA
Hi

Is there a way to toggle between text and binary views of a file?

Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2008 11:19 am
by ACRobin
Easy, open the file twice - once as and editable text view and the other in the read only binary view.
Then you can have tabbed documents, use the document selector or CTRL+Tab - or split the screen..........

Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2008 11:35 am
by BrianA
Hmm, but that's fiddly. I was looking for a simple toggle ...

write an item in Tools>External Tools to do it

Posted: Fri Aug 14, 2009 8:33 pm
by Lawrence
Go to TextPad preferences and tools. Then:
1. add a program, name it something like "re-open in Binary"
2. Set the command to c:\program files\textpad 5\textpad.exe
3. Set parameters to $File(0x00).
4. Set initial folder to $FileDir.
5. Apply
Now apply and check under External Tools. You should have an item that will re-open the currently open file in binary. I didn't try it but change #3 to $File(0) and it should reopen a binary file in ascii.