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TEKST BOKS's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| How much I could potentially use it in the future | #13 | 3.125 | 3.125 |
| Overall | #22 | 3.042 | 3.042 |
| How nice it is to use | #24 | 3.250 | 3.250 |
| How innovative or original it is | #28 | 2.750 | 2.750 |
Ranked from 8 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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Much like your todo list, the simplicity of this really hits the spot for when you just want to type. Nice job :)
Very nice little text editor, after see in your submission I challenged myself to make a fully functional text editor in Godot with custom syntax highlighting. It was a job for sure and I would like to congrats you on your very good execution.
Nice tool, You forgot to compile as a release for windows because when I run It I can see the godot logs of the app.
I also did something similar, but for little text and images (https://misterm.itch.io/myworknotes)
Hi thanks for the reply, but can you explain a bit more on the issue with the windows build? (I'm still learning)
I liked the idea that you went with in your app however, I thought of this app as a rough text box that you could just throw text in and take it back whenever you needed it. Not exactly sticky notes more like just a piece of paper.
When I open your app I see 2 windows (1 is the debug and the other is your application)
When you export uncheck the flag "export with debug" and will open only the application
Hi! thanks for your reply. Auto-Saving text was the initial reason I wanted to make an app like this. I'm happy that you love it. :D
I used the web version and noticed it said it was "for showcase only." How is it different from the other builds? It might be good to add this to the description.
A few other things I noticed in the web version:
The ' character seems to be treated as quotes, I think? So if I write "I don't know" then "t know" (everything after the ' -- even on new lines) is colored differently until I use a ' again. This is a little odd when using it for non-programming language, in contractions (like "isn't" and "it's"). The " character is not treated in the same way.
Also there doesn't seem to be recognition of any hotkey for jumping between words with left/right arrow keys (option on mac, ctrl on pc). I don't think I tried Home or End though.
Thanks for sharing!
Hi thanks for your reply but,
-The web build is totally useless as this tool is supposed to be a movable text box on your screen that auto saves everything the moment you type it.
-I do not understand what you are talking about as I did not see the problem? Can you elaborate what you meant
it recognizes both ' and " as quotes.
-The hotkeys work or me. I'm on Linux and pressing Ctrl while pressing left/right arrow key seems to jump between words. I have not tested this build on Windows though.
Thanks for the clarification! It might be good to put that extra bit of information about the web build in the description, or maybe consider removing the web build entirely if it is "totally useless," just to make sure people use the better version. In my experience, people usually choose the web build first, because then they don't have to download anything. (I do this too, I confess.)
About quotes:
There were two issues with quotes I was trying to describe. After checking again, though, I was only able to reproduce one of the issues -- I think I just got confused about the other one.
The reproducible "issue" is just that when we write English, we often use the single-quote character (') interchangeably as an apostrophe (for example, when we write "it's okay" or "we'll be fine"). This means that if you're using TEKST BOKS to write normal English (especially American English, where the single-quote character is almost never used for quotations) the formatting looks strange, because it treats the apostrophe like it is being used for quotation. You can see this in the image below:
This isn't an issue at all if you're only writing code, of course. From the description, though, I imagined using this to take notes and write todos, which would be natural English (not code). Does this make sense?
The non-reproducible issue was that only single-quotes (') seemed to be triggering the formatting change, whereas double-quotes (") didn't. But I think I probably just didn't notice an earlier single-quote, so all my tests of double-quotes were inside a single-quote. (Like where it says "Hi, Ed" in the screenshot.) So I think this isn't an issue, just confusion on my end.
About hotkeys:
I'm testing on Firefox in OSX. I've tried Command, Control, and Option, but none of these jump between words. It may just be an issue with the web build, though -- I have not tested the mac build.
Oh, I didn't realize that the single quotations might produce a problem in normal English. I will remove that as soon as the jam ends. About the web build though I didn't think that many people would download it, so I added the web build, so they could test before they download. But I might remove the web build, I don't know.
Thanks for telling me the issue!
I have to ask, why the blinking border? It makes the app pretty much unusable.
Hi thanks for your reply. The request to change themes was made by a comment on the itch.io page of this ap and as adding buttons might destroy the initial idea behind the app I just added a simple blinking background that changes colour every 2 second.
How does that makes it useless tho? It's supposed to be a movable text box on your screen.
It’s very distracting. Like if someone was standing next to me saying, “Hey!” every 2 seconds.
Except now I’m expected to have a conversation with them and they continue to say “Hey!” every 2 seconds.
Hi thanks for your reply. The request to change themes was made by a comment on the itch.io page of this ap and as adding buttons might destroy the initial idea behind the app I just added a simple blinking background that changes colour every 2 second.
How does that makes it useless tho? It's supposed to be a movable text box on your screen.