[APP][01/19/2009] MobilePad 1.1.100119 RF - Multitab Text editor (Supports Encoding)

[the0ne]

great app, thanks 4 it

[Foliator]

I've just started testing Version 2.5 on my Axim x51v. What a wonderful editor! My device is a PDA with no phone capability, so I changed the word "Phone" in the menu to "Send", and blanked out the items pertaining to phones. What's left now is "Send text via e-mail", and MobilePad is much easier to write e-mails in than the mailer's composition window.

One question: Under Tools / Options, it doesn't seem to make a difference whether Word Wrap/Font Size is checked or not, as those items are still available, even after a restart. Are they supposed to be disabled or eliminated from the menu when unchecked? I wouldn't want to disable those options, of course, because they're extremely useful, but I was just curious.

[vn1minh]

After a few weeks off to work on my yard, now i finally got it all fix up. Now, i have some free time to get back to this project. i will pick up what i left off last time.

[vn1minh]

Originally Posted by Sean D. Not sure what happened, but I can't get the program to open at all. Not if I try to open from the programs list, nor if I try to open an existing TXT file. The icon is visible, also on all txt files... but when I click on it (no matter which file it is) after about a second I get the windows wait cursor for a split second and then nothing. Not sure this is related, but around the same time this stopped working ActiveSync stopped working for me as well. My computer recognizes that it's plugged in, it will charge, but AS can not find the device. Only thing I was thinking may have caused a problem was cleartemp... I had been changing a few settings here and there, and since that time I have had these issues. Also noticed that since that time in pmClean where is has a box to check for Notifications, my device had went from about 45 Notifications to 76, and now back down to 16. I know this is a lot more info that y'all needed, but I need a solution and doing a HR is NOT an option.

Hi Sean, you provided me with alot of important information but i still do not know what is going on. What type of device are you using? What kind of ROM are you using? The only suggestion I have is to redownload the cab and try to reinstall it again. Default installation state of MobilePad doesn't associate with any file extension, you need to change the association within the program. Let me know the out come.

[vn1minh]

Originally Posted by arnaud.ja Hello, Very great piece of software! Thanks for your hard work! The only thing i do not like is the "Vista style" icon which closes/reducing the application. Another issue is that it is not possible to close the application via the windows mobile taskbar as the close button is not displayed. What would be the most useful for me would be to close the application as any other WM application via the windows taskbar. The vista style icon could be used to close the active tab instead of doing thqt via the file menu. Is there any configuration file i can modify to do that ? Thanks again.

Thank you for your support.
The only reason that i removed the close button from the Windows Mobile Taskbar and added in the Vista buttons is because it causes race condition with windows mobiles when asking the user if they want to save un-save files before closing. Currently there are no config file that can modify the vista style icon behaviour. So to exit the program, you can either press on the red X vista style icon or select Exit under File menu. I would like to apologize for this inconvenient.

[vn1minh]

Originally Posted by Foliator I've just started testing Version 2.5 on my Axim x51v. What a wonderful editor! My device is a PDA with no phone capability, so I changed the word "Phone" in the menu to "Send", and blanked out the items pertaining to phones. What's left now is "Send text via e-mail", and MobilePad is much easier to write e-mails in than the mailer's composition window. One question: Under Tools / Options, it doesn't seem to make a difference whether Word Wrap/Font Size is checked or not, as those items are still available, even after a restart. Are they supposed to be disabled or eliminated from the menu when unchecked? I wouldn't want to disable those options, of course, because they're extremely useful, but I was just curious.

Thank you for your support

The Word Warp/Font Size checkbox is to allow the program to remember your word warp state and font size when checked, will not remember when unchecked. Hope I answered your question.

[Foliator]

Thanks! I discovered that myself a couple of hours after posting the question. ;-)

Now I have one suggestion: Since there is still lots of room on the menu bar at the bottom of the screen, perhaps you could add some small buttons for navigation that would make up for the lack of PgDn, PgUp, End and Home keys on many mobile devices. Used with Ctrl, that could also provide fast access to the bottom and top of a file.

BTW, Hou Ming's File Dialog Changer is installed on this device, so I can access any subfolder with MobilePad, and needn't use a file manager to find files I want to edit.

Thanks for the best text editor I've ever used on my PDA!

[vn1minh]

Originally Posted by Foliator Thanks! I discovered that myself a couple of hours after posting the question. ;-) Now I have one suggestion: Since there is still lots of room on the menu bar at the bottom of the screen, perhaps you could add some small buttons for navigation that would make up for the lack of PgDn, PgUp, End and Home keys on many mobile devices. Used with Ctrl, that could also provide fast access to the bottom and top of a file. BTW, Hou Ming's File Dialog Changer is installed on this device, so I can access any subfolder with MobilePad, and needn't use a file manager to find files I want to edit. Thanks for the best text editor I've ever used on my PDA!

Thank you so much for being a fan
As for your suggestion, Some people might modified the name of those menu items to something longer then the default names. In this case it will push everything off screen. So adding toolbar button on the empty space with default names only works in some cases.

Maybe what i can do to improve readability is to add a Reading mode.

[Foliator]

True. Well, alternatively, there could be "Go to Top" and "Go to Bottom" options in the Find dialogue, or right on the Tools or Edit menu. Another approach is the use of keyboard shortcuts, such as Ctrl B for "Beginning of File" and Ctrl E for "End of File". Unfortunately, some keyboards don't have Ctrl keys, so the prior approach would work better.

But then, I'm no programmer, so you would probably have a more practical solution. My programming experience began in 1978 with Radio Shack BASIC, and ended in 1994 with QuickBasic for DOS -- my programs were primitive by today's standards!

[tomal]

Originally Posted by vn1minh Description: MobilePad is a light, speedy multitab text editor that allows you to create quick notes or long journals for daily activities right on your Windows Mobile Phone. It also provides the ability to exchange files or text messaging by sending the current opened file as SMS or Email to your friends and family. ...

It is a nice notepad and feature rich.
But it takes long time on first execution. I suppose it is because of .net framework.

I personally prefer the notepad should be a fast and lite-weight executable.

Anyway, keep-up the nice work.


cheers