Introduction: Batch Notepad
I made this notepad thing because .. well. I had nothing to do.
i know you can get the dos editing thing but i still wanted to make my own version.
all it does is lets you name and make a file.
thats about it lol.
please tell me if you find any bugs..
also ask :
erikals
For a more up to date bug free version of this. . . . Thanks erikals =D
And please comment.
Step 1: How You Name Your File
The first thing you can do is name it .. so I'll so you how that works...
it asks you to name your file eg. hello.txt , .bat whatever and then once you have named it lets say .. hello.txt it changes the title to 'hello.txt - iRule Notepad' and it also changes the bit thats always at the top .. so now when you edit the text it will save it as 'hello.txt'
HOW IT WORKS:
all i used to so this was:
set /p name=">"
title %name% - iRule Notepad
and thats all it took!
Step 2: Adding Text
The next thing you can do it add text ... to do this you just type '123loltestwhatever' whatever you want and it will make a file called 'whatever you named it' then to add a new line you press enter as many times as you want although you cannot use the symbols < > | because they are used for batch commands it is annoying when say your making a .bat file and you want 'echo 123>123.bat' but you will have to find a way around that.
HOW IT WORKS:
to make it save all it took was one like of coding:
echo %content%>>%name%
and to write the content all it was:
set /p content=">"
Step 3: Edit a Document That Already Exists
on the options screen when you press 0 all it does is takes you to the batch editor witch is a really rubbish editing thing but it uses batch thats why i linked to it in my notepad...
HOW IT WORKS:
all this took was:
set /p edit=">"
edit %edit%
you can download my natepad compiled as an .exe or .bat if you want to messaround with it =]
!! REMEMBER !!
Take out the .itsa so it looks like iRule Notepad.exe or .batnot .itsa
35 Comments
6 years ago
How do you set your text color to that bright green?
i only know
color3
6 years ago
it won't allow me to run the .exe version on my computer!
Its running: Windows 10
Could help?
9 years ago on Introduction
can you make a batch file that can find text in notepad and copy it to another new notepad
9 years ago on Introduction
You realise you can do this ENTIRE thing in 10 lines?
Next time try using:
Copy con %file%
And tell the user to end the editing session by "Ctrl + Z"
14 years ago on Step 3
The file types drive Linux crazy!!
Reply 14 years ago on Step 3
Can you give it like ?????.exe, ?????.bat, ?????.vba, etc?
Reply 9 years ago on Step 3
Here's the copy of all the code (NOTE this message is 3 years late!!!!)
@echo off
color 0a
set name=United
title %name% - iRule Notepads
:options
cls
echo ________________________________________
echo.
echo iRule Notepad
echo ________________________________________
echo - %name%
echo.
echo Press 0 to edit a document that already exists.
echo Press 1 to edit the name of your document.
echo Press 2 to edit the contents of your document.
echo Press 3 for help.
echo Press 4 to exit.
set /p you=">"
if %you%==1 goto 1
if %you%==2 goto 2
if %you%==3 goto help
if %you%==4 goto 4
if %you%==0 goto 0
cls
echo *********************************
echo sorry invalid number!
echo *********************************
ping localhost -n 2 >nul
goto options
:1
cls
echo ________________________________________
echo.
echo iRule Notepad
echo ________________________________________
echo - %name%
echo.
echo Name Your Document .. eg. 'hello.txt' or 'hello.bat'
set /p name=">"
title %name% - iRule Notepad
goto options
:2
cls
echo ________________________________________
echo.
echo iRule Notepad
echo ________________________________________
echo - %name%
echo.
echo To add another line to your text press enter .. To stop editing press the big
echo red X in the corner of this screen.
echo.
echo Cannot use symbols:" > < | " lol if you use any of them 3 symbols it closes!
echo.
set /p content=">"
echo %content%>>%name%
cls
echo Save Successful!
ping localhost -n 2 >nul
goto 2
:help
cls
echo ________________________________________
echo.
echo iRule Notepad
echo ________________________________________
echo - %name%
echo.
echo If you are having trouble with iRule Notepad please pm me in instructables ...
echo Also please tell me what you think =]
echo.
pause
goto options
:4
cls
echo.
echo.
echo.
echo.
echo.
echo.
echo.
echo.
echo __Made by iRule_________________________
echo.
echo iRule Notepad
echo ________________________________________
echo Please tell me what you think =]
ping localhost -n 5 >nul
exit
:0
cls
echo ________________________________________
echo.
echo iRule Notepad
echo ________________________________________
echo - %name%
echo.
echo Type in the name eg. 'hello.txt' or 'hello.bat'
echo The file has to be in the same directory as my notpad!
set /p edit=">"
edit %edit%
goto options
10 years ago on Introduction
What, oh come one! As soon as I make my "Document Creator" I start seeing that everyone all ready beat me too it...
