from guizero import App, Box, Combo, PushButton, Slider, Text, TextBox from pathlib import Path app_name = 'Simple Text Editor' app_version = '1' app_verdate = '08-DEC-2019' app_version_string = app_name + ' v' + app_version + ' (' + app_verdate + ')' app = App(title=app_version_string, bg='slategray', width=800, height=600) folder = '.' def get_folder(): name = file_name_text_box.value if name is None: return '.' elif len(name) == 0: return '.' else: return Path(name).parent def about_editor(): app.info('About', app_version_string + "\nA simple Python guizero based text editor") return def open_file(): f = get_folder() name = app.select_file('Open file', folder=f, filetypes=[["Text files", "*.txt"], ["Markdown files", "*.md"]], save=False) if name is None: return if len(name) == 0: return try: with open(name, "r") as f: editor.value = f.read() except Exception as e: app.error('Read Error', 'Error in reading file: ' + str(e)) return file_name_text_box.value= name # function for writing files def save_file(): name = file_name_text_box.value if name is None: save_as_file() return if len(name) == 0: save_as_file() return try: with open(name, "w") as f: f.write(editor.value) except Exception as e: app.error('Write Error', 'Error in reading file: ' + str(e)) return def save_as_file(): f = get_folder() name = app.select_file('Save file', folder=f, filetypes=[["Text files", "*.txt"], ["Markdown files", "*.md"]], save=True) if name is None: return if len(name) == 0: return try: with open(name, "w") as f: f.write(editor.value) except Exception as e: app.error('Write Error', 'Error in reading file: ' + str(e)) return file_name_text_box.value = name def new_file(): file_name_text_box.value = '' editor.value = '' def change_font(): editor.font = font.value def change_text_color(): editor.text_color = text_color.value def change_text_size(): editor.text_size = size.value editor.resize(1, 1) editor.resize("fill", "fill") file_controls = Box(app, width='fill') file_name_label = Text(file_controls, text='File: ', align="left") file_name_text_box = TextBox(file_controls, text='', width='fill', align="left", enabled=False) file_name_text_box.bg = 'white' about_button = PushButton(file_controls, text="About", align="right", command=about_editor) save_as_button = PushButton(file_controls, text="Save as...", align="right", command=save_as_file) save_button = PushButton(file_controls, text="Save", align="right", command=save_file) open_button = PushButton(file_controls, text="Open...", align="right", command=open_file) new_button = PushButton(file_controls, text="New", align="right", command=new_file) preferences_controls = Box(app, align="top", width="fill", border=True) font = Combo(preferences_controls, options=["Courier", "Times New Roman", "Verdana"], align="left", selected='Verdana', command=change_font) size = Slider(preferences_controls, align="left", command=change_text_size, start=10, end=18) size.value = 10 text_color = Combo(preferences_controls, options=['black', 'blue', 'red', 'magenta', 'yellow'], align="left", selected='black', command=change_text_color) editor = TextBox(app, multiline=True, height="fill", width="fill", scrollbar=True) editor.bg = 'white' editor.font = font.value editor.text_size = size.value editor.text_color = text_color.value app.display()