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PostPosted: Tue May 23, 2000 3:24 am 
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my son recently wrote this little text editor program and added this alpha/numeric sort feature per my request, i had 200+ trucks to sort out and this obviously saved me quite a bit of time Image another feature i liked was the ability to view and edit more than one document at a time...

his question is this, is there any other feature(s) that you would like to see in a text editor? this could be mtm related.

also if anyone is interested in taking a look at it reply and i will post a link... its all windows based and easy to use.


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PostPosted: Tue May 23, 2000 8:00 am 
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PostPosted: Tue May 23, 2000 2:21 pm 
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Lately I've been using EditPad. It has just about everything I need except a spell checker. Your son might like to take a look at it for the ideas it contains.
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EditPad </center>

The only other thing to add to the sort options is to make sure all stock pods are at the top, fixall too.

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PostPosted: Wed May 24, 2000 2:24 am 
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thanks for the link to edit pad phin, i like the convert feature it has...

thanks for the interest Obe, i will post a link here just as soon as its updated..


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PostPosted: Wed Aug 01, 2001 10:55 am 
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my how time flies Image

HR Editor.zip 179k

no pod sort or spell check... yet


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PostPosted: Wed Aug 01, 2001 1:24 pm 
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What does Network>Send do ?

What does H&R Plastics have to do with this ? You branching out ?

Multiple windows are great (much better than notepad), but I still like the tabs of editpad. As it is, this reminds me of a PSP for text.

The reverse case is kinda fun, but I like the 'titles' too. Might include that in the next version.

Runs solid and stable. Good work.

Oh, what's the HREditorFileFont.fff file for ?

[This message has been edited by Phineus (edited 02-08-2001).]


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PostPosted: Thu Aug 02, 2001 3:24 am 
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>>>What does Network>Send do ?
we have the comps here networked and he uses it to send stuff back and forth for debugging purposes, when its done it will be fully configurable for all comps via ip address, but for now its useless unless your here.

>>>What does H&R Plastics have to do with this ? You branching out ?
Image this is the company that funds his schooling.

>>>The reverse case is kinda fun, but I like the 'titles' too. Might include that in the next version.
no problemo

>>>Runs solid and stable. Good work.
he says thanks and appreciates the feedback... he has several works in progress this being one of them... stay tuned

>>>Oh, what's the HREditorFileFont.fff file for ?
pardon me for my total lack of the proper terminology, but from what I could decipher its what recognizes what type and style of font the document was saved as so the next time its opened its as it was when it was saved.


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PostPosted: Thu Aug 02, 2001 6:38 am 
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>>>reverse case

Great, Then We Can All Type Like GRA General Lee Whenever We Have Something To Post On A Forum.

>>>HREditorFileFont.fff

Pardon Me For My Total Lack Of The Proper Terminology, But From What I Understand That Can Be Saved In The Windows Registry Which Would Kinda Make The Program Directory Look Much Tidier. But What Do I Know Except That It's Easy To Make Extra Work For Others.


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PostPosted: Thu Aug 02, 2001 8:40 am 
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.fff
file font format

...Probably A Stupid Q But Where Did You See The HREditorFileFont.fff Anywhoo.

[edit] (Dammit Now I'm Starting To Sound Like Dr. Seuss)

[This message has been edited by Malibu350 (edited 02-08-2001).]


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PostPosted: Thu Aug 02, 2001 4:27 pm 
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Same folder as HR Editor.exe... which, at the time, was a ram drive so it didn't stick around long anyway.

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PostPosted: Fri Aug 17, 2001 7:54 pm 
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Suggestion : print pages in reverse order.