Oh well, good work.
P.S: Add more features to it.
13 years ago on Introduction
can someone plz tell me the script for this with no words in between plz?
Reply 13 years ago on Introduction
i'm sending u a pm
13 years ago on Introduction
Thanks, sounds good, i never got round to that =] pm me file please.
14 years ago on Introduction
Here's a batch file notepad I made a a long time ago:
http://jakashthree.googlepages.com/notepadbatchfile
Reply 13 years ago on Introduction
cool batch ... btw soz if this is rip off of your notepad.
14 years ago on Introduction
Three things: 1) What does this do? "ping localhost -n 2 >nul" 2) I am trying to create a batch file that a) includes code for another batch file in the scripting and b) will install said code on the computer as a batch file. Can your program do this? If so, how? 3) How do you turn a .bat file into an .exe?
Reply 14 years ago on Introduction
1) the ping localhost -n 2 >nul makes the batch sleep ... for 2 secs
2)yes it can .. if im right then you want a bat file to make another with a sertain code in it?
well my thing can do this but all you need is:
echo yourcode>>new.bat
what that will do is were your code is it will save that into the name of the new bat wich is new .. you can change both of them .. but this only adds one line you need to do this:
echo @echo off>>new.bat
echo color 0a>>new.bat
echo title new>>new.bat
and so on.
3) to turn a batch into an exe you use a compiler .. the one i use is here .. just dowload it and use .. no installing =]
hope i helped
Reply 14 years ago on Introduction
Just to clarify, what I want is this:
@echo off
title Batch Insallation Program
set/p "choose= >"
if %choose%==install goto Install
cls
echo Installation aborted!
pause
exit
:Install
{code(s) that will install the following}
@echo off
color 0a
title New Program
echo It Works!
pause
exit
Of course this is not the program I want to write, but you get the idea.
> Using "echo yourcode>>new.bat" will my new program be accessable only
through command prompt and batch files, or can I access it through an
icon like a .bat created on Notepad?
> A password batch program I found uses "echo set A=%A% >> %TEMP%\pass.dat"
to save a password. Does "%TEMP%\" just create a variable in "pass.dat"?
> Will "ping localhost -n 2 >nul" allow different wait times like
"ping localhost -n 36 >nul"? I've tried using
"PING 1.1.1.1 -n 1 -w 1000 >NUL" but it does not work on my Windows XP.
Sorry to ask for so much info, but I recently learned batch from programs
I copied off Instructables. Thanks for the help.
Reply 14 years ago on Introduction
lol the ping thing works .. my version .. on my xp and my vista .. but you probely didnt think it did because that would of waited for a hell of a long time...
the make a file thing:
i dont know about the %temp% thing but my way works eg. your example:
:Install
echo @echo off>>new.bat
echo color 0a>>new.bat
echo title New Program>>new.bat
echo echo It Works!>>new.bat
echo pause>>new.bat
echo exit>>new.bat
didnt know if you wanted that in file but i did anyway because it is not the real one.
that would save them all into a .bat file in the same directory as the file that is making them ..
hope that helped
Reply 14 years ago on Introduction
It's been a while since I posted anything here, but I veiwed your -ible by mistake, so I thought I'd leave an idea. To get a batch file to wait accurately, use the following script:
@echo off
set/p time=
echo wscript.sleep %time%>timer.vbs
call timer.vbs
ACTION
This tells the batch file to export "wscript.sleep %time%" to timer.vbs, and then call it. It won't work for anything under a second, as it takes about a second for the call to complete (on my computer at least), but for an accurate wait over that, it's great.
Reply 14 years ago on Introduction
My installation program works thanks to you. Now I'm wondering this: you can introduce info to a file using echo data>>File.file Is there a way to delete lines from a file (echo data<<File.file)? Also, I downloaded the .bat to .exe converter, but I can't get it to work. Any .bat file I try to convert never appears as a .exe anywhere on my computer. Instead my virus protection just discovers a new Trojan Horse.
Reply 14 years ago on Introduction
For the .bat to .exe converter i would use the f2ko one that is what i used but now i have vista and it doesn't work so i have to use the online one. i don't know if there is a way of taking out a command sorry i guess you could just delete the file then make it again without that command in e.g. echo hello>>hello.bat echo hi>>hello.bat del hello.bat echo hi>>hello.bat hope i helpped