Text Editor

• Desktop app
• OOP approach + code separated into packages/modules
• Configuration file (config.ini)

✨ Technologies

• Python
• Tkinter GUI library

Overview

Features :)

• Common commands: New file, Open, Save, Save As
• Edit commands: Undo, Redo, Cut, Copy, Paste, Delete, Select All, Insert current Date/Time
• Context Menu with common edit commands
• Text wrap options: Word or None (additional scrollbar is added on None)
• Custom Window for Font settings - family, size, weight, slant
• Custom Window for Color settings - background, foreground, selectbackground, selectforeground
• The built-in Colorchooser is used for color picking
• "Reset" buttons to apply the default font/color settings
• Key binding for almost everything
• Statusbar showing various info (Auto-clearable)
• Info messagebox showing all possible keyboard shortcuts
• A menu option opening the project's github repo in browser
• Save unsaved changes prompt for both new and already existing files
• utf-8 encoding on save
• All settings are saved to the .INI configuration file (including window size and position)
• Window title showing opened file name or just 'Untitled' when no file is opened

... and the COOLEST 😎

• AutoSave functionality for existing files running on interval defined in the config file

Screenshots

Favicon

• Free text editor icon from https://iconarchive.com

Color Reference

Color	Hex
Dark Orange	#d35400
Dark Grey	#7f8c8d

Run Locally

Clone the repo to your local mashine using:

git clone git@github.com:georgievm/py-tkinter-textpad.git

Run the textpad.exe file!

📝 License

This project is GPL v3 licensed.