Legacy Pad Lite has become ACFPAD

C

ChairShot

Summary
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PSassano's Legacy Pad Lite has become ACFPAD.
This is a great replacement for the standard Notepad
application. This program has also become freemailware.


Platform
--------
It was written on 98. A reasonable amount of testing has
been done on XP. The version system for this program will remain the
same as it was before the name change took place so the first version
will be 1.3)


Features
--------------
@ Autobackup (every 4 minutes)
@ Detailed status bar (1.3 is even more detailed than its
predecessors)
@ Rapid access to important documents (Favorites)
@ Highlight and change the case of the word under the caret
with ALT+L (lowercase), ALT+U (uppercase), and ALT+C (title
case)
@ Deselect all text with ESC key
@ Reads and writes files in ANSI and Unicode
@ Progress bar provides a visual during Save and Open operations
@ Generic IDE capabilities
@ Print selected text
@ Go To
@ Create a Home directory for the program to initially look for
files
in
(and save files in)
@ Recent files list (the list is not saved long term, only for
the
current session)
@ Reasonable search capabilites
(Find, Replace, Quick Find, Replace in Selection)
@ Keyboard friendly (virtually every menu item has a shortcut
key)
@ Overtype box caret for Overtype mode
(I don't like to list this as a feature since I feel it is
mandatory.
Unfortunately, most text editors do not have this.)
@ Opens large files (especially ANSI)
@ Read-Only document icon for read-only files that are being
edited
@ Insert contents of files, or the locations of files or folders
(It can insert long path names, or the old-fashioned MS-DOS
names)
@ Properties dialog shows document size, format, and allows you
to launch the document's properties sheet
@ Supports drag-and-drop of files (drag and drop of text is not
supported)
@ Left-hand margin gives you some room to work
@ Highlight a single character and the ASC value of the character

will be displayed on the status bar
@ Simplicity is power and this application will not overwelm you
with
a trillion different features. Notepad users will feel right at
home
using it.


Bugs
--------
This program has been worked on for several years now. It's quite
stable at this point. A few quirks exist, no workarounds have been
found as of yet. There is a problem displaying Unicode documents
correctly using the SYSTEM font. And there is a problem with the
margin disappearing if you delete all text including the mysterious
richedit end-of-document marker (Choose UNDO to get it back.)


Installing ACFPAD
-----------------------------
There is no install for this application, you must set things up
manually. You need to register the two ActiveX controls that
the program uses (richtx32.ocx and comdlg32.ocx) using the
WINDOWS\SYSTEM\REGSVR32.EXE utility. You also need to
to place a copy of the LEGACY PAD.DLL file in your
WINDOWS\SYSTEM directory. Lastly, you need to get
the Visual Basic 5 run-time library file (MSVBVM50.DLL)
and place it in your WINDOWS\SYSTEM folder.


Disclaimer
--------------------
The author grants you the right to use acfpad for as long as you like
It is not time-limited. The author DOES NOT grant you the right to
modify the program or to distribute it to others. The author assumes
no risk for your using the program. If you use it, you do so at your
own risk.


Distribution
----------------------
Acfpad is only available by direct email from the author; I don't have
a
website right now, and I'm definitely not losing any sleep over it.
If you would like a copy of this program please remove the tic-tac-toe
symbols from


#king#of#dos#@#hotmail#.com


I will email a (zipped) copy of it to you as soon as I get the chance.
It may take several days or even weeks - I'm a busy bee!


Full Version
-------------------
ACFPAD was originally created to promote a better text editor.
The full version of acfpad is called Legacy Pad. It has
lots of terrific features. This program has become "game-ware."
If you want a copy of it, you have to send me some video games
and help me feed an obsession that has been growing and raging
out of control since I was a little kid. Games must be near mint
with instructions. Email me for a list of acceptable games.


Future Updates
------------------------
The author of acfpad is in the midst of a 12 month break
from software development, although I have been doing
a bit more "computing" this week than I had in previous months.
There are no plans for adding any new features to acfpad.
An update will only be released if any new bugs or quirks
are found and fixed.

dos-man
(author)
 
V

Vrodok the Troll

Summary
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[snip]

Along with all the shameless product-plugging (albeit Free), perhaps you might
be bothered to toss-in a url, either for the Main-site or for Downloading?
 
D

Dos-Man

Vrodok said:
On 11 Feb 2005 06:14:27 -0800, in alt.comp.freeware,
(e-mail address removed), by way
of Message-id
Summary
-------
[snip]

Along with all the shameless product-plugging (albeit Free), perhaps you might
be bothered to toss-in a url, either for the Main-site or for
Downloading?

No URL for downloading was offered or exists.
As I stated in my post the program is freemailware.
You email me and I email it to you.

dos-man
 
D

Dos-Man

Susan said:
an alternate method:

http://www.yousendit.com/

Send the app to yourself and then post the download URL. . .

Susan
--
Pricelessware & ACF: http://www.pricelesswarehome.org
ACF FAQ: http://clients.net2000.com.au/~johnf/faq.html
ACF wiki: http://www.markcarter.me.uk/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?AcfWiki
Pricelessware (not maintained): http://www.pricelessware.org


Looks good, I'll use it.

http://d26.yousendit.com/F/0PAZ7JOMTQ1PK25G9R5HS0CKDV/acfpad.zip

I think this is the correct URL.

dos-man

dos-man
 
D

Dos-Man

Steven said:
Nope, it's not.......

If you can send it to me, I'll be more than happy to host it for you?
(services@ my domain (see sig))

--
Regards

Steven Burn
Ur I.T. Mate Group
www.it-mate.co.uk

Keeping it FREE!



The problem with that is that I would have to send it to you
every time an update comes out. I guess if you don't mind, I
don't mind.

I certainly hope that there won't be a need for any
more updates, but there always seems to be
as this is a complex application.

dos-man
 
D

Dos-Man

This one works, but it says that it is only available for 7 days and
for a limited
number of downloads so get it while you can :)

dos-man
 

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