Author Details

The developer of Notpad is PJ Naughter.

Some Background

Since obtaining my degree in Electronics from Dublin City University  in 1993, I have been working as a software developer in Leopardstown, Co. Dublin with Softech Telecom, who specialize in producing telecommunications costing software.

Notpad Background

Notpad started as a simple wizard generated application in Visual C++ as an intro for a friend of mine to Visual C++ and MFC programming. At that time, there was only 20 lines of code actually written by me in Notpad. This was back in 1996 and since then there has been numerous releases and lots more code has been added since then, however it is still a relatively lean executable weighing it at just around 240k in size. The aim of Notpad is to keep it simple and keep it small. Notpad is not a word processing application and will never include the kind of functionality found in programs such as Microsoft Word, in fact if it did a lot of the reason for Notpad would be gone. Whenever some new features has appeared in other Window products such as bitmap menus, flat toolbars (Office 97), Online updates (Real Audio), IntelliMouse support etc etc I have tried to integrate these into Notpad. One thing I have always tried to do is to keep it as backward compatible as possible e.g. even the latest version will run on NT 3.51. I try to incorporate as many end-user suggestions into Notpad but sometimes they are just at odds with what I want for Notpad. Hopefully you'll agree with the philosophy behind the development of Notpad.

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