{"id":3819,"date":"2012-04-18T11:53:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-18T19:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sapien.com\/blog\/?p=3819"},"modified":"2012-04-30T10:07:36","modified_gmt":"2012-04-30T18:07:36","slug":"primalscript-2012-whats-new-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/18\/primalscript-2012-whats-new-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"PrimalScript 2012: What&#8217;s new? (Part 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, you read correctly, there is a PrimalScript 2012. In this blog series we will introduce you to everything that is new, improved or changed in this version.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s start with the most obvious change: The user interface!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/image1.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"image\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/image_thumb.png\" width=\"644\" height=\"389\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yes, a Ribbon interface. We know that many of you will cheer, some of you will say &#8220;Big whoop&#8221; and some will reel in utter disbelief. Before any of you start sending us emails, please give it a moment, look at it and try it out.<\/p>\n<p>We have spent a considerable amount of time during this re-design to streamline access to the most commonly used functions, to throw out obsolete functionality and to add new bits and knobs that were long overdue.<\/p>\n<p>For all the nay-sayers on the ribbon interface, lets address some of the concerns we heard:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>It uses so much more space, I need all the real-estate for my code I can get.<br \/><\/strong><br \/>Ok. Let&#8217;s look at that. Here we have a typical PrimalScript 2011 vis-a-vis a 2012 screenshot:\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/image2.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"image\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/image_thumb1.png\" width=\"244\" height=\"149\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The difference between the two is negligible. We did choose 2011 toolbars with roughly the same functionality as&nbsp; the 2012 Home tab offers.<br \/>In either case Shift+Alt+Enter switches to full screen mode and you get the same space in either version.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/image3.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"image\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/image_thumb2.png\" width=\"244\" height=\"154\"><\/a><\/p>\n<li><strong>I can hide the toolbars since I don&#8217;t use them anyway and only use the menu.<br \/><\/strong><br \/>Ok. Right-click on the ribbon and select &#8220;Minimize Ribbon&#8221; With that one click everything hides, as opposed to hiding multiple toolbars one-by one.\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/SNAGHTML1e25c2d.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"SNAGHTML1e25c2d\" border=\"0\" alt=\"SNAGHTML1e25c2d\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/SNAGHTML1e25c2d_thumb.png\" width=\"244\" height=\"170\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you click on a tab, just like previously with the menus, it rolls out, lets you do what you need to do and neatly folds away again afterwards.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/image4.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"image\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/image_thumb3.png\" width=\"244\" height=\"42\"><\/a><\/p>\n<li><strong>But I use the keyboard to navigate the menu.&nbsp; I don&#8217;t want to take my hand off the keyboard and use the mouse. I don&#8217;t want to constantly change between keyboard and mouse.<br \/><\/strong><br \/>Alright. No problem. Hit the F12 key to set the focus to the ribbon.\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"image\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/image5.png\" width=\"421\" height=\"166\"><\/p>\n<p>Press H for the Home tab, F for the File tab, V for the View tab and so forth and the corresponding items become visible and marked with they keys.<br \/>Of course you can hit Alt+F for the File tab, Alt+H for the Home tab right away.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"image\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/image6.png\" width=\"667\" height=\"173\"><\/p>\n<p>So Alt+H+F+F is find in files. Easy. We know it&#8217;s a change and you will have to re-learn some things. But if you are a keyboard person you probably memorized all the keyboard shortcuts anyway (i.e. Ctrl+Shift+F for Find in Files) and this makes no difference for you.<\/p>\n<li><strong>Everything is in a different place, I have to start learning all over again. It&#8217;s hard to find things.<br \/><\/strong><br \/>Well, yes, it is different. We made a real effort to place the things you need all the time on the home tab: Clipboard, Edit, Find, Navigate, Platform, Run, Debug and Help. Most of the icons are the same as the ones you are used to from the toolbars. We had ten menus to explore in PrimalScript 2011 vs 6 tabs in 2012. So that is four places less to look for things.\n<p>Some items you use constantly, like New, Open, Save, Undo and Redo are placed on the so called Quick Access Bar.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"image\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/image7.png\" width=\"172\" height=\"57\"><\/p>\n<p>So even with the Ribbon minimized these are always there. Or course you can customize that Quick Access Bar and add the things you need.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In the next posts we look at the individual panels and their categories. Stay tuned\u2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, you read correctly, there is a PrimalScript 2012. 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