Beta release of Pypad. Introduces a lot of improvements, polishing touches, expands on the settings page and fixes the 2nd most annoying bug: copy and paste.
Future relases could include the addition of Pypad to the Arch User Repository, the restructuring of the code to remove or vendorize a cross-platform alternative to Xterm (currently a dependency), in turn allowing for the creation of a Windows port.
The removal of Xterm would also allow for the entire project to be uncompiled. Unlike GCC, PyInstaller actually resolves bugs. In an uncompiled state (running from pmain.py instead of 'pypad' executable), upon exiting the program, an Xterm instance remains running within the Python interpreter, leaving something short of 80 terminals running in the background before displaying an error of too many instances. This does not happen in the compiled executable. As such, running pmain.py outside of debugging is not recommended at this time.
The release introduces:
- Vendorized packages
Since Pypad uses both precompiled (with packages using PyInstaller) and uncompiled, raw Python scripts (with packages), I have vendorized Python packages. - An install and uninstall script
- Copy and paste capabilities
Through Ctrl+Shift+C and Ctrl+Shift+V respectively. - Expanded the settings page
- Customizable starting window coordinates
- Customizable window width & height
- Dynamic tile resizing
- Changed single to double numlock exit
Numlock's arrow keys can now be utilized for easy navigation. - Ensured only a single instance of Pypad is running at any given time.
- General bug fixes and optimizations
- Removed Herobrine
