I run Windows Mobile 6.1 on an HTC P6500.
I have a nain application and a .DOC file which I open in Word Mobile.
I switch between the two applications.
I now want a 2nd text application which will open in parallel with word.
I sync'd scratch.txt, but it opened in word, rather than in notepad.
Excel might do, but I sometimes refer to another file via that.

So, I am looking for an application, other than word or excel, in which
I can type text. I want to be able to switch in and out of this
application. I want to be able to copy text from that application to the
clipboard.

I've checked my main application takes clipboard data via Ctrl+V.

Suggestions, please!
--
Walter Briscoe

For reading and editing simple text files, suggest installing
pocketnotepad from http://tillanosoft.com

There are several other text editors out there from the simple to the
complex cke for programmers.

TXT files placed in your sync folder will sync as you have found out,
but what you will need to do is to reset the .TXT association to
associate it with the text editor you want to use... you can still open
these files by using each apps "open" dialog as long as it will show the
..txt files.

Beverly Howard

I don't know about WM6, but WM5 comes with a built-in application called
Notes that supports text editing and clipboard functions.


"Walter Briscoe" <wbriscoe@nospam.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
news:qlv8uSbTsGYKFw0p@freenetname.co.uk...
>I run Windows Mobile 6.1 on an HTC P6500.
> I have a nain application and a .DOC file which I open in Word Mobile.
> I switch between the two applications.
> I now want a 2nd text application which will open in parallel with word.
> I sync'd scratch.txt, but it opened in word, rather than in notepad.
> Excel might do, but I sometimes refer to another file via that.
>
> So, I am looking for an application, other than word or excel, in which
> I can type text. I want to be able to switch in and out of this
> application. I want to be able to copy text from that application to the
> clipboard.
>
> I've checked my main application takes clipboard data via Ctrl+V.
>
> Suggestions, please!
> --
> Walter Briscoe

Notes is an Outlook PIM related app that, while it does support editing
and reading plain text, it uses an outlook file format (.PWI) that is
not stored as a plain text file.

Further, notes can open a plain text file with the extension .PWI but it
will modify that file on first opening converting it to the outlook file
format.

Word will also open a text file, but, it is defaulted to save the file
on closing to word format so that it is no longer a simple plain text file.

The above means that users who work regularly with plain text (.TXT)
files really need to install a plain text editor and set the .TXT
association with that app.

PocketNotePad is a good simple text editor, however, I remember that it
does have a low max file size limit (30k?)

http://tillanosoft.com/ce/pnotepad.html

CKE is a serious text editor for programmers which includes a number of
advanced features such as syntax highlighting, multiple file support,
etc, but, this is a one man project and the app should be considered
alpha... there is a google support forum created by the author.

http://www.animaniak.com/cke/cke_main.asp

Beverly Howard

In message <OA72g5wBKHA.4984@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl> of Fri, 17 Jul 2009
13:42:49 in microsoft.public.pocketpc, Beverly Howard
<Bev@NoSpamBevHoward.com> writes

Beverly,
Thanks to you and to Stephen Bye <stephenbye@byedesign.co.uk> for your
suggestions. Notes does exist in Windows Mobile 6.1; I think it may
serve my purpose.

In the longer term, PocketNotePad from <http://tillanosoft.com/ce/pnotep
ad.html> may be better as it supports .TXT files.

My level of ignorance about Windows 6.1 is awesome.
How do I change the association of .TXT from Word to PocketNotePad?
I assume we are talking about a "regedit" operation, but have no notion
on tweaking the WM6.1 registry.

>Notes is an Outlook PIM related app that, while it does support editing
>and reading plain text, it uses an outlook file format (.PWI) that is
>not stored as a plain text file.
>
>Further, notes can open a plain text file with the extension .PWI but
>it will modify that file on first opening converting it to the outlook
>file format.
>
>Word will also open a text file, but, it is defaulted to save the file
>on closing to word format so that it is no longer a simple plain text
>file.
>
>The above means that users who work regularly with plain text (.TXT)
>files really need to install a plain text editor and set the .TXT
>association with that app.
>
>PocketNotePad is a good simple text editor, however, I remember that it
>does have a low max file size limit (30k?)
>
>http://tillanosoft.com/ce/pnotepad.html
>
>CKE is a serious text editor for programmers which includes a number of
>advanced features such as syntax highlighting, multiple file support,
>etc, but, this is a one man project and the app should be considered
>alpha... there is a google support forum created by the author.
>
>http://www.animaniak.com/cke/cke_main.asp
>
>Beverly Howard

--
Walter Briscoe

>> I assume we are talking about a "regedit" operation, but have no
notion on tweaking the WM6.1 registry. <<

First, a disclaimer... I don't have wm6.1... but I assume the file
associations are handled the same.

The easiest way is to use an app that can do it... my recommendation
would be the pockettweak app from tillanosoft but others such as Resco
explorer also allow you to set file associations.

the page http://tillanosoft.com/ce/ptweak.html has screesnaps on how to
set file associations.

Beverly Howard