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Chapter 2. Introduction

This application is an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) to write, execute and debug SIMPOL applications. There are two SIMPOL IDE releases, one allows the user to work in Unicode and the current ANSI code page, and the other allows the user to work just in the current ANSI code page.

The application is mainly an editor to write documents in the SIMPOL language. This editor provides a color-coding engine that makes it very easy to write in SIMPOL. There are many features that help the user to write code. For example, a Find in files tool, copy and paste, full screen view, and most recently-used file and project lists. It also supports working with different languages in the same SIMPOL application in that other languages can be correctly color-coded, such as XML, HTML, JavaScript, and others. The editor is very flexible and can be easily personalized. The editor supports other languages as XML, HTML, JavaScript, Visual Basic, ….

The objective is to write a complex SIMPOL application quickly and be able to maintain it easily. The IDE manages the dependences among SIMPOL files and compiles, executes and allows debugging of SIMPOL projects, even CGI projects! It also provides project documentation tools to easily document the various components of a project.