Working with Textpad 5

You can download TextPad 5.2 and use it as an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) by doing the following.

= Download the syntax file =

The syntax highlighting file gridlabd.syn should be saved in the system folder of TextPad 5.

= Configure the run command =



You can add the GridLAB-D executable (wherever you installed it) and configure a macro item to run it using the Configure/Preferences menu item. Figure 1 illustrates how this dialog is often set up. The macro item will be assigned to the Ctrl-1 key if it is the first one listed, Ctrl-1 as second, etc.