QuillPad

QuillPad is a text and code editor built in Java 1.4.
It has standard text editor features including open, save, cut, copy, paste and help. Plus advanced find & replace and support for pluggable tools. You can use QuillPad to write HTML, XML, JavaScript and other interpreted web languages as well as source code for C, C++, Java and other compilable languages.
The final version was 6.1.3.1 (released 5th August 2007). Support ended 5th August 2008. Download QuillPad. View Screenshots.

QuillPad Plugin Tools have been obsoleted by the Web-based Code Snippets. But here are the old 'code snippets' as an archive.

Features at a glance:

  • Multiple Document Interface,
  • Open and Save platform default, Unicode including UTF-8 (QuillPad Default), Latin 1, ASCII and other document formats using UNIX, Windows or Mac OS 9 line endings,
  • Document modified indicator ( *),
  • File Read-Only detection and handling support (indicator: (!) ),
  • File filters include text, PHP, JSP, ColdFusion, vCard, vCalender, HTML, XML, RDF, OWL, SGML, JavaScript, CSS, SQL, Java source code, C/C++ source code, C# source code, QT, Python, Ruby and TCL source code
    Complete list below in 'Supported file types',
  • 14 Languages out of the box including English, French, German, Greek and Chinese,
  • Java Look And Feel, native Operating System Look And Feel (when available) and a list of other available Look And Feels,
  • Everaldo's Crystal Project Icons: available under LGPL (GNU Lesser General Public License),
  • Change text box background colour and font name, colour and size,
  • Change tab size between 1 and 9 (Default is 4),
  • Save window size & position,
  • Lowercase, Uppercase, Inverse Case, Title Case and Sentance Case functionality,
  • Go to Line goes to line and column,
  • Find and Replace (supporting Regular Expressions and a Multiple-Document Find & Replace mode),
  • Help Browser displaying help from LSM/RDF format,
  • Support for QuillPad Plugin Tools,
  • Check for updates feature,
  • Preferences within User Home Folder (default) or locally using -local command line switch,
  • RDF Powered: preferences, language files, help files,
  • Available in its own Java-based installer - version 2.3,
  • Also available in a Windows Installer for Microsoft Windows adding desktop and menu shortcuts and an entry to the 'Add or Remove Programs',
  • Plus a Mac OS X Edition taking advantage of Mac OS X's application menu and .app bundle features and available in an Apple Disk image (.dmg); recommended for Mac OS X.4 Tiger and higher users over the cross-platform edition.

User Preferences

 The user preferences, in LSM/RDF format as of version 6, are by default placed within the user's home folder such as:  C:\windows\QuillPad User Info\preferences.rdf or C:\windows\profiles\{username}\QuillPad User Info\preferences.rdf on MS Windows 9x;
 %SystemDrive%\Documents and Settings\{username}\QuillPad User Info\preferences.rdf on MS Windows 2000, XP, Server 2003;
 %SystemDrive%\Users\{username}\QuillPad User Info\preferences.rdf on Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 and later;
 ~/QuillPad User Info/preferences.rdf on Unix platforms such as Linux, Solaris, AIX, IRIX;
 Users:{username}:Library:QuillPad:preferences.rdf on Mac OS X.
If you require the preferences to be handled locally (to the program: within the QuillPad folder) then launch QuillPad using the -local command line switch.
(For the Mac OS X Edition you will need to go to the QuillPad folder in Terminal and procede through 'QuillPad.app/Contents/Resources/Java' to get to the core QuillPad.jar. From here you can use QuillPad's command line features as usual.)
This will allow QuillPad to be used on Pen Drives, Memory Cards, etc.
 If you are upgrading from version 5.1 or earlier then after upgrading QuillPad itself from its installer; just launch QuillPad 6.0 or higher (with or without -local switch) for the first time and it will apply your current settings and then upgrade and migrate your settings file to the new format and appropriete new place automatically.

