Hacker's Adda

Reading the WinPack manual, which is downloadable as a PDF file from http://www.gb7fcr.plus.com/WinpUser6_80_PDF.zip, you find around a dozen references to using Notepad. On Page 100 you discover that it is possible to add links to external programs to the Files menu of WinPack. Here's how to add Notepad:

1. Open a new file in Notepad
2. Enter the following text Windows Notepad
c:\windows\notepad.exe
False
False

3. Save the file as NOTEPAD.XTR in the WinPack directory.
4. If WinPack is currently open, close it.
5. Open WinPack. Click on the File menu. An entry for Windows Notepad should be there. When you click on it, an instance of Notepad should start.

Even cooler, you can add a button for Notepad on the WinPack Button bar by adding the following line to the NOTEPAD.XTR file:

Button=$WINP_PATH\ICONS\iconname.ico

You will have to find an appropriate icon. I found some good free icons at GoldenWeb.it - Icons - Textfile 2 and downloaded 62.ico. If you do that, save the icon file to your WinPack\ICONS directory. Then change the line in the NOTEPAD.XTR file to read:

Button=$WINP_PATH\ICONS\62.ico

and save the file. The next time you open WinPack, you will find a button to the right of the regular buttons. Click it and Notepad will open. Magic!

You can find lots of other cool things for Winpack at http://www.winpack.org.uk/ besides the manual. For example, there's a collection of almost 200 add-ins for the program.

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