News update 8/13/00:
Hotpad development is now officially discontinued. I have decided that it works well enough for its intended purpose, and I have chosen to move onto another project. See the NetSamurai page for more details.

Hotpad is an integrated development environment for Java and C/C++. It is written in Java and requires the JDK 1.1 or JRE 1.1 to run. (If you don't know what the JDK is, then this program is probably not for you.) Hotpad uses the standard Java AWT, so it is a much smaller download than editors which use special Swing classes (4 MB+). This program is most likely to be useful for amateur Java programmers like myself who have difficulty finding a simple, but powerful Java IDE.

Please send any comments or questions to codemaker@fcmail.com
Note: Unless people e-mail me, I have no idea if anyone is even using Hotpad. As far as I know, Hotpad has 1 user.

Current version: 0.606
Last updated: 5/24/00
Download now! (163 KB)
Please read the enclosed readme.txt file for installation instructions.

Hotpad 0.606 and source is available!

Key features:

• Lightning compile, the fastest way to compile on almost any system because it uses the built-in javac class to compile. You won't find this on any other compiler because it can only be done using Java!
• Small, easy to use, yet powerful
• Can use any combination of compilers/interpreters (including C/C++ compilers, see readme.txt for more info)
• Tested with lcc-win32 (recommended for C), cygwin (recommended for C and C++), DJGPP, and MS Visual C++
• Fast, clean interface, uses standard AWT (no Swing components)
• Convenient code editing features such as auto indent, block tab, and brace alignment
• Multiple undo
• Window docking
• Pop-up menu with function names for quick access

• Recently used file/project list
• Basic editing features such as find, replace, go to line
• Line and column numbers
• Select line number by clicking on error message
• Plain text project files
• Automatic HTML generation for applets
• Launch JDK documentation with a single key
• Keyboard shortcuts, dialogs which support enter/escape

* There are compatibility issues with Hotpad running on non-Windows systems. The implementations of Java for these platforms are often unstable and can freeze randomly. Please see the enclosed help for more information.

Compile time for a sample file on a Pentium 200
Without lightning compile	5 seconds
With lightning compile	0.5 seconds

Screenshot

This is a screenshot from version 0.401.

Hotpad mirrors

http://skyscraper.fortunecity.com/deschutes/972/hotpad.html
http://uweb.ucsb.edu/~uhaitj00/hotpad.html
http://www.geocities.com/newworld.geo/hotpad.html

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