📝 Notepad in Python with Tkinter

This project is a simple Notepad-style text editor built using Python's Tkinter library.
It provides essential file editing features such as writing, saving, opening, and editing text files, all within a graphical user interface (GUI).

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✅ Features

📁 File Menu

• New – Clears the text area and resets the window title
• Open – Opens a .txt file using a file dialog and loads its content
• Save – Saves the current text to a selected file (default .txt)
• Exit – Closes the application

✂️ Edit Menu

• Cut – Cuts the selected text
• Copy – Copies the selected text
• Paste – Pastes the clipboard content into the editor

🖥️ Interface

• GUI created using Tkinter's Text widget
• Word wrapping enabled for easier reading
• Dynamically resizable window
• Built-in filedialog for file I/O

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🔧 How It Works

• The main class Notepad inherits from tk.Tk, creating the root window.
• The text editing area is implemented using Text().
• Menus (File, Edit) are created using Menu() and added to the top menu bar.
• Core methods:
  • new_file() – Clears all text from the editor
  • open_file() – Opens a file and displays its content
  • save_file() – Saves current content to a file
  • cut(), copy(), paste() – Use built-in event generation for editing

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▶️ How to Run

1. Make sure Python 3 is installed.
2. Save the file as notepad.py.
3. Run the file:

python notepad.py

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🖱️ GUI Overview

• Text Area: Main writing panel with scroll and word-wrap

• File Menu:

  • New: Clears the text area

  • Open: Loads content from an existing file

  • Save: Saves content to a file (with extension .txt by default)

  • Exit: Closes the application

• Edit Menu:

  • Cut: Removes and copies selected text

  • Copy: Copies selected text

  • Paste: Pastes copied text into the cursor position

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💡 Potential Improvements

• Add font selection or theme options (dark/light mode)

• Add keyboard shortcuts (Ctrl+S, Ctrl+O, etc.)

• Add status bar (line number, word count)

• Implement undo/redo functionality

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👨‍💻 Author

Created by CristiC7

Beginner-friendly text editor built using Python and Tkinter.

Open to improvements and contributions!