Version History

The large toolbar/status bar problem finally solved. Toolbar buttons and status bar font now appear at normal sizes on systems that have the Windows Display properties set to use large fonts. Also didn't happen on my system and a lot of other systems, so very hard to fix (it comes down to just try all kinds of things and ask if it works).

When creating a file, maximizing it, creating a file again and then restoring the files would cause the inactive edit window (the one in the back) to loose it's border icons (for maximizing, closing etc). This one did happen on my system :) Fixed it.

The following bug-fixes where already in the 'newer' 1.1's:

Opening files sometimes didn't work ('Could not open.' alike messages). This is fixed.

The screen font (name & size) is now used when printing.

The text 'Unchanged' in the Status bar stays after opening a file and will not disappear anymore.

Note from January 18 1998: small revision (patched binary) in order to make to following minor modifications: E-mail address and Home Page URL updated, removed E-mail Author menu due to problems it gave (normal e-mail option still available).

Send box now displays text as it should when the Windows Display setting is set to large fonts. Changed a number of things in the Properties box and other places in order to solve the problems that some of you are having when running NotePad+ while Windows is set to use Large fonts. I'm not able to reproduce these problems, but the screen shots you guys sent me where enough to convince me that it is a real problem. Since I'm not able to test the results of the changes I made (the problems with Large fonts strangely enough don't occur on my system) I urge you to give feedback on the results.

Changed behaviour of Replace button in Replace Dialog. Instead of finding and immediately replacing the text to find, it will now find the text on the first click, and replace it on the second.

I made some changes to the program to prevent the irritating updating of the Windows desktop that occurred when opening and creating files.

The Open Dialog will now only follow the path (when 'Open Dialog Follows Path after Open' is checked in your Preferences) when the Open Dialog itself is used to open a file. Opening of files by, for instance, doubleclicking will leave the Open Dialog path to what it is.

Made optimizations to speed up opening/creating files, maximizing/restoring and switching files.

Double clicking on a file while NotePad+ is already running will now result in opening of the file in the already running instance of NotePad+ instead of a new instance that would be started.

To make the above behaviour possible, I made NotePad+ what's technically called a DDE-server. Explorer now communicates with a running instance of NotePad+. It was necessary that the associated file types with the original Notepad were updated to implement DDE. That's why I made an Associations tab sheet in the Preferences box where you can associate files with NotePad+ in an easy way.

Dropping a file on the executable (shortcut) or using Send-To, will now fetch the long name for the directory (as was already done for the file name in these cases). Win95 seems to pass the DOS-name and path when you drop a file the program icon. You should never ever see a DOS file name or path in NotePad+ now (except for the Properties box where the DOS file name is deliberately shown :).

Under the File menu is now the option to save selected text as a file, create a shortcut of the active file and open the containing folder of the active file.

You can now select for yourself how many Recent Files will be kept track of, with a maximum of 16. Created a sub menu for the Recent File list to prevent the File menu from cluttering. Recent File menu now shows only file names, full paths are shown in the status bar when moving over a file name in the Recent File list. Let me know if you like this (I do :). An entry is now added to the recent file menu after a file is closed, instead of after it's opened.

Changed status bar font from Arial to the better readable MS Sans Serif font. First item in status bar now resizes with program window.

You can now decide for yourself whether window position, size and state (maximized/restored) will be saved after closing. It may come in handy to uncheck this option after you've found your 'perfect' window settings.

In the Fonts & Colors box, you are now able to select the Standard Windows Color for the elements (these are the colors as defined in the Windows Display properties). So if you have Windows set up so that your windows have a yellow background with red characters (yuck! just an example :), NotePad+ will follow this behaviour when you set your colors to Window Colors. And you can now use any color your Windows supports, using the Color Palette that was added in this version.

Added a box where you can define your own Open- and Save dialog filters. Saving a file using the Save As function will save with the extension as defined in the selected filter.

Added a Page Setup dialog and a new Printing component. This will let you set margins and print accordingly. I've had reports that NotePad+ produced a division by zero error when printing under NT, I hope this will be solved now with the new Printing component.

Choose your own margin size for the Edit windows. Text just looks better with a little margin on the left.

E-mail the author, or visit the NotePad+ Home Page by just clicking an item under the Help menu.

Fixes bug where Find function would not highlight first string found (very irritating!).

About dialog now checks under what OS the application is running. Skips System Resources when running under NT (NT has unlimited system resources). NotePad+ is now fully NT capable.

Reduced program execubable's size by more than 70kB(!) by removing an unneeded source-code unit that Delphi had automatically added when I was trying some things out before the first release.

Several other (minor) bug-fixes and adjustments. Polished the program a bit more.