Contents

  1. File Menu
  2. Edit Menu
  3. Font
  4. View with IE
  5. Help Menu
  6. File Navigator
  7. Code View Tab
  8. HTML Preview Tab

     Macro Edit is a very simple to use text editor created for the purpose of providing a multi-document type interface (primarily for HTML writing) with the added internal ability to view HTML documents. The HTML browser is basically the windowed portion of MS Internet Explorer, and you can expect it to behave similarly.

File Menu

     The "File" menu has ten options:
New: Creates a new, blank tab page for creating a text based file.
Open: Opens an existing text based file for editing.
Save: Saves the text contents of the currently active/focused tab page. If it is not a "New" document, it will be saved with its original filename, and in it's original location. Saving a "New" document presents a Save dialog box.
Save As: Presents a Save dialog box for selecting a save location and name for the text contents of the cureently active/focused tab page.
Save All: Attempts to save the contents of every tab page. When a "New" page is encountered "Save All" will present a Save dialog to allow for naming and location specification.
Close: Closes the currently active/focused tab page. If the contents have changed since the last save, you will be notified and offered the opportunity to save before closing.
Close All: Closes all tab pages following the same procedure as above.
Print: Prints the text of the current document to the default printer.
Print Setup: Allows changing of the default printer and it's associated settings for as long as MacroEdit is running.
Exit: Checks tab pages for changes (basically does "Close All") then closes the application.




Edit Menu

     The "Edit" menu has seven options and each of them works on the text in the currently active tab page:
Undo: Reverses whatever action was last taken by the user. This under "Buffer" has a length of one, which is to say, you may only go back one step.
Cut: Sends the selected text to the Windows clipboard, then removes it from the text.
Copy: Sends the selected text to the Windows clipboard.
Paste: Pastes the contents of the Windows clipboard into the text at the current position of the cursor. Any text selected will be overwritten by paste action.
Select All: Selects all the text in the currently active tab page.
Find/Replace: Opens the find and replace dialog.
Find Next: If a search has been previously performed, "Find Next" will look for the next occurence in the text of the original search text. If not, "Find Next" opens the Find/Replace dialog.



Font

     The "Font" menu option allows you to change the font being used by the currently active tab page. ALL text in the active tab page will be changed to the newly selected font regardless of text selection on the tab page. Other tab pages will not be affected and my be set independently.



View with IE

     Clicking "View with IE" on the main menu causes the application to attempt opening your active tab page text in a new window of Microsoft Internet Explorer. Obviously, this feature is meant for HTML text, IE, however, may be able to display other forms of text.



Help Menu

     The "Help" menu has two options: The first displays this file (which my also be accessed by pressing the "F1" key). The second displays a brief, unadorned "About" box telling you a little about Macro Edit and providing a support contact.



File Navigator

     The "File Navigator" consists of everything on the left of the Macro Edit screen below the blue and gray "FILES" label. It is made up of 5 distinct parts:
Drive Selection Box: Allows selection of any accessible drive, including network mapped drives, to control what is available in the Directory Tree and, subsequently, the File List boxes.
Directory Tree View: Allows selection of any directory under the currently selected drive controling what files are available in the File List box.
Blue Splitter Bar: Allows adjustment of screen use between the File List box and the Diretory Tree view.
Filter Selection Box: Allows selection of 5 different filters to apply to the File List box:
  • All Files (*.*) = Displays all files in the selected directory
  • HTML Files (*.htm) = Displays all files with and extention of ".htm" or ".html"
  • Script Files = Displays all files with a "standard" script extention (".js", ".pl", ".cgi", ".pm", ".asp")
  • Text Files = Displays all files with an extention of ".txt" or ".bat"
  • Configuration File = Displays all files with an extention of ".cfg", ".ini", ".me"
File List box: Displays all files on the selected drive, in the selected directory, meeting the filter criteria
  • IMPORTANT NOTE: Double clicking a file in the File List box will open it on a new tab page for editing.




Code View Tab

     The "Code View" tab is where you will actually do most of your work. It can consists of 1 - 256 sub tab pages, each of which represents the file (text document) you are editing. There are really only four sections to the Code View tab:
ID/Selection Tab: The tab at the top of the code view area which identifies the file by filename only and allows switching between tabs via selection
Title Bar: The first item on at the top of the tab sheet below the Tab which lists the full "Path" (the location on a drive where the file exists) of the file being edited
Edit Window: This is the large white area where text editing actually takes place
Popup Menu: Right clicking the mouse anywhere within Edit Window causes a popup menu to display. This menu has all the options of the Edit Menu plus a "Close" option which will close the currently active tab page.




HTML Preview Tab

     For HTML documents a user may click this tab to display (or attempt to display) the currently active "Code View" tab content. While the HTML Preview tab will attempt to display any files contents, only with properly formatted HTML will it display as it should.
     Anytime the HTML Preview tab is displayed, the "File" menu option is disabled.



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