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[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] shamasis:
Thanks.

Guess what drives the world of software??? It is people as good as you. I am not flattering, but its rather a huge fact that the trouble you took to use and comment on the software more than motivates me (or anyone else for that matter) to develop even better softwares.

Rather I should say "Thank You" for your time and effort to appreciate someone. :)

Back to work:

Yes, there is a kind of file-size limitation. But I am yet to find out the exact value. It tends too vary between devices :( .

Nevertheless, it is a limitation/bug of DOTNET CF 2.0 . DOTNET CF 3.5 too has this problem (of displaying 1/3rd of the available text space,) but at a reduced level. [Doing any workaround these bugs/limitations might increase file size / memory consumption / load time.]

Next on line: I am thinking about implementing (1) Find and Replace, (2) Tabbed Documents, (3) Remember last used program settings.

After these are done, the Notepad will become somewhat finalized and would have almost all features that can be pushed inside a small and fast-loading app.

Last and the Best... I want to make it "skinnable", so that I can make it look like Diamond, etc (or any user can make their skins.)

... however... my PRIMARY GOAL still remains : FAST, BUG-FREE, SMALL/LIGHT, ALL-PURPOSE Text editor!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] joemanb:
The filesize limitation really isn't that big of a deal. Most compact editors on WM have some sort of filesize limitation. I do most of my editing of big files on my PC.

Excellent! Keep up the good work! Thank You.

J03M4N
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] shamasis:
Updated version 1.3

New version released. (See topic started post.)

Added a new "Edit" Menu.

Insert Date feature.

Integrates with File Explorers' "open with" and "send to" features.

Remembers last used settings.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] rubbish.guy:
:) thx for great software
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] hanackin:
hi!

this is a great idea but isn't it possible to integrate it into a cab file and to set it as the default program during the install for txt files :D

thanks fot his app dude ;)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] shamasis:
thanks a ton for your appreciation.

yes. I will can it up and associate with text

files in my next release.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] torpie13:
Hi,

How about:

1- How about tab browsing for switching from opened files easily

2- Search & replace (With mach case/ Replace/ReplaceAll)

3- Opening option *.txt *.log *.xml *.htm *.html and all known format (txt + log + xml +html + htm), *.*

Thanx alot for your hard work.

BTW I don't think that the file size matters, but the memory in use does.

Great app :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Blowfish64:
So I'm not entirely sure why you've re-invented the wheel since Tillanosoft Notepad is almost exactly the same as yours is now, but if you are looking to improve, I think many of the suggestions already mentioned would be great additions. Also, I absolutely HATE the default WM "save as" feature where it restricts where you can save files to the "My Documents" folder in main memory or a folder only 1 step removed from the root on storage card. Could you please implement a decent tree view for saving/opening?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] shamasis:
It already has the *.log, xml, html and *.* filters added to open and save dialogs.

Search and Replace is up next. After this Tabbed Browsing.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] shamasis:
Well... I did not re-invent the wheel. This is my first PPC app. Though I am over 8 years into programming, PPC is a new domain. Hence, I wanted to start off with something simple... yet with a purpose.

The purpose is to build a fast and compatible Text Editor on DOTNET platform.

But the main fun will be the release of Notepad for HTC Diamond... and you will get to see the wheel spin then!! :p :p ;
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] shamasis:
I have added Find and Replace feature. Kindly test it and let me know if its release-worthy.

Simply click File->Find to enable Find and Replace.

Will cab it up and release it, when someone gives me the word go! ;-)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Blowfish64:
The word is go ;). Hope you can work on a better save function than the crap default WM one that's on there now. Then this program would be great.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] :
i love this program, small but powerful, very very nice
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] PapaDocta:
indeed a very nice notepad... a small request if you can change how the Open works. instead of searching for all files if it could show a tree of files.. would be great.

about v1.4 the find function works but it doesn't highlight the word you are looking for which makes is a bit hard to find what you want.

keep up the good work and this is the best notepad i have ever used because it supports Unicode ;) it would be nice if it could be associated with all txt files.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] _wizo_:
Nice app, thank you.

To be honest recently i was thinking about developing this application myself.

Perhaps i 'll re-event the wheel once again for educational purposes.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Blowfish64:
Mmm, now crap, it's not doing the "send to" thing anymore. I'm getting the error again with 1.4.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] joemanb:
There are dozens of PPC editors out there, and none of them are perfect. Tillanosofts editor doesn't rate very high in my opinion. Having somebody actively developing an editor is a chance to have all the features I (and others) desire included in a single program. Right now, I'm using two different ones because one (UKNote) doesn't support 'Send To', and the other (SHNotePad) won't open multiple files with a double click.

As far as not being able to save files...just use 'File dialogue Changer', you don't want to add unneccesary stuff to the APP.

