Dialogs

Syntax Highlighting Dialog

Menu: View -> Customize colors...

Syntax Highlighting Dialog allows you to customize colors of the syntax highlighting in DzSoft Perl Editor. First select an element you want to change, and then use the left mouse button to set a foreground color and right mouse button to set a background color. To recall a preset, select it from the drop-down list at the top of the window and click Set.

Standard presets:

Default Classic
Twilight Ocean

Environment Variables Editor

Menu: Run -> Edit Environment Variables...

Environment Variables Editor alows you to edit environment variables and script parameters that are used in the built-in script previewer (Run feature).

In this dialog box you can also edit script parameters.

Insert Print Function Dialog

Menu: Quick Insert -> Print Function...

Allows you to insert a lot of text output to your script easily. For example, this

<a href="mypage.htm">My link!</a>
<a href="yourpage.htm">Another link!</a>

will be converted to this:

print "<a href=\"mypage.htm\">My Link!</a>\n";
print "<a href=\"yourpage.htm\">Another link!</a>\n";

Edit "Quick Insert" Dialog

Menu: Quick Insert -> Edit List...

This dialog allows you to set some code snippets to insert quickly in a script. You may specify one-line code snippets and/or paths to files with multi-line code fragments. In this dialog you can also change or disable shortcut keys used in this feature. This may be useful if default shortcut keys conflict with your keyboard layout.

File Template Dialog

Menu: Tools -> File Template...

Allows you to choose a custom file template used when you click "New" or start the program.