How to build tfe (text file editor)

How to compile and execute the text editor ‘tfe’.

First, source files are in the Gtk4-tutorila repository. How to download them is written at the end of the previous section.

The following is the instruction of compilation and execution.

• You need meson and ninja.
• If you have installed gtk4 from the source, you need to set environment variables to suit your installation.
• Change your current directory to src/tfe5 directory.
• Type meson _build for configuration.
• Type ninja -C _build for compilation. Then the application tfe is built under the _build directory.
• Type _build/tfe to execute it.

Then the window appears. There are four buttons, New, Open, Save and Close.

• Click on Open button, then a FileChooserDialog appears. Choose a file in the list and click on Open button. Then the file is read and a new Notebook Page appears.
• Edit the file and click on Save button, then the text is saved to the original file.
• Click Close, then the Notebook Page disappears.
• Click Close again, then the Untitled Notebook Page disappears and at the same time the application quits.

This is a very simple editor. It is a good practice for you to add more features.

Total number of lines, words and characters

$ LANG=C wc tfe5/meson.build tfe5/tfeapplication.c tfe5/tfe.gresource.xml tfe5/tfenotebook.c tfe5/tfenotebook.h tfetextview/tfetextview.c tfetextview/tfetextview.h tfe5/tfe.ui
   10    17   294 tfe5/meson.build
  101   308  3274 tfe5/tfeapplication.c
    6     9   153 tfe5/tfe.gresource.xml
  145   387  3667 tfe5/tfenotebook.c
   15    21   241 tfe5/tfenotebook.h
  239   863  9264 tfetextview/tfetextview.c
   35    60   701 tfetextview/tfetextview.h
   61   100  2073 tfe5/tfe.ui
  612  1765 19667 total