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11 Aug, 2008 - 03:48 AM
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I started a project a couple of days ago to make a simple text editor called nText (short for NerdText). For more information about the project, here's a link to my blog were there's alot more info:
http://www.dreamincode.net/forums/index.ph...p;showentry=850
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11 Aug, 2008 - 12:15 PM
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Nice!

I actually like the simplicity of Notepad. The one thing that really kills me is the lack of a line/column counter.

Add that and maybe some basic syntax highlighting and you'd have yourself a decent editor! smile.gif
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12 Aug, 2008 - 03:06 AM
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Thanks, I'll take that into account when I've started serious development and I was thinking I'll add plugin support for adding syntax highlighting. It started out as a project so I coul haave a simple text editor that didn't have the crap that I didn't need, but now that I've started development on it and almost finished the first version, it looks like there'll be alot more to come! happy.gif
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16 Sep, 2008 - 09:12 AM
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nText 0.1 is almost complete, here's some preview images:
http://www.dreamincode.net/forums/index.ph...p;showentry=910

I'm working on a logo for it in Gimp but I can't seem to think of a good idea for it yet.
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16 Sep, 2008 - 11:39 AM
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Nice! Now I get the nText posts in the other threads~ kinda unsure.gif

As Tom stated, I like the simplicity~ mine's getting a little crowded wink2.gif

Are you gonna set up a SourceForge for it?
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Ye, that would be the best option for me but I have to get my parent/gardian to agree(though that shouldn't be too much of a problem). icon_up.gif

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Though nText 0.1 is super simple because I thought it would have been better to have something to work upon instead of a pile of code that I could easily mess up.

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Any news on this? How are you getting on?
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23 Sep, 2008 - 11:48 AM
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Pretty crapily, school has taken over my life but I'll be hopfully finishing it tomorrow if I'm lucky.
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Can we get a preview?

I'd like to try it out. smile.gif

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I just realised I read your posts in an Irish accent... laugh.gif
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23 Sep, 2008 - 12:11 PM
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That's the frustrating bit, I've made everything but the TextEditor.java file that puts it all together. But I have a Zip archive with the classes that have been made so far(the TextEditor.java class has an error in it because I have yet to complete it).

And by the way, your accent is probably a Dublin one, I have a Connemara one. (Look up "Connemara" on Google is you don't know what it is)

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And I won't be putting it on SourceForge until I think it's good enough to be distributed. So that'll probably be around version 1.0 if all plans go well.

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Nice! Your code is pretty well structured, which is good to see.

I just had a quick read through about 60% of the files, it looks pretty good to me icon_up.gif

Can't wait to see the final thing. smile.gif

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Have you implemented anything like syntax highlighting, line numbering, etc yet?
I didn't see anything to do with it in the files I looked in~
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QUOTE(gabehabe @ 23 Sep, 2008 - 01:20 PM) *

Nice! Your code is pretty well structured, which is good to see.

I just had a quick read through about 60% of the files, it looks pretty good to me icon_up.gif

Can't wait to see the final thing. smile.gif

EDIT:
Have you implemented anything like syntax highlighting, line numbering, etc yet?
I didn't see anything to do with it in the files I looked in~

I've decided that i''m not going to go down the road of syntax highlighting, I'm going to make it into something like a free, open-source, cross-platform version PolyEdit and then once I've that done, give it a plugin manager and some other handy features.

The aim of the project origanly was to suit my needs, it still is, the only difference now is that I'll be doing that aswell as putting things in the users of it would want.
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