Morse-Translator

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A compact, feature-rich Morse Code ⇄ Text translator with CLI, GUI, and REST API. Bidirectional conversions for letters, numbers, and common punctuation with built-in validation.

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📸 Screenshots

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🚀 Features

• Text ↔ Morse: bidirectional conversion for A–Z, 0–9, and common punctuation
• Validation: checks Morse syntax (allowed: ., -, /, space; max 6 chars per token)
• Interactive CLI: menu-driven experience via main.py
• Desktop GUI: responsive customtkinter-based UI with text/Morse input fields and toggle switch
• REST API: FastAPI with versioned routes (/v1) and interactive docs at /docs
• Installable package: global morse command after pip install -e .
• CLI flags: single-shot conversions (-t, -m, -vm, -ui)

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📦 Installation

1. Clone and create virtual environment:

git clone https://github.com/amirhossein77-98/Morse-Translator.git
cd Morse-Translator
python3 -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate  # On Windows: .venv\Scripts\activate

2. Install dependencies:

pip install -e .

Installs the project in development mode with the global morse CLI entry point.

Alternative environments:

• pipenv: pipenv install --dev && pipenv shell
• poetry: poetry install && poetry shell
• uv: uv sync (if initialized with uv)

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🖥 Usage

Direct run

Interactive menu:

python3 main.py

CLI args

All flags are mutually exclusive. Use / (space-slash-space) to separate words in Morse.

Text to Morse:

python3 main.py -t "Hello World"
morse -t "Hello World"  # After pip install -e .

Morse to Text:

python3 main.py -m ".... . .-.. .-.. --- / .-- --- .-. .-.. -.."

Validate Morse:

python3 main.py -vm ".... . .-.. .-.. ---"

GUI

Launch the responsive customtkinter GUI:

python3 main.py -ui
morse -ui  # After pip install -e .

Features:

• Toggle between "Text to Morse" and "Morse to Text" via switch
• Real-time input/output textboxes
• Validation for Morse input
• Responsive grid layout, centered widgets

API

Start the FastAPI server:

uvicorn api.app:app --reload

Open http://127.0.0.1:8000/docs for interactive API docs.

Example endpoints (base: /v1):

# GET
curl "http://127.0.0.1:8000/v1/text-to-morse/hello"
curl "http://127.0.0.1:8000/v1/morse-to-text/--"
curl "http://127.0.0.1:8000/v1/validate-morse/--"

# POST
curl -X POST "http://127.0.0.1:8000/v1/text-to-morse" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"text":"hello"}'

Response format:

{
  "original_text": "hello",
  "translated_text": ".... . .-.. .-.. ---"
}

Installable morse package

After pip install -e ., use the global morse command:

morse -t "Hello"
morse -m ".... . .-.. .-.. ---"
morse -vm "..."
morse -ui

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🔧 Testing

Run unit and API tests (no server startup needed):

python3 -m unittest discover -v        # All tests
python3 -m unittest test.api_tests     # API only
python3 -m unittest test.converter_tests  # Converter only

Note: Tests use unittest and FastAPI TestClient. Ensure no stray Unicode characters in test strings.

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🛠 Packaging & Contributing

Build distribution packages:

pip install build
python -m build

Creates wheels and source distributions in dist/.

Project structure:

• core/converters.py — conversion logic & validation
• data/morse_dataset.py — Morse/ASCII mapping
• api/app.py — FastAPI application
• api/routes/v1.py — versioned endpoints
• views/ui/ctkinter_ui.py — GUI with customtkinter
• test/ — unit and API tests

Contributing: Bug reports and PRs welcome. Please include repro steps and test cases.

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📜 License

MIT License — see LICENSE for details.