📝 NotoPad Pro

NotoPad Pro is a professional-grade Python-based text editor designed with Tkinter. It demonstrates clean architecture, advanced UI/UX features, file management, and modern software engineering practices.

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🚀 Features

✨ User Interface

• Modern, resizable, theme-switching interface (Light/Dark)
• Font size and style control
• Smart line numbering
• Word and character count
• Zoom in/out with Ctrl + Mouse wheel

✏️ Editing Features

• Syntax highlighting for Python
• Auto-indentation
• Bold/Italic/Underline formatting
• Smart Find & Replace (Regex, case sensitivity, whole word)
• Preferences dialog with persistent settings

📁 File Operations

• Open, Save, Save As for .txt, .py, and more
• PDF export (via reportlab)
• Auto-save and file backup every 30s
• Recent files tracking via recent_files.json
• Print support (cross-platform ready)

⚙️ Technical Features

• OOP-based clean architecture (classes: TextEditor, ConfigManager, etc.)
• Multi-threaded auto-save
• Persistent configuration using editor_config.ini
• JSON-based recent file handling
• Cross-platform support (Windows/macOS/Linux)
• Unicode/UTF-8 support
• No drag-and-drop dependency in .exe for safe distribution

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📁 Project Structure

-📂 NotoPad-Pro/
├── app.py                 # Main source code
├── icon.ico              # App icon
├── app.spec              # PyInstaller build config
├── editor_config.ini     # Stores user preferences
├── recent_files.json     # Recent files log
├── requirements.txt      # Python dependencies 
├── dist/
│   └── app.exe           # Windows executable (build output)
├── build.md              # Build instructions
└── README.md             # This file

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🔧 Installation (Run from Source)

Requirements

pip install reportlab pyenchant

You may also install tkinterdnd2 (optional) but drag-and-drop is disabled in the .exe.

Run

python app.py

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📦 Build Instructions (Windows Executable)

See build.md for full build steps.

Quick build command:

pyinstaller --onefile --windowed --icon=icon.ico app.py

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💾 Download the Executable

👉 Click here to download the latest version

⚠️ Drag-and-drop is disabled in .exe builds for compatibility.

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📷 Screenshots

Add some UI screenshots like:

• Editor with syntax highlighting
• Preferences dialog
• Light/Dark themes
• PDF export in action

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📜 License

MIT License © 2025 Pyaraka Pushyamithra