I’ve started to work on ePen again. This time, I’m using Java and SWT/JFace. Python Traits was nice but too slow for my purpose, especially the editor.
This is the main window. As you can see, there is an outline with all characters, places, items, wiki pages and books (with chapters and scenes). The whole thing is meant to save all the information in one place so you can easily find and use them.
Do you see all those nice links? The editor will create them for you from names of characters and other things. If you click on them, you’ll jump right to the meat. I’m thinking of a hover mode where you get a summary but there is a bug somewhere.
The other feature is: No save button. The editor will save your work as you type. If it crashes or your whole computer crashes or there is a power failure? No sweat. Worked for an hour and forgot to save? Won’t happen again. I’m still working on automated backups plus a client/server mode so you can have automatic off-site backups, too.
Right now, I’m shaving off a few rough edges. Then, I’ll drop it on sourceforge.
[EDIT] The project home page is at http://sourceforge.net/projects/epen/
Tagged: ePen, Java, JFace, SWT
