Topic by The Dwarfer 2015-02-18 17:17:40

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Hey guys,
I don't know if this is in the right room, but if it's not, mods just move it, please guys don't post 5 posts about it being in the wrong room. big_smile
read the following line carefully.

This. is. a. very. very. early. alpha.
The reason I emphasize this so much is that all this has is a file and edit menu, but read on.

It's something I programmed inside of an hour yesterday because I was really bored, and have recently been creating small programs to practice my purebasic skills. Here's what this one can do.
-it can open, create, and save files. note that to open a file you'd have to first run the program and then press control o to select the file. Like I said, early Alpha...
-an edit menu with some very basic options. Cut, copy, paste, undo. Again, early alpha.
Are you uninterested? well this might change your mind.
-autosaving. Insures no work is ever lost. If you haven't yet saved your file (you just opened the app and began typing), all your work is saved to a temporary autosave.txt file which is located in the main program directory. As soon as you save this file, the autosave will be deleted.
The reason the autosave is here is so that if your computer were to shutdown unexpectedly, you'd have your work saved. Please note, however, that temporary means temporary. For now, since this is just an alpha, it deletes the autosave and replaces it with a new one as soon as you open the application. I plan to make it prompt you before it does this though in the next update.
-even if you open an existing file, or have already saved your document to something other than autosave, the autosaving feature is still active. Thist time, however, the changes made to your file are autosaved to the actual file you're working on. for example if you're working on changelog.txt, all autosaves will be saved in changelog.txt.



So I know it isn't a lot, and it probably will get like 2 downloads at most. But hey. it was just a little practice toy, so it wouldn't bother me.
Anyways, here you go.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/492 … remake.zip
Provided any of you actually decide this thing is worth downloading, I'd appreciate bug reports. But if you don't download, I'll understand. big_smile

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Reply by Sean-Terry01 2015-02-18 21:16:07

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Hi, what about adding a read only mode. so, say you are reading a book and you don't want to type in that document, any key press such as letters and numbers get ignored.

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Reply by The Dwarfer 2015-02-18 23:14:59

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Um yeah that would be possible, the read only mode I mean. But you couldn't really use that to read books; I haven't the slightest idea how to code something like, say, fs reader if that's what you mean.

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Reply by Socheat 2015-02-19 04:24:04

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sound's awesome which I need to check that one out. downloading now.

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Reply by Sean-Terry01 2015-02-19 04:31:01

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No, I meant reading large text files! Files such as Harry Potter fan fiction books or things like that.

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Reply by The Dwarfer 2015-02-19 05:58:43

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Update:
Now there's a word count feature.
Now, if there's an existing autosave, the program asks you if you'd like to recover that. if you hit yes it recovers but hitting no will just make a new document of course. Use link in first post.

At Sean-Terry ah I see. but still there's kind of no point--unless the read only mode let you jump chapter by chapter, page by page or something... I guess. In that case I'd look into it, but that would be a separate program all together, not this small little notepad thing.

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Reply by devinprater 2015-02-19 18:57:55

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I think I'd be nice to have a wordprocessor on the aomputer with markdown support or something like that.

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Reply by The Dwarfer 2015-02-19 19:20:22

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What's markdown? I'm not really sure about that.


I hope I can add a spell checker. that's my first goal. It already has word and line count, both are useful features. I hope to make it possible to edit ritch text documents, though this will likely be a more daunting feet.

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Reply by burak 2015-02-20 17:11:24

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Hi, add marker support. For example, we're reading a book, we focus the currsor on where we left, press a key, nad that makrs that document, saving the character number we have stopped in a text file. Then we could hit a key when we return and find ourselves in where we left at.

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Reply by Sean-Terry01 2015-02-20 23:22:32

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Yeah, like book marks. So you are reading the afore mentioned Harry Potter Fanfaiction book and you want to set a bookmark in the book because you may need to restart your computer for automatic windows updates. you can find the book you were reading and then use the bookmark search command and search for the bookmark you left off at and begin reading from there. I hope this made since.

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Reply by burak 2015-02-20 23:24:06

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Exactly that. Since you have added the line and Word count, you can just retrieve what line the currsor was at and do the trick.

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Reply by Riad 2015-02-21 22:07:28

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Hi man. Just will try it out, as it'll be awesome, exactly like you are. Hoping to meet you again!

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Reply by kool_turk 2015-02-22 03:45:16

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There's quite a few features from EdSharp that I wouldn't mind using in a word processor.

converting one format to another, you could probably use the api from cloudconvert.com for that.

And my favourite feature from EdSharp is being able to select text by using markers.

In EdSharp you just find the starting point of the text you want to select, hit f 8, then find the end point of the text, I usually just use the find function, then hit shift f 8.

This program sounds like a slimmed down version of EdSharp, only hopefully a lot more snappier.

If you want to get an idea of what a now discontinued word processor can do, I'll post the link below.

I'm surprised it's still around.

Unfortunately, it is sluggish with larger documents.

http://www.EmpowermentZone.com/edsetup.exe

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Reply by Muhammad Hajjar 2015-02-22 19:00:36

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Hi,
Gonna download it man, I'd really like to try it.
Regards

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Reply by The Dwarfer 2015-02-25 03:16:13

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Hmm yeah I will try to add these features or most of them anyway. It would be pretty cool if you could code in this notepad as well... should I add support for any of those types?

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Reply by blindncool 2015-02-28 22:39:32

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I'd like to see find and replace features. So far I think it's cool.

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Reply by dardar 2015-02-28 23:01:56

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this certainly looks fantastic

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Reply by The Dwarfer 2015-02-28 23:29:33

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Yup I've been using it for things like school work and my racing game documentation seems to be working well... unlike the previous version xd.
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