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Updated Dec 25, 2008 by gordebak
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TextRoom  
What is TextRoom?

TextRoom is a simple full-screen text editor heavily inspired by similar text editors such as Q10 and JDarkRoom. Initially it was a personal offshoot of the Phrasis project. It's based on Qt 4.3.2

TextRoom is also on Sourceforge.


Comment by alisasalisa, Jul 26, 2008

I love your work! the project is great. This is the best writer in its kind. Please please please don't quit improving it.

Comment by gordebak, Jul 29, 2008

Thank you alisa. We didn't quit improving it. Recently, only I am responsible from the coding. And I was on vacation for two months (A long vacation? C'mon! ;))

I want to implement some kind of project manager feature soon. A simple one, don't expect an end-of-the-world project manager.

See you.

Comment by tcvulpes, Oct 28, 2008

I just found this program today and it's EXACTLY what I've been looking for. Thank you!

Comment by anderwriter, Nov 10, 2008

Great editor—but tell me we're not actually REQUIRED to indent each line. (Really, the slight space between paragraphs is sufficient.) There's a way to turn that off, right? I tried Ctrl+I, "Indent paragraph", which I thought might unindent, too, but no.

Comment by richard.smol, Feb 24, 2009

Neat, but is there a way to change the font of the main text under Windows? I'd like to use Courier.

Comment by DougEdmunds, Mar 06, 2009

A bug with Changing Fonts:

Anywhere in text: 1. Ctrl-W (select font) 2. Click cancel (or press escape).

Now typing appears on screen using some unknown font, not the font that was being used up to that point.

But font has not been changed in the file. Save and reopen, and the text that appeared in a different font will now be using the font that originally surrounded the text.

Comment by organize...@gmail.com, Apr 24, 2009

I am really enjoying using TextRoom. I was an avid user of Q10 while on Windows.

I have a concern with the time/date stamp. It does not stamp the proper time. Date yes, time no.

Even when I close the app, and reopen later, it still doesn't enter the correct time.

Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty

Comment by JohnRocheleau, May 06, 2009

I used "Darkroom" when I ran with Windows XP, but now I am running with a better crowd and using Linux Ubuntu :-)

So I am very pleased with "TextRoom." I prefer to set the font type/size and column width to the same as my web sites (510 px), so that I have a visual on the paragraph sizes as I write. I'm glad that TextRoom has the options it has.

It would be nice though to see more common fonts included such as "Arial," Lucida Sans Unicode." etc.

Thank you for developing this.

Comment by gordebak, May 15, 2009

Thank you organize..., it's a bug and I hope to make time/date stamp more user-friendly. By now, you can use the time stamp by entering HH:mm (lowercase m's) in the field under Options tab. See you.

Comment by gordebak, May 15, 2009

Thank you JohnRocheleau?. I guess the font selection of Qt4 should show all of your system's fonts. Doesn't it?

Comment by gordebak, May 15, 2009

anderwriter, there used to be an Indent feature, but it was simply a pain when you indent or unindent large files. I removed it. Maybe I should put it back in?

Comment by gordebak, May 15, 2009

DougEdmunds?, yeah I figured that out. Thank you for your insterest and report. I will correct that in the next release.

Comment by gordebak, May 15, 2009

richard.smol, try Ctrl+W. For other shortcuts press F1.

Comment by brett.legree, May 21, 2009

Do you need a hand with the OS X version?

Comment by gordebak, May 23, 2009

Hey Brett, it would be great. I was about to use a pirated version of Mac OS, because I don't have a Mac. If you could compile TextRoom on a Mac, I would be delighted. Email me about anything.

Comment by brett.legree, May 24, 2009

Okay, I'll see what I can do to help out - I'll be in touch soon.

Comment by gordebak, May 24, 2009

Thanks.

Comment by brett.legree, May 25, 2009

I grabbed a copy of QT for Mac last night and will see how far I can get this week.

Comment by liz.powell, May 25, 2009

I think I have my new favourite writing software! I have been dying for something without a large, bulky toolbar but still allowing me to do bold and italics, and, most essentially, with a wordcount. Great stuff!

My only complaint is that your outputted HTML is a bit complex.

Comment by gordebak, May 25, 2009

Brett, you may need to do some adjustments to the code. Ask me about anything.

Hi Liz, thank you for using TextRoom. Output Html is a Qt Rich Text Editor thing. We coded nothing to format the html.

Comment by brett.legree, May 25, 2009

Will do - I was too busy tonight to do anything (kids...) but I'll be digging into it soon and I'll probably have lots of questions ;)

Comment by JCWetzel, Aug 07, 2009

Thank you for TextRoom; less is more in this case.

I'm a little neurotic and would benefit from some control over the blinking cursor; it screams at me and keeps me on edge when I'd prefer to focus on content. Can you help me out with something in the Options?

Comment by trellis, Oct 05, 2009

I used it for a while on Ubuntu. Pretty good. Suddenly the entire user interface has increased in size! I mean the text in the writing area, the chrome around it, the help screen, the option dialog - everything is large font! I tried reinstalling but it's the same. Can you help? In the meantime I am using RubyRoom?, very simple but stable. Thank you.


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