What is this?

This is a notepad project created with code from

• StackOverflow
• The python codes
• Geeks for geeks and Python Tkinter Document.

this program mainly uses tkinter and it's modules, and no modules imported in this program require an external installation. inside the file notepadGUI.py, you will find a class called NotepadRun. It was originally a normal program with function, but for better editing of methods, I converted it to a class.

This class is dependent on outside frames, for example, the mainframe tkinter window when it starts, and the text widgets, are created outside the class, and needed to be provided as a parameter to NotepadRun.__init__ method.

There is another file, called syntax_checker.py , which is important when accessing the 'NotepadRun.programmerMode' method.

As the name of the object describes, it not essentially acts as a basic IDE, providing help with the automatic quotation and bracket closing, and a basic, keyword highlighter, which highlights the function and keywords so on and so forth.

There is also another purpose for this, that is doing the highlighting for the spellchecking, how it gets the dictionary to check with, is documented below.

There is one text file, named as spellcheck.txt, which has over 450000+ words. It is used as a spell checker, which provides Microsoft Word's typo functionality.

You can edit the class by overriding methods, but be careful since these methods are interlinked like crazy, and you might break stuff while doing so. so beware when editing the class or overriding in your program.

Documentation

1. First, make sure you have setuptools upgraded (to check that, run the command pip install --upgrade setuptools in your terminal.)

2. Install the wheel. DO NOT edit the name of file!

3. Now use the library. you do this if you want to use it to do the import, type in import NotepadGUI.notepadGUI as notepad. now paste in this code to generate the base for this class that will lateron use this. of course, you can edit this to your liking, perhaps change the font and size? maybe bold? italics? name it.

def main():
    """ main """
    root = tkinter.Tk()
    root.title("Notepad GUI v3.0 STABLE")
    text = tkinter.Text(root, height=20, width=100,
                        font=("Arial Rounded MT Bold",
                              18), )
    text.grid(row=0, column=0, pady=10)
    saveTo = tkinter.Text(root, height=2, width=50,
                          font=("Arial Rounded MT Bold",
                                12))
    saveTo.grid(row=1, column=0)
    notepad.NotepadRun(text_box=text, gui=root, saveTo=saveTo)


if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

Now this program should run. You can, as mentioned, email me for reporting bugs and features. And I also will update in the drive folder, so you always test the newest version!

That's basically it! Have a great day :D -A normal high school student