Win32Forth SciEdit

SciEditMdi.exe is a Multiple Document Interface (MDI) text editor for Win32Forth. It is written in Win32Forth utilizing the w32fScintilla.dll.

SciEdit provides the ability to edit source files for Win32Forth.

The menus and toolbar provide the options that are available. The interface is similar to most typical Windows programs and should be mostly familiar to users who have used other editors.

The tool bar buttons can be assigned to perform similar functions to those on the menus. The menus may list shortcut keys on the right hand side of the option description. Shortcut keys can be used to quickly perform commands without clicking the corresponding toolbar button or navigating to the menu selection.

• The file menu contains choices that have to do with opening and saving files as well as the usual Exit option :

The first 3 choices have to do with opening and closing edit windows and loading and saving files to be edited.

• New File opens an empty editing window where text can be entered and edited.
• Open File allows opening an existing file from the file system.
• Close File closes the active editing window.

The next 3 choices have to do with saving files to the file system.

• Save writes the currently selected edit window to the file system in the file that was opened for editing or asks for a file path and name if none currently is assigned.
• Save As allows saving the currently selected edit window to the file system in a user specified file path and name.
• Save All is a multiple application of the save command.

• Open Highlighted File

• Open HTML File prompts for the file to open and then displays the HTML file as it would appear in a web browser.

• Exit asks if any unsaved files should be saved and then closes the program.

The most recently edited files are listed just below the exit choice for easy access to re-open them for editing.

• The Edit menu contains text manipulation commands :
• Undo reverses the most recent edit action.
• Redo reverses the most recent undo edit action.
• Cut removes the selected text and places it on the clipboard.
• Copy copies the selected text to the clipboard.
• Paste copies the clipboard contents to the current cursor position.
• Delete removes the currently selected text from the edited document.
• Line Cut removes the selected line of text and places it on the clipboard.
• Line Copy copies the selected line of text and places it on the clipboard.
• Line Delete removes the selected line of text from the edited document.
• Line Transpose
• Line Duplicate creates a copy of the selected line of text.
• Select All selects all the text in the current edit window.
• Remove Selection un-selects any selections that have been made.
• Search Text allows text to be specified to be searched for and then finds any occurrence of the specified text and positions the edit window so the text is visible and highlights the matched text.
• Search Next repeats the most recently specified search action.
• Find text in files allows multiple files to be specified and searched for matching text.
• Insert Date inserts the current system date at the current cursor position.
• Insert Date and Time inserts the current system date and time at the current cursor position.
• Block comment allows a group of specified lines to be commented out.
• Block uncomment removes a previous block comment from a group of specified lines.
• Lower Case converts the highlighted text to lower case.
• Upper Case converts the highlighted text to upper case.

• The View menu contains:
• Display Line Endings shows the line ending characters which are usually not visible.
• Display White Space shows spaces and tabs which are usually not visible.
• Display Line Numbers shows numbers in the left hand margin to indicate how far down in the file the line is.
• Colorize Source shows keywords and various other items of text in distinctive colors to allow for easy identification. Makes editing source code easier on the eyes and helps identify spelling errors.
• Browse switches the display mode from simple text editing to hyperlinking. Right clicking words in a source file will jump to the definition of the word if it can be located.

• The Options menu contains:
• Line Endings allows specifying the character or characters to be used to terminate lines based on the target operating system custom.
• Create Backup Files specifies that the original files should be saved as backup files before changes are made.
• Save All Files Before Compile writes any unsaved changes to the file system before performing the compilation process. This can prevent loss of changes if the machine crashes or hangs before the file could otherwise be saved.
• Set Tab Options allows specifying how the Tab key should be handled.
• Show Status Bar toggles display of the status bar at the bottom of the window.
• Show Toolbar toggles display of the toolbar just below the menu.
• Customize Toolbar provides an edit dialog for modifying the contents and order of the toolbar buttons.

• The Win32Forth menu contains:
• Compile invokes the Win32Forth compilation process with the active window as input.
• Debug
• Class and Vocabulary Browser displays a tree view containing class and vocabulary names that are currently defined in the Win32Forth system.

• The Window menu contains the customary window position adjustment options:
• Tile Horizontally displays the windows the full width of the client area with each active window the same size vertically.
• Tile Vertically displays the windows the full height of the client area with each active window the same size horizontally.
• Arrange allows positioning the active windows.
• Cascade overlaps the windows so that their title bars are visible and stepped for easy location.
• Close All closes all open edit windows.

• The Help menu contains:
• Help For Highlighted ANS word will open the ANS documentation to the section describing the selected ANS word.
• Win32Forth Documentation opens the Win32Forth help in the default web browser.
• ANS Forth Standard opens the ANS documentation in the default web browser.
• Win32Forth Project Group opens the Win32Forth.org home page in the default web browser.
• Win32Forth Forum opens the Win32Forth Yahoo discussion group home page in the default web browser.
• About… shows the customary credits and version numbers for the program.