Seeking WordPad replacement with live hyperlinking

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msel · #16 Post by **msel** » Sun Apr 29, 2007 10:25 pm

For those who can speak german:
etabula has all the requested features.
Just unzip the file and it will work.
It will work from windows 95 to windows vista.

http://www.jp-freeware.de/etabula.htm

calm_observer · #17 Post by **calm_observer** » Mon Apr 30, 2007 12:43 pm

grannyGeek wrote:...This sounds like a trick that might work for other apps as well, do you think?...

yep

grannyGeek wrote:...I'm off to go search out some info about bat file "scripting", seems like you can use them for all sorts of things...

check these folks out home page and forum. IMHO much, much better than batch scripting. with scripts you can automate the whole process.

save current settings
install your settings
run the app
...
on exit app
save your new settings
reinstall original settings

cmmehl · #18 Post by **cmmehl** » Mon Apr 30, 2007 2:22 pm

msel wrote:etabula has all the requested features.
Just unzip the file and it will work.

True - it will work. However, it seems to save its settings in the registry - it doesn't create any file in its directory when settings are changed. And we all know that they must be saved somewhere ...

Although the website proudly claims

... no installation of any files whatsoever on your computer ...

(my translation), this doesn't seem to consider the registry. Which, of course, is not really a file, but then ....

Pity because this seems to be a neat program otherwise, with plenty of options and possibilities. If it wrote to an ini-file, and then maybe also offered an English version, it would surely be a worthy candidate for this DB.

Cheers
Chris