Welcome to PrimalSCRIPT!

    
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Highlighted features

Technical Support

Goodies

Notes

   PrimalSCRIPT is a professional editor designed for use with scripting languages. PrimalSCRIPT has all the features that one would expect from a professional editor including language independence, advanced search and replace, hex editing, code snippets, dynamic HTML preview, language sensitive syntax coloring, script file templates, FTP file access, spell checking, advanced help and much more.

PrimalSCRIPT is aimed primarily at web site developers and script authors who "want to get into the code." In addition, it is a great tool for system administrators who create automated scripts for various purposes such as user log-in scripts and system wide unattended processes. With the inclusion of Windows Scripting Host languages such as VBScript and JScript, PrimalSCRIPT becomes a tool for anyone who wants to automate their Windows operating system.

Highlighted features

  • Language independent syntax coloring for Java, HTML, Perl, VBScript, JScript, JavaScript, Rexx, Tcl, Python, LotusScript, SQL and DOS/NT Batch
  • Language specific file templates
  • FTP file open, save, get and put.
  • Hex editing.
  • dynamic HTML Preview
  • Code Snippets for supported languages
  • Spelling checker
  • Extended help handles WinHelp and HTML
  • Associate PrimalSCRIPT as the default editor for your script files
  • Email files
  • Drag and drop within a file, across files, across applications and onto Windows desktop
  • Unix file support
  • DataTips for fast conversion to and from hexadecimal and decimal numbers
  • Macro recorder
  • Regular expression search

Technical Support

Technical support can be reached by writing to:
support@sapien.com.

All support questions will be answered via email or by phone. Please include your name, phone number, email address and problem description. Support for languages that ship with PrimalSCRIPT is handled by the respective language producers.

All known problems with PrimalSCRIPT will be posted on the SAPIEN Technologies web site at:
http://www.sapien.com/bugrep.htm#knownprobs.

Users who find problems with PrimalSCRIPT can post them at:
http://www.sapien.com/bugrep.htm.

Comments and suggestions for features can be made at
http://www.sapien.com/suggest.htm.

Goodies

We have included the following on the CD disk for your convenience.

Reference material:

  • Netscape DHTML reference (HTML format)
  • HTML 4.0 reference (HTML format)
  • Javascript reference (HTML format)

Applications:

  • HTML Validator demo program
  • Internet Explorer 4.0
  • Quercus Rexx demo
  • Scriptics TCL
  • Python
  • Perl

The reference material is automatically installed in the PrimalSCRIPT\Online Help folder if you select full or custom install. The other products can be installed either from the CD browser or by opening the CD and installing directly from the appropriate folder.

Notes

Info Nexus:

The Info Nexus allows you to add Windows help files as well as HTML pages and URLs. PrimalSCRIPT will only search across local files when the user presses F1 in the edit window. URLs located remotely will not be searched and neither will links within local web pages even if those links are local as well.

JScript and JavaScript:

Because both of these languages use the same file extension but can use different interpreters, the user needs to either assign the .js extension to one or the other file type in the View-Options-Languages tab or use different extensions.

   Visit these sites:

SAPIEN Technologies, Inc.

Scriptics

CSE 3310 HTML Validator

Python Language Site

Quercus REXX

WinREXX

HTML Rename