Screenshots for QuillPad 6.1.3.1

(Screenshots are PNG (Portable Network Graphic) images ranging from 3.26 to 33.5 KB in size):

    • (dbqse): safe_mode/open_basedir prohibits opening ../../store/legendscrolls.sqlite

Supported file types

Text Files (*.txt, *.ini, *.inf, *.conf, *.config, *.csv, *.types, *.log, *.tsv, *.rtf, *.ans, *.asc, *.cas, *.ch, *.cnf, *.cfg)
vCalendar & vCard (*.vcs, *.ics, *.vcf)
PHP (*.php, *.php3, *.php4, *.phtml, *.inc)
JSP (*.jsp, *.jspx, *.tld, *.tag, *.jst)
ColdFusion (*.cfml, *.cfm, *.cfc, *.inc)
.NET (*.cs, *.js, *.vb, *.jsl, *.aspx, *.ascx, *.acmx)
ASP (*.asp, *.aspx, *.ascx, *.asmx, *.msasp, *.msaspx, *.js, *.jse, *.vbs, *.vbe, *.inc)
HTML, Server-parsed HTML (Server-Side Includes) (*.html, *.htm, *.shtml, *.shtm, *.ssi)
Cascade Stylesheets (*.css)
JavaScript, JScript, JScript.NET, JScript Encrypted (*.js, *.jse)
Flash ActionScript, (Flash Communication Server), (Flash Remoting Server) (*.as, *.asc, *.asr)
XML (*.xml, *.dtd, *.mod, *.xhtml, *.svg, *.xsl, *.xslt, *.xsd, *.xul, *.xbl, *.rdf, *.mml, *.mathml, *.smil, *.rss, *.owl, *.wml, *.plist)
Perl (*.pl, *.pm, *.pod, *.cgi)
Source Code (*.java, *.mf, *.list, *.properties, *.c, *.cxx, *.cpp, *.h, *.hpp, *.py, *.tcl, *.sh, *.cmd, *.bat, *.bas, *.def, *.dlg, *.htc, *.hta, *.htx, *.wsf, *.wsh, *.f, *.f77, *.f90, *.for, *.fmt, *.reg, *.theme, *.url, *.cgi, *.makefile, *.make, *.mak, *.mmake, *.manifest, *.rb, *.rbx, *.nsi, *.nlf, *.plist, *.pch, *.m, *.nib, *.strings, *.ui, *.qrc, *.pro, *.ts)
SGML (*.sgml, *.sgm, *.dtd, *.dcl, *.soc, *.ent, *.html, *.htm, *.shtml, *.shtm, *.ssi, *.cfml, *.cfm, *.cfc, *.inc, *.wml, *.rtf)
SQL (*.sql)

Languages

 QuillPad is available with 14 languages: British English (en-GB), American English (en-US), French (Français) (fr-FR), German (Deutsch) (de-DE), Spanish (Español) (es-ES), Italian (Italiano) (it-IT), Portuguese (Português) (pt-PT), Dutch (Nederlands) (nl-NL), Greek (Ελληνικά) (el-GR), Russian (Русско) (ru-RU), Simplified Chinese (简体中文) (zh-CN), Traditional Chinese (繁體中文) (zh-TW), Japanese (日本語) (ja-JP) and Korean (한국어) (ko-KR).

 Languages are translated by AltaVista's Babel Fish Translator and the Systran Language Translator Widget. Extra French corrections by Cool.
 If certain langages appear as blocks within QuillPad you may need to install additional language files for your operating system to handle these languages properly. Consult your operating system help or documentation for this task.
If the languages don't appear correctly on this page or any other page on this website then try changing the character encoding to UTF-8 (Core Level and higher web browsers support UTF-8) otherwise you may need to install extra languages to your operating system.

System Requirements, Download, Install & Run information

 See the Download QuillPad page.

Want to know more about Java Technology?

 You will find information including developer information about the Java Platform at Sun Microsystems's Java Website and java.net;
 Or general information of Java Technology at java.com.
 For information on Java for Mac OS X go to Apple's Java Site.

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