Ideas

Random ideas

An unchronological assortment of brainstorming for new features and fixes.

Immediate Tasks

• check selection alignment when switching to HTML view
• check syntax highlight re-formatting after undo
• check on Ostermiller no-such-element exceptions
• check on occasional tab memory and reopening loss or additions
• launch via Java Web Start; INPROGRESS: workaround to launch file (now including the toolbar) successfully, but still need to identify plugin folder
• save tabs from multiple windows
• check on crash when copying text; WFM?

Ideas

• check on lost I-bar after switching to HTML view
• MacOS X about dialog box
• feature to insert hard returns after a given number of characters or for given visible space
• elim multiple spaces via Extra Returns Remover
• check on shortcuts in HTML/RTF views
• plug-ins: listener types create listeners that TextTrix attaches to given TextPad
• "Letter Pulse" plug-in
  • check on auto-indent adjustments after switching tabs in the middle of a pulse session
  • make HTML-view pulsing possible
• use java.util.ResourceBundle for internationalization and further keybinding customization
• auto-indent: adjust when single word spans multiple lines, including when hit enter in the middle
• automatically auto-indent lists: documentListener waits for single hard returns, which flags to check if the head of a continuous sequence of adjacent, preceding, text-containing lines starts at the beginning of the line while the lines in the rest of the sequence each begins with list delimiters; if next typed character is a list-delimiter, turns on auto-indent for the given region; similar algorithm when loading files
• when saving an already existing file, match the file filter with the file's extension
• Plug-ins
  • plug-ins' pref list fields sizes
  • build API for plug-ins?
  • Search plug-in
    • option to search backward
• preferences panel to choose default paths and file type filters
• option to remember which specific files used auto-indent
• Tabbed pane updates
  • when have multiple files with same filename, add more of path to tab titles
  • truncate filenames on tabs
• print images and multi-formatted text
• rename files in place
• TablePad for spreadsheets, including tXtFL player-creation plug-in
• Wrap-indent
  • update indents when paste over selected area
• command-line arg not to reopen files or for quiet operation
• pref for hanging indent size
• Search plugin looks through multiple files
• file management:
  • working copy mode: allows user to work on a copy of the file rather than the file itself, then see and apply changes as desired
  • file locking
  • read-only mode
• reopen tabs if exit canceled
• group copy: copy multiple, separated lines
• Lift Off for tearing off Text Pads into separate windows