NexPad 0.6

[ivan300]

Sorry if this has been posted already I dont have time to read the whole thread

But print and pring preview crash if there is no printer installed

and i have one suggestion, can you make nextpad open a file when it is dragged onto the window not just the tab bar :)

btw great program :woot:

[CrisCr0ss]

is this compatible with .nfo and .diz files?

I know notepad is but at times the nfo art is messed up and only look good in the

DAMNFO viewer.

Also maybe get it to hav an option were it uses Microsoft Office spell check and the wordpad Replace all?

[Veedems Veteran]

Sorry if this has been posted already I dont have time to read the whole thread

But print and pring preview crash if there is no printer installed

and i have one suggestion, can you make nextpad open a file when it is dragged onto the window not just the tab bar :)

btw great program  :woot:

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Bah, thanks, I'll have to look into that printer crash. Hopefully I can bring back the drag file into window area soon. Right now, because of the abnormalities of the .net 2 framework, it leaves a damn file link in the text area that I can't seem to remove programmatically.

is this compatible with .nfo and .diz files?

I know notepad is but at times the nfo art is messed up and only look good in the

DAMNFO viewer.

Also maybe get it to hav an option were it uses Microsoft Office spell check and the wordpad Replace all?

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It should work pretty well with those files. Spell checking will probably not be an option, but replace all already exists in the replace bar.

I really want to get the next version out, but the current beta of .net 2.0 has a huge bug in which mdi form activated events don't always fire. This app relies on that event majorly, so I am stuck until the bug is fixed. It's been documented so MS is aware of it and has supposedly fixed it on internal versions.

[trance]

 private void frmMain_Load(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
 {
 ?// Checking if the process is already running.
 ?if (System.Diagnostics.Process.GetProcessesByName(Application.ProductName).Length > 1)
 ?{
 ? // If application is already running.
 ? MessageBox.Show("An instance of this application is already running");
 ? // Exit the application.
 ? Application.Exit();
 ?}
 ?else
 ?{
 ? // Do all as befor.
 ?}
 }

But there is something right with that code, when there are more than one people on the computer and they use fast user switching, because if one user has your program running the secord user can not use your prog:(mat all.. :(

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You should only check is there is another instance running in the same session, to handle the FUS scenario.

[SlimShady]

Can we still report bugs?

I also have some suggestions.

I was going to tell you to add icons for prettyness, but I now realised again why you didn't already: it's a Notepad replacement.

Edited March 27, 2005 by SlimShady

[Veedems Veteran]

You can report bugs, yes. I will be referring to this thread when I start work on it again. If you are going to report a bug where it crashes saying invalid index, please don't, though. That's a bug caused by the failure of the firing of the activated() event. There's nothing I can do about that until MS fixes it. Like I said, it's been acknowledged by them, so it should be fixed inthe next release. Any other bugs, please do report them.

[SlimShady]

Allright :)

Here they come...

1. Bug: default font size is too big.

Two workarounds available:

- Edit settings.xml and change the dot <fontSize>9.75</fontSize> into a comma.

- Change font settings in the application

2. Bug: Pasting text in Find bar, using Ctrl+V does not work.

Current workaround:

- rightclick in the inputbox and choose paste

3. Bug: Find feature doesn't work 100%

If I have text in the clipboard and paste it and search, it works.

When I then select some other text and press "Next", it flashes the new selected text.

There was also something with an empty inputbox but I can't reproduce that at the moment.

4. Request: when selecting text and launching the Find feature, make the selected text appear in the inputbox

5. Request: when the focus is in the Find inputbox, make pressing ESC close the bar (FireFox style)

6. Request: make a context menu appear when you rightclick a tab. With items: minimize, maximize, restore, close, reload file

7. Request: replace empty "Untitled" tabs with manually opened files.

Can you reduce the flashing (when switching, minimizing, maximizing, closing pads)? Please do if it's possible.

Edited March 27, 2005 by SlimShady

[Veedems Veteran]

1) Default font is size 10 tahoma. I won't go any smaller

2) I'll look at that, not sure why it won't work.

3) Again, will have to look at that. The problem comes with you selecting text when you shouldn't be.

4) Good idea

5) Good idea

6) Funny thing, they are in there, I don't know why they aren't working. I have to look at that. It's probably something small

7) I don't think I'l lchange that behavior.

The flashing is part of .net 2.0 behavior, I'm not sure if I can fix it.

Update: well, for 0.5 I already fixed #6. I have no idea where that one line of code went lol.

[SlimShady]

1) Default font is size 10 tahoma. I won't go any smaller

3) Again, will have to look at that. The problem comes with you selecting text when you shouldn't be.

7) I don't think I'l lchange that behavior.

