Comments on: PN Usage Polls – Output Windows

By: TonyG

TonyG — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 08:46:00 +0000

I Love everything about PN, I use it 18 hours a day every day. – I would love to see split windows and a better function tag finder than can see functions written like this:

this.blah = function(e){return false;};

But most importantly split windows! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!

By: atmel dude

atmel dude — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 04:25:31 +0000

1. I love output windows (however I use mostly the main one, not so much the buffered one, but there must be at least one output window!)

2. the question is a bit ambiguous, both the first and the third options are the same thing. I personally keep my windows maximized because I don’t like MDI titles of the windows taking space of my screen. A split stuff would be better, that is why I voted the third, however the first is what I am currently doing (because I don’t have the third).

By: Angus

Angus — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 00:32:09 +0000

@James
Hi James,
PN is an editor and not a compiler but it allows you to configure external compilers as tools and capture the output.

Most compilers have an executable that can be called from a command line (a.k.a. DOS prompt). PN allows you to call this executable.
Look in the Tools->Options menu and go to the Tools configuration. Here it will allow you to call your compiler and pass it the arguments it needs as well as configure capturing the output.

By: Angus

Angus — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 00:20:48 +0000

@Dorin
Have you tried the View->Output menu (F8). I’ve used this when Ive dragged it off the viewable screen.

By: Angus

Angus — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 00:16:42 +0000

I’ve been using Programmers Notepad since 2003 and I think it is GREAT!

I constantly use the output window for capturing compile output and I love the way it integrates the error outputs to source file locations. DO NOT under any circumstances take this away!

Since over 1/3rd of respondandts dont know there are output windows then maybe we should be educating them on how to get the best out of PN.

I often need multiple source file documents open sometimes for side by side comparison, sometimes simply because code is spread across multiple files. The file TABs are fantastic and I use them constantly. The MDI is great and I dont think window splitting is as usefull as the bookmarks (IMHO).

Overall I think PN is a very mature program and to my mind the functionality of the output windows and MDI is very well designed and does not need more development.

By: Dorin

Dorin — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 14:21:23 +0000

I am a novice user of programmer’s notepad, and I woould like to ask for some help with the output window.
After I compiled some C code for a microcontroller using a make all command, I dragged the output window down on the screen and now is lost. (I may have dragged-it outside of PN’s window or on the status bar of PN)
I have tryied to find how to get-it back (on PN menu and on google) to no avail.
How you set up the output window location.

By: Ig0r

Ig0r — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:32:43 +0000

How about marking occurrence of selected word, very useful when debugging.

By: roland

roland — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 11:54:17 +0000

When opening pn the project tree always is completely unfolded, which is very annoying. I’d prefer the folding state is saved between invocations of pn.

By: James

James — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 18:43:35 +0000

If it is possible, I would like PN to COMPILE files.
I would also like PN to have one more language in it: GML. The GML website is at : http://www.gmlscripts.com/gml/game_maker_language

By: Tristan

Tristan — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 06:57:32 +0000

Just a suggestion for the next version;
If it is possible, could PN have a feature that updates the
CSS/HTML/other syntax highlighting?
Right now I am using PN for the coding of my website, but the CSS syntax highlighting is still on CSS2 while I am coding in CSS3.