File associations can be done with GSfinder or Total Commander. you don't want to add unneccesary stuff to the APP.

I love your inplementation of 'FIND'. It's different. but it works well!

I can confirm that 'Send To' no longer works :mad: (also, it no longer opens associated files with double click). I hope this gets fixed, because without these features, it's just another editor (like Tillanosoft's which doesn't support 'Send To').

The editor that comes CLOSEST to having all the features I desire is SHNotePad.

It supports multiple documents with a tabbed interface, works with 'Send To', 'file associations', and 'Open With', supports UNICODE, and has 'Search and Replace'.

The only thing I wish it would do, but doesn't, is allow opening multiple files via 'Send To', 'File Association', or 'Open With'. When I try to do this, the editor becomes active with the first file still loaded, but the new file isn't opened in a new tab.

If this behavior is difficult to program, another viable option is allowing multiple instances of the editor to be open at the same time (like UKNote).

Thanks again for your hard work! I am eagerly awaiting the next release!

J03M4N

GO FOR IT! As far as I'm concerned, you can't have too many editors!!!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Blowfish64:
Wow! That's awesome! Thanks so much for pointing us to that!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] shamasis:
BETA issues

Arre!!!! Sorry Boss! The 1.4 BETA is really a BETA! What I mean is... I just added the Find Implementation to the old 1.2 release! Just for you to test the BETA!

The final 1.4 release version will have the Send To working!!!

Thank you for your appreciation. As I had said earlier... no creation is created unless there are people to appreciate it.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] shamasis:
Released v1.4, Suggestions needed

I have released 1.4 with all (most) bugs fixed!

The new release has a Fast FindAndReplace algorithm (not the native regex or the string.replace, but a faster one).

The highlight issue is fixed. And the send-to works as usual!

However I have 2 roadblock ahead... Help me solve them:

One:

I felt that allowing multiple instances of the exe would keep the application light and yet allow muliple documents to be edited simultaneously. But, WM CF allows only single instance of an exe. I found no workaround to launch multiple instances of an exe. If someone could help, it would be great.

Also, as this app was not designed keeping tabbed documents in mind (how stupid of me), implementing tabbed interface will require considerable re-work of the app and may cause new bugs to come up.

If there is no work-around for multiple instances, i will implement tabbed documents assuming that someone would do extensive BETA testing in some real-world scenario! :p Thanks in advance!

Two:

I have made this new release internally "Localization Friendly". However, enabling "Localizable Property" of this application bumps up the file size slightly, but allows anyone to do the translation by adding language specific Resx files to the project. Should i work on localization by including multiple languages in one single exe? Or separate exe for separate languages (sounds tedious to maintain for me)?!?!?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] shamasis:
Thanks for your support... for a while I was really feeling depressed about the "re-inventing the wheel" stuff. :)

Also, thanks for redirecting requests to existing alternatives as I was really thinking that adding newer file dialog and file-associations procedures may make this app heavy and hence loose its main aim of being "light"!

Regarding Tabbed Browsing... thats my next update... but will take some time as I have loads of pending office works and adding Tabbed browsing might turn out to be buggy as this app was not designed ground up keeping tabs in mind.

And... oh yes, do test out the "Replace All" feature (without Match Case) on slightly larger files! (Maybe compare with some other editors, as I have implemented a faster ReplaceAll algorithm) :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Blowfish64:
Hey shamasis,

Don't take my reinventing the wheel comment too badly. I was simply stating that as it stood it wasn't too much different from existing alternatives. Plus I was making a point to mention things that would make your program stand out from them. I appreciate the active development that is going on with this, so don't think it was meant as a slight.

Also, I can confirm that "Send to" functionality is working again. And as for my personal preference, I would rather have tabs than multiple instances of the exe. And I'd be happy to beta test if you need people to do that.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] shamasis:
:) Thanks for your support. As i had said this is my first PPC app and I wanted to do something simple, and what else can be simpler than this. :p I know I have not done a great job but I intend to do so as I get a good grip on this platform. :)

Now the editor supports unicode files and very soon i intend to add tabs. After this make it a cab setup and associate with txt files. That (I guess) will make this a complete editor (complete software in the sense that it would be the "Notepad" Microsoft should/would have had in their OS by default and not the "Notes" app.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] birkov10:
Congratulations, very nice editor, I like it very much but I´d like it a lot more if you can add an option to open/save in Unicode, UTF-8 ... :D :D

Aaahh and with the "File dialogue Changer" it works very fine, so keep the good work :cool:
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] bigix1:
Wonderfull app. I use it to correct my script (mortscript) directly on PPC.

File size is important (i like light apps and most impostant simply exe application) so i can suggest you to use actual language till final version.

At this point you can compile exe file for separate languages (with help of all of us).

