Simple Note pad python with tkinter

Simple Note pad python with tkinter

overall a working notepad

 This is a simple note pad where we can  write any note and  save it on the required folder

 It provide following applications:-

• New- for creating new file
• open - for opening previous text file
• exit- to exit note pad
• copy- to copy selected text
• paste - to paste copied text
• cut- to cut selected text
• Save - for saving existing note

Screen short of notepad

import tkinter as tk

from tkinter import*

from tkinter import messagebox, filedialog

import os

from genericpath import samefile

def createWidgets():

    global textArea

    textArea = Text(root)

    textArea.grid(sticky=N+E+S+W)

    menuBar = Menu(root)

    root.config(menu=menuBar)

    # for dropdown file menue

    fileMenu = Menu(menuBar, tearoff=0)

    fileMenu.add_command(label="New", command=newFile)

    fileMenu.add_command(label="Open", command=openFile)

    fileMenu.add_command(label="Save", command=saveFile)

    fileMenu.add_separator()

    fileMenu.add_command(label="Exit", command=exitfile)

    menuBar.add_cascade(label="file", menu=fileMenu)

    # for dropdown edit menue

    editMenu = Menu(menuBar, tearoff=0)

    editMenu.add_command(label="Copy", command=copy)

    editMenu.add_command(label="Cut", command=cut)

    editMenu.add_command(label="Paste", command=paste)

    menuBar.add_cascade(label="Edit", menu=editMenu)

    

    # for dropdown help menue

    helpMenu = Menu(menuBar, tearoff=0)

    helpMenu.add_command(label="About Notepad", command=about)

    menuBar.add_cascade(label="Help", menu=helpMenu)

def about():

    messagebox.showinfo(

        "Notpad", "This simple notepad is devolped by Qamar and integrated by Sandeep")

def newFile():

    global textArea

    root.title("Untitle -Notepad")

    file = None

    textArea.delete(1.0, END)

def openFile():

    global textArea

    file = filedialog.askopenfile(defaultextension=".txt", filetypes=[

                                  ("All files", "*.*"), ("text Document", "*.txt")])

    file = file.name

    if file == "":

        file = None

    else:

        root.title(os.path.basename(file)+" - Notepad")

        textArea.delete(1.0, END)

        file = open(file, "rb")

        textArea.insert(1.0, file.read())

        file.close()

def saveFile():

    global textArea, file

    if file == None:

        file = filedialog.asksaveasfilename(initialfile="Untitled.txt", defaultextension=".txt", filetypes=[

                                            ("All files", "*.*"), ("text Document", "*.txt")])

        if file == None:

            file = None

        else:

            file = open(file, "w")

            file.write(textArea.get(1.0, END))

            file.close()

            file.name

            root.title(os.path.basename(file) + " -Notepad")

    else:

        file = open(file, "w")

        file.write(textArea.get(1.0, END))

        file.close()

def exitfile():

    root.destroy()

def cut():

    global textArea

    textArea.event_generate("<<Cut>>")

def copy():

    global textArea

    textArea.event_generate("<<Copy>>")

def paste():

    global textArea

    textArea.event_generate("<<Paste>>")

root = tk.Tk()

root.title("untitle - notepad")

file = None

createWidgets()

root.mainloop()