Sunday, July 4, 2010

Guide to Script Toolbar - HowTo Stuff

The Script toolbar presents a submenu from which options related to Ruby and PHP coding may be selected.  The following functions are included:

Run Ruby Commands
presents submenu from which the commands below may be selected

Note: If the ruby.exe has not been installed, selecting any of the options below will result in an error dialog indicating that the ruby.exe could not be found.  The latest version of the Ruby EXE for Windows may be downloaded here: http:// www.ruby-lang.org/
Check Syntax
checks syntax of active Ruby script
Run Script
runs active Ruby script
Command Line Options
presents dialog (shown below) for specification of command line options
PHP Commands
presents submenu from which the commands below may be selected

Note: The first time one of the commands below is selected a dialog is shown where the user must browse to locate the php.exe on the local system.  If you have not installed PHP on your system please go to http:// www.php.net/ downloads.php and download the latest version and follow the installation instructions.

If PHP has not been installed on your system the functions below will not operate and will only prompt for the location of the php.exe.
Run Script
runs active PHP script
Syntax Check
checks syntax of active PHP script
Syntax Check All
checks syntax of all scripts in all open PHP files
Parse Document
parses active file and presents HTML equivalent of scripted events in  documentname-parsed.php file
Stripped Comments
strips comments and whitespace from active file and reformats it and presents result in  documentname-parsed.php file
Highlighted Source
converts script to HTML text bracketed by  and  allowing script to be displayed in an HTML file highlighted as it appears in UltraEdit
Select PHP Executable
presents a dialog for user to browse to location of php.exe.

Ruby Command Line Options
If Command Line Options is selected from the Script toolbar submenu, then the following dialog will be presented.  Users familiar with Ruby may use this interface to launch Ruby with specified command line options and run this on the active script.  For further information regarding the Ruby programming language please see: http:// www.ruby-lang.org/.



* Please note: These features are only supported in UEStudio, and not in UltraEdit.