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kPad, by Konstantin Boukreev
http://www.codeproject.com/wtl/kpad.asp?print=true
This is the tiniest freeware rtf editor I've yet to see.
In shareware, radsoft.net has rixedit and family, which are surely the
smallest of all time. In freeware, Notehalf might be mentioned. It is
160k. Well, not counting its vb dependencies, ie the 1.4mb msvbvm60.dll.
Either way, those are both SDI, one document per instance. kPad is tabbed.
I am convinced kPad is the smallest functional tabbed rtf editor out there.
It is 104k. Then UPX, that brings it down to 54k (!).
It does richtext: those basics, such as font styles and colors. It does
not do OLE, such as pics insertion.
It has persistent settings, including your preferred background color. It
keeps a recents docs list under the File manu.
It has internal drag-drop, where you can move text around with your mouse.
It is hyperlink aware. I tested with "http://" and with "file:".
It will of course open .txt. But its orientation is .rtf. By this, I mean
that it will offer up formatting commands on opened .txt files, and that
the New File command defaults to giving a name with an .rtf extension.
OTOH, it is flexible in the Open dialog, which defaults initially to *.*.
On the New File operation, it is has a good, considerate autonaming
feature. It automatically provides you provisional, unique names.
New1.rtf, New2.rtf, New3.rtf, etc.
While this is a demo, a beta, I haven't been able to spot any problems
or significant shortcomings.
The only small matter I've noticed. When I drag a document onto a link
for it, the display is an SFN (shortf~1.rtf) instead of the LFN. Only
that one circumstance. It of course can read and write LFNs, and things
are fine in the Open/Save interactions.
You can open files from the explorer by dropping them onto its document
window. There is one thing I noticed. It was fine with that up to about
a 300k size, but GPF'ed on me with files larger than that. When I tried
those same test files in the Open/Save, it was fine.
About filesize max. That might be fairly intertwined with the strength of
your hardware. Largest file I tried was 1.5mb, and it did manage to open
that, but got pale and sweaty in the struggle for a bit, until at last
succeeding in heaving it up.
That was a text file. I don't think I have any simple .rtf files that are
that large. My larger ones have embedded pictures, which a non-OLE rtf
editor like this cannot display. Here is a small result, though. It was
fine with a 500k .rtf I handed it. Then on a multimeg .rtf, it failed,
displayed only a fraction of it.
About the richtext files this can read and write. Again no OLE/pics. And
too: the files need to be the low-end of the rtf file format. It does not
handle tables very well (alignment is skewed and so on). But hey, At 104k,
I don't really expect the sophistication found in those editors that are
closer to the scale of word processors.
Conclude. I recommend this for fans of SMALL. I stand by the assertion that
no tabbed rtf editor gets close to how compact this is.
Eh, but about the download. In case you've not previously used codeproject.
You need to make an email identity + password, which they store in a cookie,
and required for getting files from them. You can use an imaginary email
address (there is not a confirm process), and do not have to fill out long
BS forms (zipcode etc). So the signup is pretty brief, other than entailing
some extra clicking until you have created your codeproject cookie.
Here is the URL again:
http://www.codeproject.com/wtl/kpad.asp?print=true
http://www.codeproject.com/wtl/kpad.asp?print=true
This is the tiniest freeware rtf editor I've yet to see.
In shareware, radsoft.net has rixedit and family, which are surely the
smallest of all time. In freeware, Notehalf might be mentioned. It is
160k. Well, not counting its vb dependencies, ie the 1.4mb msvbvm60.dll.
Either way, those are both SDI, one document per instance. kPad is tabbed.
I am convinced kPad is the smallest functional tabbed rtf editor out there.
It is 104k. Then UPX, that brings it down to 54k (!).
It does richtext: those basics, such as font styles and colors. It does
not do OLE, such as pics insertion.
It has persistent settings, including your preferred background color. It
keeps a recents docs list under the File manu.
It has internal drag-drop, where you can move text around with your mouse.
It is hyperlink aware. I tested with "http://" and with "file:".
It will of course open .txt. But its orientation is .rtf. By this, I mean
that it will offer up formatting commands on opened .txt files, and that
the New File command defaults to giving a name with an .rtf extension.
OTOH, it is flexible in the Open dialog, which defaults initially to *.*.
On the New File operation, it is has a good, considerate autonaming
feature. It automatically provides you provisional, unique names.
New1.rtf, New2.rtf, New3.rtf, etc.
While this is a demo, a beta, I haven't been able to spot any problems
or significant shortcomings.
The only small matter I've noticed. When I drag a document onto a link
for it, the display is an SFN (shortf~1.rtf) instead of the LFN. Only
that one circumstance. It of course can read and write LFNs, and things
are fine in the Open/Save interactions.
You can open files from the explorer by dropping them onto its document
window. There is one thing I noticed. It was fine with that up to about
a 300k size, but GPF'ed on me with files larger than that. When I tried
those same test files in the Open/Save, it was fine.
About filesize max. That might be fairly intertwined with the strength of
your hardware. Largest file I tried was 1.5mb, and it did manage to open
that, but got pale and sweaty in the struggle for a bit, until at last
succeeding in heaving it up.
That was a text file. I don't think I have any simple .rtf files that are
that large. My larger ones have embedded pictures, which a non-OLE rtf
editor like this cannot display. Here is a small result, though. It was
fine with a 500k .rtf I handed it. Then on a multimeg .rtf, it failed,
displayed only a fraction of it.
About the richtext files this can read and write. Again no OLE/pics. And
too: the files need to be the low-end of the rtf file format. It does not
handle tables very well (alignment is skewed and so on). But hey, At 104k,
I don't really expect the sophistication found in those editors that are
closer to the scale of word processors.
Conclude. I recommend this for fans of SMALL. I stand by the assertion that
no tabbed rtf editor gets close to how compact this is.
Eh, but about the download. In case you've not previously used codeproject.
You need to make an email identity + password, which they store in a cookie,
and required for getting files from them. You can use an imaginary email
address (there is not a confirm process), and do not have to fill out long
BS forms (zipcode etc). So the signup is pretty brief, other than entailing
some extra clicking until you have created your codeproject cookie.
Here is the URL again:
http://www.codeproject.com/wtl/kpad.asp?print=true
