announcing mothpad, a text editor for picocalc. works with pelrun’s bootloader and the pico2 and 2w.
this is designed to work a bit like a small word processor, with familiar menus, and behavior that tries to match what you would intuitively expect for that-sort-of-thing. suitable for note-taking, journaling, knocking out little scripts. use the picocalc as a little writer-deck. it has a file browser that lets you peek at the contents of text files while you browse directories. it has file/edit/select/view menus on f1 through f4, a simple calculator on f5, text selection with shift+arrow keys, copy and paste, undo. a screensaver. ships as a uf2, copy to /pico2-apps for use with pelrun’s loader.
this is llm-authored software, but i assert it works correctly, i tested it thoroughly.
i didnt mean to test it this way, but i accidentally burned the uf2 loader text into the screen and i was able to scrub it off again with the mothpad screensaver, so im glad that works. im not 100% sure it was the screensaver but it seems to have helped.
I have been messing around with it, works pretty well. My only suggestion is to add some alternative color schemes, I like white on blue for my text editors.
good idea, ive put that in the new build along with some other small ui fixes.
so it has… you can set a hex code for the foreground and background colors, if you type like 123 itll convert that like 112233. you can ctrl+r to reset the original colors if you accidentally set it to something unreadable, and also added a way to invert the colors.
