Photon

Photon Photon Text Editor is a modern text editor with minimalist features using an object-oriented paradigm. It is a minimal text editor that empowers users with features such as writing source code for multiple programming languages, copy, cut, find, replace, word count, and user control user interface as basic features.

Table of Contents

• Features
• Programming Language
• Modules/Libraries
• Screenshots
• Resources
• Gantt Chart
• Outcome

Features

Photon is developed using python and its robust libraries and frameworks. The development process involved designing an intuitive modern user interface, integrating advanced text editing and code editing functionalities, and ensuring cross-platform compatibility.

Some of the features of Photon Text Editor are:-

1. Basic features include copy, cut, paste, find, and replace functionalities.
2. Intermediate features include text wrap (char and word wrap), word counter, character counter, line counter, column counter, and automatic text/code recognition.
3. Advanced features include translation (ne), text-to-speech (en), multiple programming language code editing functionality, line wrap.
4. Cross-platform availability (Windows, Linux, and macOS).
5. Modern Graphical User Interface (GUI).
6. Compiler support (for C and C++) and Interpreter support (for Python and Java)

Programming Language:

Photon is developed using python (OOPs Paradigm).

Modules/Libraries

Photon is built using the following 'python' modules/libraries.

1. tkinter
2. customtkinter
3. pillow
4. web-browser
5. googletrans
6. gtts
7. playsound
8. Packaging in python: PyInstaller, py2exe, py2app, and cx_Freeze
9. subprocess
10. datetime
11. time

Screenshots

Photon v1.7.0

Photon v1.6.0

Photon v1.5.0

Photon v1.4.0

Photon v1.3.0

Photon v1.2.0

Photon v1.1.0

Photon v1.0.2

Photon v1.0.1

Photon v1.0.0

Photon v0.0.0

Resources

1. Python tutorial - https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/index.html
2. tkinter tutorial - https://realpython.com/python-gui-tkinter
3. customtkinter tutorial - https://customtkinter.tomschimansky.com/tutorial

Gantt Chart

Outcome

Photon aims to enhance productivity for programmers, writers, and professionals alike. Through the development of this text editor, the project tries to provide a comprehensive solution to the limitations faced by traditional text editors, fostering enhanced user experiences and efficient content management. Photon text editor holds the potential to impact the text editing landscape significantly and could greatly benefit from continuous user feedback and collaborative contributions. To make GUI using python, there are various other libraries like tkinter.ttk, ttkbootstrap, PyQT, PySide, wxPython, etc.