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About Notepad X

Notepad X is an alternative open source text editor for Microsoft Windows, with a lot of customization options created to help users managing text documents, featuring tab navigation.

The current version is the Notepad X v2 (Build 5), and its developed with Microsoft C# using the .Net 2.0 framework.
Some of new versions main features are :

  • Better management of the documents, settings and the whole application.
  • Option to create custom plug-ins to expand the application features.
  • Option to modify all the available shortcut keys.
  • Custom translations & tool bars for the application.
  • Custom icons.
  • Syntax highlighting when writing programming languages.
  • Download manager for easily download of customizations.

Version 2.0 is currently under development.
Notepad X is released under GNU General Public License (GPL).

Credits of Notepad X

Notepad X uses :

History of Notepad X

The development of Notepad X started the summer of 2007, it was one of my first successful attempts to create a text editor after a lot of efforts.The basic idea was to replace the Windows Notepad with something better. It was developed with Microsoft VB .Net , the main feature of the first release (0.6.0 Alpha) was the tabbed navigation system which released on 13/8/2007. The development continued with a lot of version been released, all that period new features imported to the notepad,*but I had realized that this wasn’t enough.
So i decided to develop the application from scratch, Notepad X get grammatically improved, the first public release of the build 2 was on 16/9/2007 with the 0.8.0 Alpha version. Notepad X continued to get improved as it started to become known to the public, the development of the Build 2 was stopped after i release the 0.8.6 Alpha version on 24/11/2007, because for one more time i wasn’t pleased with it.

The development was friezed for a while, on 26/1/2008 i released the first pre-Beta version 0.9, Notepad X get was getting better and better including even more features, but after the 2nd release of the 3rd Build the version 0.9.1 Beta on 4/2/2008, the development was friezed for a long period. I tried to redevelop the Notepad X once more but  I wasn’t satisfied with the results and never released them. After almost 1 year, i learned a lot of new programming languages so i was getting more experience. On March of 2009 i decided to begin from scratch for one more time but this time i used the Visual C# instead of the Visual Basic.Net , this gave the application a lot of new possibilities and features, Notepad X v2 (Build 5) was created, but it’s still under development.

About the Developers

NohponeX

Role : All-Hands Person

My real name is Xenophon, I m 3rd class high school student, living in a city called Katerini in Greece. I begin my first steps with computer programming on 2006 by creating HTML web pages I also was trying to learn c++, but it was too much for a beginner like me. After reading some articles for Visual Basic Script I learned my first things about programming. After that I was using Visual Basic 6.0 and .Net 2005 later. I started to learn more languages after the winter of 2008, some of them was actionscript (for Flash and Flex) ,php , SQL, Java, C++ and C# which I liked too much so I decided to develop with C# the new version of Notepad X.