rohankhayech / texteditor

Demo text editor project featuring a multi-module plugin API, Python scripting and a custom keyboard shortcut DSL.

Text Editor

Extendable text editor demo project written in Java for a university assignment.

Author: Rohan Khayech

Features

• Basic text editor functionality with GUI built with JavaFX.
• Support for loading/saving files in UTF-8, UTF-16 and UTF-32 encoding.
• Multi-module configuration using Gradle.
• Extendable via a plugin API with example plugins included.
• Runtime loading of plugins using reflection.
• Extendable via Python scripting intepreted with Jython, with an example script included.
• Custom DSL and parser for configuring keyboard shortcuts built with JavaCC.
• Localisation support for language, date and number format, with example Dutch translation included.

How to Run

Run the following terminal command in the root directory:

> ./gradlew run

Example Plugins/Scripts

• Find Plugin ( texteditor.FindPlugin ): Plugin for finding a specified phrase.
• Date Plugin ( texteditor.DatePlugin ): Inserts a localised string representing the current date at the cursor position.
• Emoji Script ( /scripts/emoji.py ): Replaces ':-)' with a smiley face emoji.