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How well do you know PrimalScript or PrimalForms? Do you have the writing skills necessary to write a detailed technical manual for our products? If so, SAPIEN is looking for someone to write a clear, understandable and detailed manual for our products. We are really looking for people with significant writing experience, a good knowledge of our products and a willingness to delve even deeper into them. You will be working directly with our developers to create the manuals for the next versions of our products! Become the authority on SAPIEN software! If you are interested, submit a resume and…   More »

All SAPIEN Software has docking panels of some kind or another. Combine a multi-tabbed environment like PrimalScript with docked multi-tabbed panels and it can get a bit overwhelming if you dragged your output windows somewhere by accident and can't get it back to where you think it should be. Let's look at the overall layout of PrimalScript:   As soon as you start dragging a panel group or a panel the docking guides appear as shown above.You can drag an entire group of tabbed panels by grabbing the active panel by its caption as shown above. If you only want…   More »

Wow! Has another year gone buy already? It seems as if it was only yesterday that I wrote a Welcome 2011 blog post. 2011 saw quite a bit of activity from SAPIEN. New versions of all of our software products were released. Digital download versions of our videos became available. We continued and improved our support for iOS. So what is in store for 2012? Well I can tell you but then I would have to send the SAPIEN minions to do terrible things to you! Just kidding! About the minions... Seriously though, I would not want to ruin any…   More »

If you package your script with PrimalScript's or PrimalForm's packager you have the option of including a manifest. This manifest can be used to make your executable file prompt for elevation when executed. It's easy to spot the difference between an application that will prompt for elevation and one that does not by looking at the icon: Now, imagine the surprise if you get a shield on your icon and an elevation prompt when you run a file you packaged without a manifest. As you can see from the image below it's all in the name: I simply took the…   More »

When you create a new file in PrimalScript you have several options: 1. Click on the File New button in the toolbar 2. Click the little arrow next to it to create a specific type of file 3. Select File – New… and choose a specific type form the menu 4. Press Ctrl+N to create a new empty file Number 1 and 4 usually pop up the following dialog when used the first time: If you click yes you can select a default template. Now, we all know, in the midst of a hectic work day if some pesky dialog…   More »

Look to the right, there is a new poll. Some of you have come to love it some of you loath it: The Ribbon interface used in Microsoft Office 2007 and above. Windows 7's Paint has it. Windows 8 will have it for Windows Explorer. PrimalForms had it from the beginning. Some find it offers easier access to common functions, some claim it makes it easier to discover functionality. Yet others despise the look and don't want the screen real estate wasted in that manner. Compare the user interface area of PrimalScript 2011 and PrimalMerge 2011:     Please use…   More »

You wanted to know what's new in the 2011 versions of PrimalScript and PrimalForms. Please check out the brochures we created here: http://www.sapien.com/assets/pdf/ReasonsToUpgradeToPrimalScript2011.pdf and here: http://www.sapien.com/assets/pdf/ReasonsToUpgradeToPrimalForms2011.pdf   These will tell you a little bit about the products and also have a grid comparing them to previous versions.…   More »

Yes you can! Just make sure you run PowerShell ONCE before installing PrimalScript. Some of the PowerShell assemblies are not available in the GAC before it runs at least once.…   More »

Look to the right. There is a  new poll. We are curious if you use the Start Page that usually comes up first when you start PrimalScript or PrimalForms. Come on, it's just one click, "Yes", "No"  or, if you have never seen it, "What start page?" Thanks! Oh, and feel free to comment if you have any suggestions or gripes.…   More »

We are always looking at improving our products or adding useful features. When we originally created the WMI part inside PrimalScript's object browser, it was all about WMI properties. But many WMI classes have methods too and we felt you should be able to see them. Many thanks also to all the users who let us know that this is a feature they need as soon as possible. We always appreciate hearing what you would like to see. So with this service build (6.0.150) we added WMI methods to the browser and generate help information on the fly as shown…   More »