1) Are you sure the size is 10? Hint: Check the settings.xml in the archive.

3) What if I want to compare or remember a piece of text? That's why I select, so my eyes can focus and remember.

7) Allright. No big deal.

[Veedems Veteran]

3) for three, use the highlight option. That's why I put it in. Ill tweak the behavior some, but its pretty similar to how notepad does it already.

[SlimShady]

3) for three, use the highlight option. That's why I put it in. Ill tweak the behavior some, but its pretty similar to how notepad does it already.

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Allright.

Another suggestion:

Get rid of the Pads menu. Put the 3 first items in the file menu.

There are so many things you could add.

I'll name some:

- Go To Line. Ctrl+G

- Execute/Launch/Start current file. Ctrl+L

- Bookmark lines. F2 = go to next bookmark, Shift+F2 = go to previous bookmark, Ctrl+F2 = toggle bookmark on/off

- convert selected text: uppercase, lowercase, sentence

- File history/ recent files list

- Line: duplicate (Ctrl+D), move up/down (Ctrl+Shift+Up or ...Down), delete (Ctrl+E maybe)

- auto-indent

- (un)indent block of text using (Shift+)TAB

- choice to use spaces instead of tabs for the indenting

- line numbers bar visible left of the window.

[Veedems Veteran]

all of that stuff is not what I want this app to be. I clearly stated I want it to remain a simple piece of software to basically be a notepad with tabs. I don't want all that extra stuff.

[SlimShady]

all of that stuff is not what I want this app to be. I clearly stated I want it to remain a simple piece of software to basically be a notepad with tabs. I don't want all that extra stuff.

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Too bad. Your application looks mature enough to have those features.

I guess if I want something badly, I need to do it myself. I definitely will.

Good luck with your project.

[Veedems Veteran]

It's not "too bad" at all though. There are a billion apps out there, designed by more skilled programmers, that do exactly what you need. I went with the simple approach because its what I like and it's different from all the other "all in one" notepad apps.

[Veedems Veteran]

now that beta 2 fixed the one bug in the framework, I have started development again. I'm going slow with it and have no projected date for release, but the project is, in fact, still alive.

[Schmoove]

Bangbang023 you should revise your settings.xml file.

As fontsize you use a double (9.75 in this case), this can result in pretty weird things.

Some countries use the comma to as a decimal sign, others use a point. In this case when your PC uses a comma it will screw up and blow the text size out of proportions (as it simply reads 975 instead of 9.75).

So in your settings.xml file you can better set it to 10 or something else as long as it is an integer. This way it will never go wrong.

[Veedems Veteran]

I'll have to do that when I ship it, because I set the font size to 10 and it always saves it as 9.75, for whatever reason. Thanks.

[sicburns]

Nice Program , Keep it up (Y)

[SharpGreen]

so when is 0.5 going to be released?

[SharpGreen]

i was just wondering since i have the lastest beta of the framework installed and nexpad doesn't work

[Veedems Veteran]

0.5 won't be release til the framework goes final, I'm thinking. It'll be best that way, for everyone. It will come, I promise. I haven't done much work on it recently, but it has a decent amount of work (for such a small project) in it since 0.4 already, so anything from here on out will be tinkering.

[Veedems Veteran]

i was just wondering since i have the lastest beta of the framework installed and nexpad doesn't work

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bah, contact me personally and I'll take care of you.

[Veedems Veteran]

I have updated 0.5 over the past two days and it seems like it's in a releasable state. Would people be interested in it or should I just wait til VS 2005 goes final?

[Veedems Veteran]

Here's the changelog to help people decide if they want it or not:

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v 0.5

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- Added "Case Sensitive" option to Find and Replace bars

- Added: Pressing "esc" in active textbox closes find/replace bars

- Added: Drag&Drop on input area re-enabled (no longer adds unwanted file link)

- Added: Current line info now displays column info too

- Added: "Go to line" functionality

- Changed: Open/Drag&Drop file onto blank, unused pad now uses existing pad instead

      of creating a new one

- Fixed: Context menu for tabs would not show on right click

- Fixed: "Activated" child form event would not trigger (framework beta bug)

- Fixed: Could not ctrl+v to paste text into find/replace text boxes (would paste into pad)

- Fixed: Changing font would unhighlight links

- Fixed: Trying to Print/Print Preview without printer would crash app instead of giving error

- Fixed: Print Preview would send NexPad to back of z-order

- Cleanup: Rewrote find and replace functions for better efficiency

- Cleanup: Removed unused variables from buttonPushed

- Cleanup: Changed keyup to selectionchanged for textinfo call

- Cleanup: Removed excessive if statements from highlight function

[SharpGreen]

I think you should release it now.