PowerPad began when I was working on another project. I needed a good text editor to edit the files with. Although there were many that provided a large number of features, they seemed to be quite bloated and difficult to use. On the other hand, other text editors lacked common necessities such as a toolbar and auto-indent, so the need for PowerPad was born. It started as a simple C++ application using only the Win32 API and over time, many features have been added. PowerPad is nowhere near complete, but a good many of my "critical" features have already been implemented. My hope is that you will give it a try and if you have any comments / suggestions, drop me a line at admin@quickmediasolutions.com and tell me what you think.