Word perfect 7 does that. Lately, I've not been using the large programs that come in suites. Big, slow, clunky. Excellent features but they're not always needed for straight forward jobs. And no help for html. (I have the ms suites too but like them less than corel - which impresses me more and more all the time) Anyway, try printing thirty, fifty or a hundred pages on a canon bubble jet. Page one lands face up. Page two lands face up and on top of page one. Once the job is completed, I'm faced with the task of flipping all the pages around so they read front to back instead of the back page first. I still like the tabs for each open document rather than floating windows inside the program. Try having thirty or more docs open at once and you'll see what I mean. Most spread sheets do that too, but at the bottom of the page, rather than the top like editpad. Editpad creates docs on the fly, whereas spread sheets are fixed. A,B,C...AA,BB,CC etc. Anyway, reverse printing would be a priority for me. I still use editpad primarily...cuz of the tabs. But reverse printing, for my non-mtm work, would sure tip the scales. Either that or I goto word perfect for the sake of printing only. Problem with that is I start looking at pagination. I would suggest that you include a line that can be set for page length, or even margins, that way I could see where one page would end and another begins. But I don't like getting caught up like that. I really prefer one long sheet and let the printer do what it has to. Too much time wasted trying to make things fit. While I'm here, just thought I'd let you know I will not be getting the new edit pad. He's got way too much stuff in there now. I think he kind of lost sight of his original goal which was to create a lean and mean text editor. Now he's got hex editing and all sort of other stuff built into it. Color coding html might be nice but not at all necessary. Lastly, forgotten topic or program? No way. Text is everything. I was working tonight and had a couple large print jobs, so I thought I'd come here and let you know what I was thinking. Better do it while it's on my mind. You can get to this in your own good time...when you're finished with binedit. That is, if it, this, is still a work in progress.

More suggestions:

- Word wrap
- Print Preview (I was afraid to click print since I didn't know what would happen. I mean, does it just goto printer or is there a option box). P.S. I just checked out the print thing. There's an option box that contains a wrap option - for the printer, not on screen.
- row and column counts could each have their own block in the status bar. Fixed width is nice for something like that.
- Close
- Exit

One more suggestion.

Either, quick buttons that drop in predefined text at the cursor. Or. definable macro buttons that can be programmed like a quick button but which the user defines what it will dump in the active doc. Either can be added to the existing toolbar, if the buttons there are made smaller. Or on thier own toolbar below the one that's there now.

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Bug report - slow discoveries

Row: 41 Col: 15249
<ul>[*]I start to get a funny vertcal character | at the right side of the page when not at end of line. Also, spaces, lots of them, are padded onto the end of some longer lines.</li>
[*]Update. Doh, that's no vertical line, it's the cursor. Can we get an underline cursor rather than the vertical cursor? Not a priority tho, especially if the problem gets fixed.</li>
[*]Also, I couldn't get to the very end of some lines. I think that's how I got turned around on the line vs cursor thing. Place cursor below the line you want, then arrow key left. It should take you past the carriage return and place you at the end of the previous line. Most times it works but sometimes the cursor ends up in the middle of a word...I don't know if it's the last word or not because I can't go past it. Check, nope, it's not the last word. Scroll right. Using the end key can get the same effect. When I'm in this spot and hit arrow right, the cursor drops down to the next line rather than moving right. Something definitely funny here.</li>[/list]

Bug report - Major hall of mirrors

Still checking out the end of line/cursor problem, I used the scroll bar to move left and right. The lines of text disappeared, then reappeared. The mouse was too quick for me to see what was happening. So, I used the arrow buttons (on the scroll bar, not the key board). LO! There's a second bunch of text further to the right of the first bunch of exactly the same text at the left.


Kudos.

NUM and CAP indicators in the status bar.


edit. put it all in one post


[This message has been edited by Phineus (edited 18-08-2001).]


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PostPosted: Sun Aug 19, 2001 10:50 am 
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When binedit is finished he plans on putting the finishing touches on this one.

Thanks for the help Phin...


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PostPosted: Sun Nov 04, 2001 12:20 pm 
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it all seems very intersting. I havent yet downloaded either pro. Finy, next time dont write a novel or at least dont be afraid to hit the return between thoughts.

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PostPosted: Tue Nov 06, 2001 5:32 am 
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yes very nice text editors. I like editpad's tab features. I like that edit pad converts to a secret code. H&R is nice cause of it's sorting options.

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