I'll be happy to help you in translation (for italian of course). When you are ready, send me a PM.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mondilv:
The same opinion, unicode - and be the best:)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] shamasis:
Unicode Issue!

Basically, the default TAHOMA and COURIER NEW fonts of WM5/6 does not support Unicode characters. If you people already have unicode capable fonts on your devices, I can program Notepad to have a "Font Chooser". If that helps.

You can already see that the fixed-width font-type supports many Unicode characters (rather extended ASCII), but not all Unicode characters.

Have a look at: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=334781
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] corduroy27:
Thanks shamasis and any people who work on this.

I like to have usefully .cab files ;)

mainsail, gives me this link from our new MIO A701 COMMUNITY here:

http://www.a701.org/Forum/
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Blowfish64:
How's this coming btw? Any update on tabs?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] shamasis:
Yes! Proceeding...

I have just made code optimizations that would make every text document independent of any specific resource/event in the app. This would stabilize the application.

I would release an intermediate version with these changes and small feature of opening "Recently Opened Files".

Once I see things are working, I will introduce the tabbed browsing. And that would be the LAST update to the notepad before I introduce the "skinning: feature to this app, so that it can be made to look better on faster ppc.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] cirial:
Awesome little app, thanks!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] zard:
Great software!

Any chance that you can add "ini" functionality? Thanks.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] shamasis:
Already exists!

This editor can open ALL TEXT FILES!! Ini are text files too! imply open the app, go to File->Open. Select "All Files" from dropdown and open your ini file!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] [deXter]:
Here are some of my simple, *necessary* and easy requests:

1) Save settings on exit (Eg: Word Wrap, Font, etc)

2) -1x and -2x zoom (ie, zoom out)

3) Use tgetfile.dll (So that file open dialogs behave like normal windows' instead of searching all files)

Thanks for making such a nice program! And please keep it as simple and small as possible even in the future! :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] shamasis:
Feature already there!

I don't know why you didn't get the features in the latest release!

The v1.4 release already has "Save Settings", "1X, 2X Zoom"!

However, tgetfile.dll is not implemented. I would have implemented had it been free. Its license needs to be bought :( Uuse "File Dialog Changer" as mentioned in earlier posts instead.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Blowfish64:
I think he was asking for zoom out, not just zoom in.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] [deXter]:
^ That's right, I was asking for zoom-out, ie, 'Reduce'

@Shamasis:

I did download the attachment named notepad_1_4 and extracted it. However, it doesn't seem to have the 'save settings' feature.

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Another feature which would be nice is an auto save-and-restore. For eg, say if I'm typing something important and the battery runs out, when I open Notepad again it will retain whatever I had typed earlier.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] shamasis:
Zoom 0.5X

Well... first I am sorry for not being able to release a new version as promised. You see, I have got caught up on two very interesting open-source JavaScript project headed by me. :)

Other than that, I guess from your posts, I get the idea that I need to have a Zoom 0.5X as well! (Phew... I already thought that 1X was very small.... perhaps it was because of the high DPI on my test device... Diamond... *sigh*!!)

I think I will incorporate 0.5X Zoom at the earliest!

Also, there is no specific "Save Settings" menu item in the application. It happens automatically! You just need to change your settings and it will remember. (Except 'Word Wrap' feature, which is not implemented due to technical reasons : for some wierd reason, changing the word-wrap value upon load disrupts the cut-copy-paste menu! Let me see if I can work around it.) Till then, other features like Font-Style and Zoom-Level are saved automatically.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] frquixote:
Thank you!

I just wanted to say "thank you" for the outstanding job you have done with Notepad. I have had unending problems with the built in Notes, particularly when it came time to synch with Outlook, so I was looking for a good notepad/text editor that would allow me to store my notes in a standard format on one of my two storage cards (one CF and one SDHC). With the addition of File Dialog Changer and gsGetfile, your Notepad met all my requirements, it integrates well with Resco File Explorer ... and its free! The combination of features and a responsive developer did it for me.

I look forward to Recently Opened Files, tabbed support, skinning, UTF-8 and perhaps larger file support (please, please, please). I need the latter to edit Gutenburg and other etexts.

Regards,

Sig Runge
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] shamasis:
Release 1.5

Most may have thought that this developer (me) is dead! But unthankfully, due to work, I was almost dead! Nevertheless, this New Year I thought of at least implementing the least I could.

So... (1) added the ZoomOut functionality and (2) Compressed certain resources so that the app size would decrease.

See first post for uppdated notepad_1_5.zip file.

Trust me, let me get some time, I will surely implement the "Recent Files" and some other Minor Feature.

