Overview
InterSoft Scriptum is a PIGUI (Platform-Independent GUI) editor, designed specifically to help programmers do their job better.
InterSoft, which creates software to run on multiple platforms, has faced since its beginnings the lack of a tool that is homogeneous across very different hardware environments and operating systems. Dalí, InterSoft's text-based editor, solved this problems many years ago. But, as computing power increased and graphical windowing systems grew in importance, InterSoft saw the need of extending Dalí into the graphical world; hence Scriptum.
Scriptum was supposed to run on many platforms. To achieve this goal, InterSoft chose to work with wxWindows, a library that isolates the programmer from the specific environment, and that is currently ported to Motif and OpenWindows X Window and to Microsoft Windows, with Mac and OS/2 ports on the works.
Features
Scriptum has many features InterSoft's programmers have found useful along years of work in heterogeneous environments. Some of these are:
- Completely configurable: Scriptum lets the user configure almost everything in the environment. From colors to toolbars, shortcuts and even menus, all just editing a small group of easily understandable text files.
- Polymorphic editing: Scriptum will use a different environment (View in Scriptum parlance) to edit each different type of file, changing color definitions, menus and toolbars and even the way of viewing the data to suit every file editing needs.
- Remote editing: using the industry-standard FTP protocol, Scriptum lets the user edit multiple files (with lock mechanism) across different servers.
- Literate programming, with C/C++, Yacc, Perl, Lisp, Scheme, Eiffel, HTML, LaTeX, Java, UNIX Shell language and Scriptum own configuration files pre-configured.
- Powerful navigation and file/source browser commands accessible with only a few keystrokes.
- Fully Integrated with RCS/SCCS and other common UNIX tools (grep, diff, etc.). E.g.: it is possible to edit different versions of the same file and compare them, change them, etc.
- Language independent user-configurable (support for English and Spanish is included).
- Fully integrated with InterSoft's UCM (Universal Compiler Manager), a powerful tool similar to MAKE, but without many of MAKE's shortcomings, completely configurable and whose source files run without changes under UNIX, Windows and DOS.
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Last Modified: 01:13am , January 20, 1996