Open Perl IDE

File Release Notes and Changelog

Release Name: Open Perl IDE 1.0

Notes:
-Perl 5.8 support
-Better syntax coloring by using a new highlighter component.
-Important debugger improvements, including better support for huge arrays.
-Previous instance detection on program start.
-Several minor HelpViewer and Configuration enhancements.

Changes:
1.0.11.409a, 12 Feb 2003: New debug template script supports Perl 5.8

1.0.11.409, 31 May 2002: Debugger/Environment/Print bugfixes, Performance Optimization
-General Optimization: Faster program start and exit.
-General Bugfix #548184: Printing under Win2000 works now.
-General Bugfix (could be #446790): Debugging/Executing a script A together with an another unsaved executable script B had lead to a corruption of the tab captions.
-General Bugfix: The WindowMenu, which contains a list of child windows has been lost with the previous release.
-General Bugfix: It is no more possible to change the active project during debug initialization.
-Debugger Bugfix: Program could not be closed sometimes. This error did occur for example when
the debugger had been waiting for STDIN and there had been more than one pending Hint-Evaluation and 
when after leaving the STDIN-Block, the debug session was terminated by executing the previously 
buffered navigation commands.
-Debugger Bugfix: Variables declared without my could not be evaluated. This bug has been re-introduced with the previous release.
-Debugger Bugfix: Hint evaluation for large scalars returned 0 - fixed. 
-Debugger Bugfix: Windows created by Win32::GUI are no more hidden. 

1.0.10.383, 26 May 2002: Better SyntaxColoring, Debugger/HelpViewer Enhancements/Bugfixes
-General Feature #546807: Open Perl IDE now checks for a previous instance and activates it if one exists 
-General Feature: Ability to open more than one file given by command line parameters.
-General Feature: Error and Console window are automatically shown, if some data arrives.
-General Bugfix #492586: Sometimes after compilation or debugging, the focus has been lost.
-Editor Bugfix: Deleting breakpoint lines in editor has caused duplicate entries in breakpoint list.
-Editor Bugfix: It was possible, to add breakpoints before the first and after the last line of script.
-Editor Bugfix: Open Perl IDE now uses a new Highlighter component, written by Murad Kakabayev. This solves the following bugs: #485357 Multiline String Highlighting and FollowUps, #494373 # in regex treated as comment char, #494403/#494411 keywords in backticks, #513645 Inline comment (=head1 =cut)
-Debugger Bugfix #530190: Debugger has modified nested data structures by requesting undefined elements.
-Debugger Bugfix #524666: Before debugging, watch tree is now collapsed and for each item all children are cleared.
-Debugger Bugfix: MessageParser has had some problems with \n characters. This caused a wrong evaluation of arrays, which had been read from a text file.
-Debugger Bugfix: 532361: The modulus character (%), has been shown as large hash in hint and watch tree.
-Debugger Feature #477359: Displaying contents of large array may have blocked Open Perl IDE for several seconds. Now large arrays are evaluated in blocks of 1024 elements.
-Help System Bugfix: #510014: Drag n drop from Help Viewer has crashed IDE
-Help System Feature #510020: HelpViewer supports clipboard copy (CTRL-C) and a "search text on page" (CTRL-F).
-Docking Bugfix: On desktop switching, any window docked into editor area has been brought into front, hiding any previously active script window.
-Docking Bugfix: DockHandler has created an unnamed page control at design time. This has been lead to an error when compiling Open Perl IDE.
-Docking Bugfix: DockHandler dynamically creates PageControls without setting their Parent. 
From time to time this has lead to an undesired BringToFront of Open Perl IDE 
when switching to another application. 
-Configuration Feature: ForeGround and Background Color of Selection is now configurable.
-Configuration Feature: Color and Position of Editors RightEdge-Line is now configurable.
-Configuration Bugfix: Perl Path only persists if it has been set in Preferences Dialog.
-Configuration Bugfix #516008: Tab width wasn't stored if it was changed with spin button.