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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 »

PrimalPad gets upgraded with code folding, new languages and the ability to run scripts. With this new 2011 version of the ever popular Notepad replacement you get support for code folding in VBScript, JScript and PowerShell. Because some of you asked nicely, we also added SQL and Python to the languages supported by PrimalPad's syntax coloring. Last but not least, you can now run your script files from within PrimalPad. While it doesn't have PrimalScript's output capture abilities, it still works pretty well for some quick hit and run scripting. The tools menu is where you make it all happen.…   More »

SAPIEN code editors usually default to "Courier New" when you install them first. The reason for that is simple: It's installed on virtually every Windows system since Windows 98. Once in a while we get a wave of emails asking us to change that default to whatever the author prefers. Here is a brief, albeit incomplete, look at what has been suggested over time. Please note that some of these fonts are only available with a specific license or must be purchased separately. All images are 450 x 170 with a 10 point font setting.   Courier New (Default)  …   More »

Some folks wandered by our booth and after realizing that some of our products involve editing scripts of various languages reacted with statements like: "I use notepad, it works fine", "Notepad is just on every machine" or "What would you do that Notepad can't do.?" Others bowed their head almost in shame while admitting that they use notepad. First of all, there is nothing wrong with using notepad if you have nothing else available, you make do with what you have. How much more of a sophisticated editor on top of just plain Notepad you need is for you to…   More »

For some time now, SAPIEN has been distributing a free "Scripting Toolkit" CD at various trade shows and events. This CD contains copies of all of our free tools, trial versions of our paid applications, samples of our ebooks and training videos and other cool stuff. All of this stuff is available individually for download on our various sites. But because you have asked for it, we have made available the ISO image that we use to burn all of this cool stuff onto CD. So with one (rather large) download, you can get the full CD's worth of scripting…   More »

Every now and then you need to put a script as its own documentation somewhere. Either on a blog for others to see or on some internal web site for documentation. PrimalPad has been updated to include that functionality.Simply click File - Export to HTML... and it will save your script as colored HTML. The version you  need to have for this is 1.0.16   …   More »

PrimalPad has been updated to recognize all PowerShell V2 keywords and cmdlets for syntax coloring. Check your Help -> About and look at the version number, if it's not 1.0.13 you may want to head over to our Community Tools site and download it in your color and platform of choice.   …   More »

PrimalPad has been updated (1.0.12) to support Windows 7's taskbar thumbnails for open documents. It shows all open documents as thumbnails and switches the current document temporarily as you hover over a thumbnail. For those who wish to go with the default Windows 7 thumbnail, which only shows the currently active document, go to View -> Settings and disable Taskbar Thumbnails.…   More »