📝 Dpad Text Editor

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🎨 Screenshots

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Light Theme

Monokai Theme

✨ Features

• Font Customization — Change font family and size from the toolbar
• Text Formatting — Bold, Italic, and Underline support
• Font Color Picker — Choose any custom color for your text
• Text Alignment — Left, Center, and Right alignment
• Find & Replace — Search and replace words instantly with highlighted matches
• 6 Built-in Color Themes:

Theme	Background
Light Default	White
Light Plus	Light Gray
Dark	Dark Gray
Red	Soft Red
Monokai	Gold
Night Blue	Steel Blue

• File Operations — New, Open, Save, Save As with unsaved-changes warning
• Live Status Bar — Real-time word and character count
• Toggle UI — Show/hide toolbar and status bar from View menu
• Keyboard Shortcuts — Full hotkey support for faster workflow

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⌨️ Keyboard Shortcuts

Action	Shortcut
New File	Ctrl + N
Open File	Ctrl + O
Save	Ctrl + S
Save As	Ctrl + Alt + S
Exit	Ctrl + Q
Find	Ctrl + F
Copy	Ctrl + C
Paste	Ctrl + V
Cut	Ctrl + X
Clear All	Ctrl + Alt + X

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🛠️ Requirements

• Python 3.x
• Tkinter (comes pre-installed with Python)

No additional pip packages needed to run the source!

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🚀 Getting Started

Run from Source

git clone https://github.com/your-username/dpad-text-editor.git
cd dpad-text-editor
python Dpad.py

Make sure icons2/ folder and icon.ico are in the same directory as Dpad.py

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📦 Build as Windows Executable

This project uses cx_Freeze to build a standalone .exe.

1. Install cx_Freeze

pip install cx_Freeze

2. Update TCL/TK paths in setup.py

os.environ['TCL_LIBRARY'] = r"C:\path\to\Python\tcl\tcl8.6"
os.environ['TK_LIBRARY'] = r"C:\path\to\Python\tcl\tk8.6"

3. Build

python setup.py build

The executable will be generated in the build/ folder.

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📁 Project Structure

Dpad-text-editor/
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├── build/           # Compiled output
├── dist/            # Installer (.msi)
├── icons2/          # Toolbar & menu icons
├── Dpad.py          # Main application
├── setup.py         # cx_Freeze build config
├── icon.ico         # App icon
├── tcl86t.dll       # Required for exe build
├── tk86t.dll        # Required for exe build
└── README.md