jDarkRoom is a cross platform simple full-screen text editor written in Java
About JDarkRoom JDarkRoom is a popular (http://www.codealchemists.com/jdarkroom/sightings.html), simple full-screen text file editor with none of the usual bells and whistles that might distract you from the job in hand. If you are writing a speech, novel, essay, thesis or just need to be able to concentrate on your writing, then JDarkRoom may help you.
I have released JDarkRoom under the umbrella of CodeAlchemists (http://www.codealchemists.com/). Please donate (http://www.codealchemists.com/jdarkroom/#donate) if you find this software useful - it encourages me to add features and fix bugs (http://bugs.codealchemists.com).
The development of JDarkRoom was heavily inspired by DarkRoom (http://they.misled.us/archives/501), an implementation of WriteRoom (http://www.hogbaysoftware.com/product/writeroom) (which is a Mac-only application) for Windows, but DarkRoom requires the Microsoft .NET framework. I decided to create my own implementation in Java (http://java.com/getjava) for those that prefer not to use .NET.
Features - Change your colour preferences, font and font size - via the settings screen (F6)
- JDarkRoom remembers the file that you were working on last time
- Support for central-european character sets
- JDarkRoom notifies you if you might have forgotten to save your changes
- Word/line/character count (Ctrl-L)
- Specify a file on the command-line for JDarkRoom to open it at startup
- Text antialiasing (where possible)
- Mouse-wheel scrolling
- Adjustable margins to fit any screen resolution (F9 to reset)
- Auto-save backups - so you never lose your work again
- Text search (F7 / Ctrl-F)
- A command-reminder strip can be displayed at the bottom of the screen
- Export to HTML using Markdown (http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/basics)
- Goal feature - displays number of words required to reach a specific goal
- Inherit indentation
- Convert tabs to spaces
- Insert timestamp feature - with configurable timestamp format
- 'No Delete' mode
- 'Typewriter scrolling' mode (experimental)
- A choice of file encodings (default: UTF-8)
Screenshots (http://www.codealchemists.com/jdarkroom/sc_1_thumb.png) (http://www.codealchemists.com/jdarkroom/sc_1.png) (http://www.codealchemists.com/jdarkroom/sc_2_thumb.png) (http://www.codealchemists.com/jdarkroom/sc_2.png) (http://www.codealchemists.com/jdarkroom/sc_3_thumb.png) (http://www.codealchemists.com/jdarkroom/sc_3.png)
[ More JDarkRoom sightings (http://www.codealchemists.com/jdarkroom/sightings.html) ]
Donations JDarkRoom is supported entirely by the adverts you see on the right and by donations. Please consider donating, even 5 €/$/£ helps.
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Download To run JDarkRoom, you need to have Java 1.5 (http://java.com/getjava) or greater installed (Java 6 is recommended). Mac OS X comes pre-loaded with Java so you don't need to worry.
JDarkRoom version 15-beta (http://www.codealchemists.com/jdarkroom/windows-icon.png) | Windows (installer) (http://www.codealchemists.com/jdarkroom/download.php?file=JDarkRoom-install.exe) | (283KB) |
(http://www.codealchemists.com/jdarkroom/mac-icon.png) | Mac (zipped application) (http://www.codealchemists.com/jdarkroom/download.php?file=JDarkRoom-mac.zip) | (332KB) |
(http://www.codealchemists.com/jdarkroom/mac-icon.png)(http://www.codealchemists.com/jdarkroom/linux-icon.png) | Mac / Linux (JAR file) (http://www.codealchemists.com/jdarkroom/download.php?file=JDarkRoom.jar) | (216KB) |
JDarkRoom version 14 User Guide Download (http://www.codealchemists.com/jdarkroom/docs/JDarkRoom_14_User_Guide.pdf) (PDF, 96KB)
Once the program has fully downloaded, you should be able to double-click on it and it should run straightaway. If you download the JAR version, an alternative is to open a command prompt, navigate to the directory where you downloaded the program, then type java -jar JDarkRoom.jar
Mac users: You should be able to double-click the downloaded ZIP file, open the JDarkRoom directory, then drag JDarkRoom to your Applications folder, or to the Dock.
http://www.codealchemists.com/jdarkroom/ (http://www.codealchemists.com/jdarkroom/)