DAWNO - Professional PAWN IDE

A powerful, modern IDE for SA-MP and open.mp development

Features • Tech Stack • Installation • Building • Contributing

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Overview

DAWNO is a professional-grade PAWN code editor designed specifically for SA-MP (San Andreas Multiplayer) and open.mp developers. It serves as a modern, high-performance alternative to the classic Pawno editor, built with cutting-edge web technologies.

Features

🎨 Modern Interface

• VS Code-inspired design with native dark mode
• Sleek and intuitive user experience
• Monaco Editor integration for premium text editing

✨ Editor Capabilities

• Advanced syntax highlighting for PAWN language
• Intelligent code completion
• Find & Replace with regex support
• Minimap navigation
• Word wrap toggle
• Go to Line functionality
• Smooth scrolling experience

🔧 Server Management

• Integrated server start/stop/restart controls
• Live console log tracking
• Automatic detection of server executables (samp-server.exe, omp-server.exe)
• Configuration file editor (server.cfg, config.json)

📦 Source Control

• Complete Git integration from sidebar
• Stage, commit, push, pull operations
• Visual diff viewer
• .gitignore management

🌐 Internationalization

• Built-in support for 13 languages:
  • Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish, Vietnamese

💬 Discord Integration

• Rich Presence showing current project and file
• Real-time status updates

🔄 Auto-Save

• Configurable auto-save with customizable delay
• Never lose your work

📝 Encoding Support

• Multiple character encodings
• Full Turkish (Windows-1254) support
• Instant encoding switching

Tech Stack

Technology	Purpose
Electron	Desktop application shell
Next.js	React-based UI framework
Monaco Editor	High-performance code editor
TypeScript	Type-safe development
iconv-lite	Character encoding conversion

Installation

Prerequisites

• Node.js v18 or higher
• npm or yarn

Steps

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/deksdeveloper/dawno.git

# Navigate to project directory
cd dawno

# Install root dependencies
npm install

# Install renderer dependencies
npm run postinstall

# Start development mode
npm run dev

Building

Development Mode

# Run Next.js dev server
npm run dev:next

# Or run Electron directly with dev tools
npm run dev

Production Build

# Build and package for Windows (x64)
npm run package

This command will:

1. Compile the Next.js renderer
2. Package the Electron application for Windows x64
3. Generate a professional installer using Inno Setup

Project Structure

dawno/
├── main.js              # Electron main process
├── preload.js           # Preload script for IPC
├── package.json         # Root dependencies & scripts
├── assets/              # Application icons
├── renderer/            # Next.js frontend
│   ├── app/             # Next.js App Router pages
│   ├── components/      # React components
│   ├── context/         # React context providers
│   ├── hooks/           # Custom React hooks
│   ├── i18n/            # Internationalization
│   ├── pawn-lib/        # PAWN language definitions
│   ├── public/          # Static assets
│   └── styles/          # Global styles
├── scripts/             # Build scripts
└── LICENSE

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request.

1. Fork the repository
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b feature/amazing-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -m 'Add amazing feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin feature/amazing-feature)
5. Open a Pull Request

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

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Made with ❤️ for SA-MP & open.mp developers