dartText

Introduction

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dartText is a comprehensive text editor with many tools for working with text.

Originally, it was created as a simple Windows Notepad replacement. It was made during an occasion that I was doing some mining on EveOnline, and I wanted to keep myself amused. There was no movement on it for a long while, then I came to a situation where I wanted a more comprehensive editor so it got very seriously updated.

If you so wish, it will still present as a simple Windows 10 Era Notepad. But its now so very much more.

With this was the advent of '.dtProj' project files. These allow you to manage and organize your files no matter where they are on your computer. Files can be double clicked to edit. While strictly dartText is a SDI (Single Document Interface), projects allow you to switch the file you are editing quickly and easily. A dartText Project also acts like a master project, as some special files require the project pane. You can easily jump back to the dartText project though.

These special files now include demScribble files '.scrib' and Sectioned Text Files '.ctd' or '.stxt' and both dartNote-it '.dartnoteit', and dartTo-Do Simple '.darttodosimple' files. These are from other applications, but dartText has very strong tools for working with text which makes it very useful. In the case of dartTo-Do and dartNote-it the files are actually somewhat enhanced and functionality certainly is.

demScribble file editing is a leaner, cut down version of editing the files, but allow the strong text tools, but still having access to the necessary fields from demScribble one might need. For full functionality demScribble is very much still available.

dartText itself replaces both dartEdit and demNotepad in our line up and offers project imports for those applications. To our knowledge we've replaced or duplicated the functionality from those applications, so dartText is the clear choice.

There are a variety of export options available, and there is also a new type called '.ctxt' which is essentially just a ZLIB compressed plain text file. Now there are '.crtf' files that are the same idea for rich text files. You can find a copy of the readme file in this format in the installation directory. We actually use it as the master document. Compressing these files saves space on your computer of course and the compression is very fast so it's barely any notice when loading and saving to these formats.