# Dark Room

# Overview

Dark Room is a full screen, distraction free, writing environment. Unlike standard word processors that focus on features, Dark Room is just about you and your text.

Basically, Dark Room is a clone of the original WriteRoom that is an OS X (tiger) exclusive application. It is a child of necessity, as there were no viable alternatives in Windows to produce the same behavior. Sure, you can kind of emulate the behavior by jumping through a bunch of hoops in Word/Writer, but it isn’t the same. Also, you can do something similar in emacs, but who wants to learn a bunch of obscure keyboard shortcuts?

The goal of the project is to capture the essence of WriteRoom, while keeping it simple and just as free.

# Download

**[Version 0.8b](http://github.com/downloads/jjafuller/DarkRoomW/dark_room_0.8b.zip)**

# Requirements

* Windows XP / 2000 / 2003 / Vista / 10
* .NET Framework 2.0

# Keyboard Shortcuts

* **File Menu**
	* Clear Document: Ctrl+N
	* Open Document: Ctrl+O
	* Save Document: Ctrl+S
	* Quit: Ctrl+Q
* **Edit Menu**
	* Undo: Ctrl+Z
	* Redo: Ctrl+Y
	* Cut: Ctrl+X
	* Copy: Ctrl+C
	* Paste: Ctrl+V
	* Select All: Ctrl+A
	* Find: Ctrl+F
	* Find Next: F3
	* Preferences: Ctrl+,
* **View Menu**
	* Statistics: Ctrl+/
	* Toggle Fullscreen: F11 or Esc

# Change Log

0.8b (report bugs)
* ADDED: Neutral highlighting
* ADDED: Cursor blink rate control

0.7.6.2b
* FIXED: Ability to open files with accented characters
* FIXED: Text modification state preserved when preferences changed
* FIXED: Window title not updating when file saved
* FIXED: Crash when config file is write protected
* FIXED: Files saved with Unix line breaks
* FIXED: Wordcount RegEx

0.7.6.1b
* FIXED: FileNotFoundException when caching preferences
* CHANGED: Text of statistics shortcut from ctrl+? to ctrl+/ to be less confusing

0.7.6b
* ADDED: Display active filename
* ADDED: Keyboard shortcut for statistics window
* ADDED: Settings cached locally for increaed portability
* FIXED: Change font/color causes text to disappear until preference pane brought up again
* FIXED: Coping entire lines and pasting results in final carraige return not being pasted
* FIXED: Error message for invalid height says width
* FIXED: No error message for invalid margin

0.7.5b
* Added check for updates menu option
* Added auto indent option
* Added drag and drop onto page to open file
* Fixed a bug that prevented tabs to spaces from taking effect until restart
* Removed resizable borders on dialogs
* Optimized page width in non-maximized window
* Fixed a bug that resulted in crash when using page setup without any installed printers
* Optimzied preferences dialog layout

0.7.1b
* Fixed a bug that reverted tabs to spaces to three instead of custom value

0.7b
* Added Statistics dialog
* Added Menu item to launch dark room website
* Added ability to enable/disable local cache file
* Added convert tabs to spaces
* Printing now uses document font
* Fixed a bug the preventing printing the first character
* Fixed a bug that made the margin disappear when auto-width selected.
* Fixed a bug that prevent multiple monitors from working correctly.

0.6.2b
* Fixed a bug causing the program to crash if there is no text to cut/copy.
* Fixed a bug that resulted in a crash when enabling multi-monitor support.
* Disabled “URL detection”

0.6.1b
* Fixed “process hog” problem related to autosave interval
* Fixed allow tabs in writing area
* Fixed preferences access from context menu

0.6b
* Added launch modes (restore buffer, open last file, clean document)
* Redone preferences dialog
* Converted to C#
* A bunch (mostly little inconsistences that I noticed while converting)

0.5.1b
* Fixed order of Find and Find Next in Edit menu
* Font, Page, and Background color dialog defaults to current color instead of black
* Fixed find next bug that would not allow find to advance to next word

0.5b
* Added optional Transparency
* Added Rudementary Printing Support
* Added optional Autosave (once a minute)
* Added Find
* Added Content Cached in a local file to increase portability
* Fixed Save As bug, now can save as repeatedly
* Fixed Text Formatting bug, now stripped when copied to clipboard

0.4b
* Removed rogue formatting in document (shortcut keys, etc…)

0.3.9b
* Fixed a bug that caused Dark Room to quit if save dialog is canceled
* Fixed a bug where the font color button did not update when color was changed
* Fixed a bug that caused the “save changes” prompt to come up while closing regardless of whether or not the document changed
* Fixed a bug that prompted a “save as” dialog when attempting to save a file that was opened using “Open With”
* Added Ctrl+, as a shortcut for preferences
* Added an About Page
* Added option not to open in fullscreen mode
* Added option to open to a clean page
* Added a crappy icon

0.3.2b
* Fixed a multiple monitor bug that shaded the primary monitor when app is not maximized
* Added a warning to save when closing (if document modified)
* Fixed a bug that allowed user to overwrite a previous file if they created a new file, and used ctrl+s to save

0.3.1b
* Font dialog now defaults to current font
* Multiple, vertical monitors now supported

0.3b
* Added keyboard shortcut to exit (Ctrl+Q)
* Added “Open with Dark Room” context menu integration option
* Added Multiple Monitor Support (shades monitors not in use)
* Added ability to open “All Files (*.*)”
* Added ability to scroll with mouse wheel
* Added a context menu
* Changed redo from Ctrl+Shft+Z to common Ctrl+Y
* Corrected paste to remove formatting information
* Changed application name from “WindowsApplication1” to Dark Room
* Fixed the ability to associate Dark Rom with text files

0.2b
* Added Multiple Undo and Redo
* Fixed crash when Save As dialog is cancelled
* Removed scrollbar, replaced with simple navigation bar
* Removed exit shortcut key to allievate conflict with cut command
* Preferences dialog revamped
* Added page height preferences
* Added automatic page width and height setting