StrawPen

Basic Text Editor.

Windows-10

Linux-KDE

What it is

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- StrawPen is a basic text editor running on ImGui/GLFW/OpenGL backend.

Features

• Create/read/write/save/rename/delete ASCII files
• Directory Explorer for working efficiently within a directory
• Multiple Tabs to work with multiple text files simulatenously

Pre-Requisites:

• Cmake (3.31 or above) : The build system
• C/C++ compiler : (tested on: MSVC/gcc/clang)

Dependencies

• StrawPlate library: https://github.com/LightShade12/StrawPlate

Building

System: Cmake ( v3.27 <= v3.31.6 <= )

Build supports: Windows, Linux

Pre-Requisites:

• StrawPlate library git submodule (clone this repo with --recursive)
• Linux : GLFW package from AUR

One-click build :

build.bat (Windows) :

• Run build.bat from repo root
• The executable strawpen_rel.exe is now in build/bin

build.sh (Linux) :

• Run chmod +x build.sh from repo root (adds executable priviledge to the script)
• Run build.sh
• The executable strawpen_rel is now in build/bin

CmakeLists.txt

• Run cmake -B ./build in repo directory(where CmakeLists.txt resides).
• Now run cd ./build && cmake --build . --config Release.This will start the compilation and linking with StrawPlate library and build the executable.
• The output executable and runtime assets can now be found in build/bin

License

StrawPen is licensed under MIT License.

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