I bought Smartdown last night, and installed it, with license, on my Windows 7 laptop. I even figured out how to download and install a new theme, and to turn off the soft wrap markers. I was enjoying playing with this, and was thinking it would be useful for all kinds of things.

But there's an odd behavior that I wonder if anyone else is experiencing. If I collapse the window, or click the icon of the running program on the task bar, the program simply closes (without saving). Is that true for anyone else? Or do I need to do a re-install?

I do have a messsage in to the developer. But even with a fresh install, the behavior persists. Task Manager shows that several instances are still running, but I can't switch to them. I know this isn't a support forum, but it's quicker than an email from France!

jaslar wrote:

But there's an odd behavior that I wonder if anyone else is
experiencing. If I collapse the window, or click the icon of the running
program on the task bar, the program simply closes (without saving). Is
that true for anyone else? Or do I need to do a re-install?

It's not a bug and you shouldn't have lost anything (yet). The open window (and running instance) has been minimised to the system tray. It's probably hidden for you, so just click on the upward facing double arrows in the bottom right corner of the task bar, and you should be able to reopen your running instances by clicking on them. When you reopen multiple instances, the windows may perfectly overlap, so you will need to drag them apart with a mouse.

Yes, this behaviour has the potential to confuse...

But otherwise I love SmartDown, primarily for the CriticMarkup implementation, which is of great help when it comes to revise and edit plain text and markdown drafts.

Thank you, Dr Andus. You are correct, and the developers told me how to change that behavior to make it more customary. I don't use Windows often enough to notice that option of minimizing to the rightmost panel.

But having understood how it works, I spent a while last night outputting a long chapter from Notecase Pro to text, then opened it in Smartdown and inserted controls to fold the text. This exercise gave me two things: first, the ability to move from two pane to one pane outline editing; and second, to create via Dropbox a file that can be viewed and edited on the Android platform.

Smartdown really is a wonderful writing environment, to my taste more appealing than any other markdown editor I've used so far.

Thank you, Dr Andus. You are correct, and the developers told me how to change that behavior to make it more customary. I don't use Windows often enough to notice that option of minimizing to the rightmost panel.

But having understood how it works, I spent a while last night outputting a long chapter from Notecase Pro to text, then opened it in Smartdown and inserted controls to fold the text. This exercise gave me two things: first, the ability to move from two pane to one pane outline editing; and second, the ability to create via Dropbox a file that can be viewed and edited on the Android platform.

Smartdown really is a wonderful writing environment, to my taste more appealing than any other markdown editor I've used so far.

jaslar wrote:

the developers told me how to
change that behavior to make it more customary.

Would you mind sharing what you did?

1. Open SmartDownGlobal.properties.

2. Comment with a # the following line:
minimize.to.tray=1

3. Restart.

There might be advantages to the default behavior, but I found it just different enough to throw me.

jaslar wrote:

1. Open SmartDownGlobal.properties.
2. Comment with a # the following line:
minimize.to.tray=1
3. Restart.

Got it. Thanks for that.