Web Pad V2.0
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Features
3. Installation
4. Contact & Feedback
5. Version History

Introduction

WebPad is an HTML-text editor designed for people who hand-code their web sites but need more editing power than Notepad has to offer.

WebPad runs on 32-bit Microsoft Windows platforms (95/98/NT). is a text editor with HTML helpersgizmos tacked on. It is multi-document, handles large files, has long file names, supports drag & drop, and has quite a few useful things to make HTML web page creation faster & easier.

WebPad is a modified version of Microsoft SuperPad. I got tired of using NotePad, and WordPad was too unwieldy, so I started using SuperPad, which is like NotePad on steroids but not quite like WordPad. Anyway. Then I started hacking on the source to add web features, and here we are.

So here's WebPad. Even has a setup program. Not bad for free. You can download WebPad, use it for whatever you want, and you don't owe me squat. Conversely, I make no promises that it does anything in particular, and I don't owe you squat either. The WebPad binary is released into the public domain. Source code for SuperPad is delivered with Microsoft's Visual C++. Source code for WebPad is not availible.

Features

• Default Web Document. The default document, instead of being blank, is a simple HTML document with HEAD, BODY, META tags, and a copyright notice. The default LINK, VLINK, TEXT, & BGCOLOR attributes of new document's BODY tag are configurable.

• Auto Indent/UnIndent. Highlight some lines and press TAB. Instead of replacing the lines with the tab character, all lines are shifted over the number of spaces set in the Set Tab Stops dialog box. SHIFT-TAB and the action is reversed. Great for indenting your HTML code and making it look pretty. (Make sure you select entire lines though, as there seems to be a small bug which crops up if the first or last line is only partly selected. I will fix it when I get time, in the meantime, work around it.)

• Table Wizard. Quickly create tables by specifying #columns, #rows, border, cell spacing, cell padding, alignment, and vertical alignment. A hell of a lot faster than doing it by hand!

• Keyboard Scrolling. CTRL-UP & CTRL-DOWN will scroll the text up & down without moving your cursor.

• HTML Tag Accelerator Keys for:
  • Bold. CTRL-B to make selected text bold.
  • Italic. CTRL-I to make selected text italic.
  • Center. CTRL-C to center selected text.
  • Image. CTRL-M to make selected text into an image tag.
  • Create Link From Clipboard. Make an anchor (link) from the URL in the clipboard with CTRL-L. (Netscape will copy the current page's URL to the clipboard if you double click the little chain-link icon to the left of the location field.)
  • Ordered List. CTRL-O starts an OL tag for you (one LI bullet).
  • Unordered List. CTRL-K starts a UL tag for you (one LI bullet).

Version History

• V1.0 (3/7/97) -- Initial release.
• V1.1 (3/30/97) -- Added IMG SRC tag, added empty table cell option to Table Wizard, fixed Ctrl+C so that it maps to COPY. Ctrl+R is now mapped to CENTER tag feature. Added OL and UL tag support.
• V1.11 [7/13/97] -- Minor fixes to dialog box strings.

Future Plans

• Multi-file search & replace. Ever want to change something in more than one file? Me too... This feature will require some time to code, so it may be a while before I implement it.

Download

• webpad111.zip (1.13M) -- Download WebPad Version 1.11.

• webpad.exe (82k) -- Version 2.0 beta1, Win98/2000 tested.

Install

• Installing WebPad is easy. Use WinZip to open the webpad11.zip file and extract the contents to a temporary directory. Then run the setup.exe program to install WebPad. You may then delete the files you extracted into the temporary directory.
• To get rid of WebPad, use Add/Remove Programs located in the Control Panel. This runs the uninstall script to cleanly remove WebPad from your system.
• If you have an older version of WebPad installed, uninstall it before installing the newer version you just downloaded.

Feedback

• If you have comments, bug reports, or anything else to say, you can email me. Or you can surf by and check out my home page.