After repeated attempt to implement Tabbed-Documents in this implementation-model, I realized it would be best to develop the key sections of this APP from scratch. That would keep it as stable as it is currently and also help me maintain things better. That also means that I am planning of a v2.0 release with all these updates (after I get some tome off my FusionChartsDOM projet!)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] FatBoyExtraordinaire:
Nice to see you back and nice to see the update.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] MrLAG:
Thx for this application! I suggest you make it remember last opened folder. Now it remembers only last opened file type. And as I use "all files" it's quite unhandy becouse it starting with all folders :/
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Dragonet:
Can it edit other language text???
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] thebranded:
excellent app, was using pword to edit my xml files and had to rename the file between txt and xml each time just to open!

Works great looking forward to updates, especally the tabs option.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] shamasis:
Yes... am working on something more acceptible. As I have realized that Windows' native File Open dialog box is not much helpful to most.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] claus1953:
It is working nicely with file dialog changer.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] monmon:
Thank you

Simple, yet an important release
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] smuppy:
LOVELY app!

The only thing I'm missing is the fact that it cant save swedish characters (unicode or utf8?), åöä, other than that its simply perfect!

If I could make a wish, support for unicode/utf8 would definately be it.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ElCondor:
Works very good, cpr files are supported too so it's very handy! Thanks!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] claus1953:
The only problem i faced is that i cannot edit larger cpr, mscr or xml files on my device, as they get cut off.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Paolooo:
Need Italian version...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] shamasis:
Next on line is UTF8 support. That is causing most... some sort of problem. Let me see, as soon as I get some free time off FusionCharts, i will get back here.

Italian and French translation (other translations coming up.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] svprm:
Thanks shamasis.

Nice.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Foliator:
Some comments

A few comments about Notepad Mobile:

First of all, congratulations to the author for staying focused and not overdeveloping this app into bloatware, like so many other editors have become!

Regarding the questions about the file size limit in Notepad Mobile, this appears to be something imposed by the WM operating system rather than NET CF, because I've seen it in other editors not written in NET CF. Most small text editors, such as Tillanosoft's Pocket Notepad, reach their limit at about 30 kb on my Axim x51v, despite the fact that there's plenty of RAM remaining.

The editors that get around that limit handle up to 64 kb; this includes Notepad Mobile. The internal editor of Total Commander Pocket, which was not written in NET CF, also limits out at 64 kb.

Aside from Pocket Word, which I don't like at all, I've only seen two third-party editors that could handle more than 64 kb: There's cke, which can edit files up to the device's memory limits. Unfortunately, it's still in an alpha version after several years, has too many bugs, and only works with fixed-width fonts, which I find pretty ugly.

MADE was another one that could open files of unlimited size and was packed with features. That one had problems, too, most notably with the word wrap.

Anyway, 64 kb is more than enough text for me; I'm a writer, and a longwinded one, too, but not so much so that I would exceed that limit. ;-) Besides, it gets pretty tedious to scroll through documents that are as big as 300 kb, or even 1 mb. I've done that with eBooks from project Gutenberg -- what a chore!

Now regarding opening multiple files, those of you who have Total Commander may want to try this:

Assuming you now have a working file association set up for Notepad Mobile, highlight two or three files in TC, then use the Open command in the context menu. You'll get multiple instances of Notepad Mobile, but it works! All you need is a good task switcher; my personal choice is Magic Button.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] shamasis:
Thanks.

Thanks a ton for understanding what I am targetting. I have dropped many features even after developing it due to instability of WM or due to performance issues. I intend to actually keep Notepad Mobile as usable as possible.

I am still trying to get around the 64kb limit of .NET CF. To get around it, I will need to load the file separately in RAM and subsequently render it as graphics in a custom textBox control. This does not sound performance friendly! A lot of things will need to be re-implemented instead of using the native WM implementations. ... I am still finding a viable fix.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] shamasis:
BETA release 1.6

Kindly test this stable BETA.

New feature added "FullScreen Functionality"... use Menu -> Fullscreen.

Fixed a bug of textarea loosing context-menu after changing word-wrap state. (reported by Gerry)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] 6Fg8:
some time ago i stumbled over notepad, not knowing that its published on my favorite pda site :) So, first of all a big thanks for your effort. Its one of the first tools to copy after flashing a new rom, and theres not a single day without using it.

Theres only one thing i would change. The main use for me is editing config files of different flavors, and most of the time i disable word wrap otherwise it becomes unreadable. It would be great if notepad could remember the last used wordwrap setting and restore it on next start.

I downloaded 1.6 and tried the fullscreen option - nice! really useful to have more screen for content. Keep it up!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Foliator:
I just created a file containing those characters with Notepad Mobile 1.6 beta. When I reopened it, the characters showed up properly. They also showed up in the cke text editor, which identified the file as UTF-8. They don't display correctly in an ANSI editor, or Word Mobile, for that matter, but Word will display a UTF-8 file correctly if it finds the 3-byte signature at the top: ï»¿

cke adds that, but other UTF-8 editors don't.