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Richard of York is always keen to co-operate, and hence is easily integrated with your favourite text editor to provide a seamless HTML development environment.

This page contains instructions for integrating Richard of York with the following text editors and development tools.

If you integrate Richard of York with a program not listed here, please send clear, step-by-step instructions here and we'll publish them.


TextPad 4
  • Choose Preferences... from the Configure menu
  • Choose Tools from the left-hand pane
  • Click the Add button and choose Program...
  • In the Select A File dialog browse your hard disk to the location of Roy.exe and click OK, then OK again
This sets Richard of York up by default to import the current file's body tag (if found) at startup. If you want to prevent this from happening, do the following:
  • Choose Preferences... from the Configure menu
  • In the left-hand pane, click the + next to Tools to expand a list of user-defined tools
  • Select Roy from the bottom of the list
  • Clear the Parameter field
  • Click OK
N.B. If you get an error message when starting Richard of York from TextPad 4, choose Configure, Preferences... and in the File section make sure the option Keep files locked while editing them is not selected.


TextPad 3
  • Choose Customize... from the Configure menu
  • Click on the Tools tab
  • Click on New >> and select Command...
  • Specify the location of Roy.exe on your hard drive
  • Now specify the following settings:
       Menu text: Richard of York
       Command: [leave as it is]
       Parameters: $File
       Initial folder: [leave blank]
  • Check Save all documents first
If you don't want Richard of York to import colour settings at startup, simply leave the Parameters field blank.


UltraEdit
  • Choose Tool Configuration... from the Advanced menu.
  • Under Command line enter: <full-path-to-Roy.exe> "%f"
  • Under Menu item name enter: Richard of York
  • Tick Check if Windows Program and, if you wish, Save all files first
  • Working directory can be left blank
  • Click Insert, then OK
If you don't want Richard of York to import colour settings at startup, omit the "%f" from the command line.


Microsoft Visual Studio 97
  • Choose Customize... from the Tools menu
  • Click on the Tools tab
  • Scroll down to the bottom of the list and double-click on the dotted rectangle
  • Type the text you want to appear on the Tools menu, e.g. &Richard of York (the ampersand will cause the R to be underlined on the Tools menu and act as a keyboard accelerator)
  • Hit return
  • Use the ... button to browse to the location of Roy.exe on your hard drive
  • Next to Arguments enter: "$(FilePath)" (include the quotation marks!)
  • Click Close
If you don't want Richard of York to import colour settings at startup, leave the Arguments field blank.