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Welcome to Neveprise CamelRider BetaRelease! This document is provided for information on this betarelease of CamelRider. Please read it BEFORE using this product - to get to know what bugs are known, what features will be improoved and / or added in the next versions and more. 1) Introduction 2) Known bugs 3) Forthcoming features 4) Contact (Bug report, ideas, critics & comments) 1) Introduction CamelRider is Neveprise's first version of the Perl IDE. Yes - I know that there are a lot of more such editors out there that even support other languages (btw.: who said CamelRideris just for PerlScript??? :-) ). But most of'em are Shareware. Okay - they are more professional, but CamelRider is and will be Freeware in the future, and I hope to improove this tool from time to time. Please try it and please give a response, regardless if you want to report bugs etc. or not. Always happy when getting feedback. 2) Known bugs The following list reveals known bugs, strange behaviour and missing or incomplete features of CamelRider. Help: the help system and documentation is far from completed and most probably full of mistakes. Hope to have time to finish it and to remove the wrong things. Running scripts directly: Perl / script cannot receive parameters from STDIN or commandline yet - only parameters for Perl itself work. Thus, giving a script those params is only possible doing it from an associated HTML form using a webserver. If anyone knows how to manually (means by commandline) pass parameters kinda "script.pl?var1=hello&var2=world" (GET method) and those passed from forms (POST method), please mail to: mail@neveprise.de . Console: only internal commands (means: internal commands from cmd.exe / command.com) are displayed in the console itself. Others are displayed in a dedicated window. Code inspector: sometimes it may happen that things that are not variables and subroutines are listed, e.g. stuff in comments Syntax highlighting: very bad thing!!! Okay, it is a self hack and hope to improove it. Problems: when starting a new script, colouring is completely weird. Some words are coloured wrong, not at all or it does not fit. Tip: type more than 256 characters, save the code, close and reopen it - should be better (but sometimes still bad :-((( ) And: speed!!!!! It just takes too long to make the code shiny....dammned. Tip: switch syntax highlighting off if it takes too long, or just remove some definitions, e.g. just let marking comments turned on. Syntax highlighting options (editor preferences): sometimes the settings are not accepted. Tip: no matter if adding a new definition or changing it, always change the scope options. File / directory settings: these options have *no* effect at all at the moment....*g View options: "Tip of the day" visible setting not reminded the right way. Custom shortcuts: eeh, somehow not perfect Build-in browser: back / next buttons cause an "unknown error" when having no further pages to jump to. Switching between code and HTML: formerly loaded - context defined - HTML pages are taken off, e.g. when opening help. Tip of the day: not implemented yet - just turn its visibility state off. ...some more I do not remember anymore... 3) Forthcoming features Besides fixing bugs above and completing / revising the help and documentation, the following updates are planned: Code templates: delivering ones that really make sense (please send generic samples - they are welcome). Code templates: support for compilation packages containing more than one template, e.g. a complete set of templates. Scheduler: advanced task scheduler plus freestyle "notepads". Update: internet update capability. HTML: supporting dedicated HTML templates and (maybe???) a visible WYSIWYG editor. Find / replace: enhanced find and (new:) replace functions for your code. Print: code should be printable... Bug reporting: interface for that. Converter: source files can be converted from Windows to UNIX and vice versa. ...more? depends on you! 4) Contact etc. Please contact Neveprise Inc. if you have found a bug, have ideas, critics or comments. Simply do it by mail via:
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mail@neveprise.de |  | www.neveprise.de
info@neveprise.de |  | www.neveprise-inc.de
support@neveprise.de |  | www.simpledisease.de
If you are reporting a bug, please do it as detailed as possible, means specify the kind of error, how it is reproducible, which OS and version do you have (Win95A....Win98SE....Win NT 4.0 Server ...Win2k Pro...) and info on your machine (RAM, free disk space, CPU speed, VGA ecetera). I hope you enjoy CamelRider, your feedback is always welcome! Have a lot of fun, Timo "Blazko" Böwing / Neveprise Inc. Neveprise CamelRider v1.0 Copyright by Neveprise Inc. This software is freeware.