New Features in Perl Builder 2.0
New Features (both standard and
professional versions)
Redesigned and enhanced editor provides a powerful
environment for serious Perl developers:
- Unlimited undo/redo levels.
- Improved performance/speed.
- Improved color syntax highlighting lets you use bold/italic
as well as colors and background colors for specific syntax elements.
- Block indent/outdent using the tab key.
- Direct control over keyboard shortcut assignments for editor
functions.
- Find All and highlight feature.
- Improved printing support, including printing only the
selected text.
- Copy as HTML or RTF and paste highlighted text in color into
other applications such as MS Word or HTML editors.
- Glitches in display, scrolling, etc. that some Version 1.0
users experienced have been eliminated.
Improved navigation and online help:
- Subroutine navigator makes it easy to jump directly to any
subroutine in the current module.
- "As you type" parameter prompting for the core
Perl functions (similar to VB, Delphi, Visual Studio, etc.).
- Improved bookmark system.
- Context sensitive help for built-in Perl functions (just
click a Perl function name in your code and press F1).
New Debugging Engine
- Faster and higher fidelity.
- Supports interactive I/O and Perl TK. The new interactive
I/O window also allows you to view HTML/Text output as you debug, without having to switch
to the HTML/Text Output tab.
- Includes all standard debugging features.
- New "Dump" feature in the Evaluate/Modify command
displays complex/nested data.
- Pause/Reset buttons let you stop run-away scripts/infinite
loops.
- Execution directory for scripts can be specified.
- Customizable HTML color syntax highlighting in the output
window.
- Compiler errors shown in a pane below the editor. Double
click a message to jump to the problem line of code. Pop-up hint displays entire text for
long compiler messages.
- Watch window has "inspect" feature to show entire
text of long strings and allow value to be copied.
Improved CGI Wizard
- Enhanced validation options.
- Support for saving data in a text file on the server.
New Features (Professional Version
Only)
- Open multiple main scripts in the IDE and select the active
script for debugging. (The standard version allows only one main script to be open at a
time. However both versions support opening modules/libraries).
- Edit Windows give Perl Builder Professional a true
multi-window (MDI) interface, so you can open and edit scripts in separate windows. (A new
feature in Version 2.0d).
- Debug complex CGI scripts directly in your browser-without
the need for a webserver on your PC.
- Enhanced support for debugging "daisy chained"
scripts--where output from a script includes a form which calls the same or another
script.
- Code templates let you save snippets of code which can later
be inserted with a hotkey or menu.
- Autoreplace/AutoCorrect lets you specify strings so that the
editor automatically corrects errors or replaces abbreviations with the full text. For
example, you could set up two character keystrokes as abbreviations for common Perl
functions or constructs and have the editor expand them automatically.
- Built-in performance timing tools help you optimize your
scripts.
- Pod Viewer lets you view pod documentation which is embedded
in a module in a floating window. The Pod viewer formats the text and provides a table of
contents for navigation.
- Mouse-over bracket matching: Just place the cursor over any
bracket {} to highlight the bracket and its partner. Unmatched brackets are highlighted in
red. (Both Standard and Professional versions also have CNTR+[ bracket matching).
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