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Affrus 1.0

Affrus 1.0 is an integrated Perl editing and debugging environment for Mac OS X that wraps Perl in a standard, familiar, and intuitive user interface. It's the perfect center for all your Perl development needs on Mac OS X. Whether you're just beginning to experiment with Perl and want an easy way to get your feet wet, or you're a Perl expert wishing to understand and hack into a vast body of existing code, Affrus is for you.

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Editing

The Affrus editor is tailored to the Perl language. It provides syntax coloring, identifier indexing, and a host of other editing tools to make Perl development faster. Affrus integrates with Bare Bones Software's BBEdit and TextWranger for those who prefer to edit in these tools.

Debugging

Affrus presents a full-featured graphical debugger tuned to the needs of Perl programmers. The debugger features step-wise execution, breakpoints, tracing, and expression evaluation as well as stack frame tracing with full access to locally scoped (my) variables. The debugger also displays all Perl registers and variables from any Package.

Command Line Integration

Affrus provides a command line tool that allows all of Affrus's debugging capabilities to be invoked from Mac OS X's command line. For instance, you can pipe stdin to the command line tool to debug with live data.

	Affrus 1.0 retails for US$99 for electronic download.
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Features

Editing

Single window editing/debugging UI design

Find and replace

Drag and drop

Split-pane editing

Unlimited undo/redo

Table Of Contents popup menu

Contextual Perl navigation menu

	locate handler/variable declarations
	lists in-scope variables
	display perldoc documentation for Perl commands and modules

Check syntax with graphical error display

View and change breakpoints as you edit

Use BBEdit or TextWranger as an external text editor

Run with one of a number of command line argument sets

Pass files to @ARGV by dragging files from the Finder

Debug new unsaved scripts and scripts with unsaved changes

Optional line number display

Optional line wrapping

Optional Perl syntax highlighting

Bracket, brace and structure balancing

Shift selection right/left

Comment/uncomment selection

Tooltips showing expression values while debugging

Current line and subroutine indicator

Scripts palette provides access to a range of Perl boilerplate code

Integration with Perltidy (perltidy.sourceforge.net)

Variable declaration highlighting

Multiple clipboards and Clipboards palette window

Environment variable definition

Supports multiple Perl configurations

Debugging
	Single-step execution
	Step into and step out of handlers
	Trace execution
	Call stack display
	Display local variables
	Automatic display of all variables in scope
	Breakpoints
	Breakpoints window
	Expressions window
	Variable change highlighting
	Circular reference detection
	Variable values can be edited when debugging
	Debug scripts run from the Unix shell
	stdout/stderr console display
	Perl package display
	Displays all Perl special variables
	Displays variable and value memory location
	Displays value class names
	Variable/value change highlighting

Affrus Command Line Tool
	Unix shell integration
	stdin redirection
	Environment variable redirection

Dock Integration
	Displays state (running, paused) in Affrus Dock icon
	Can control script execution from Affrus Dock menu

Scripting
	Scriptable through a fully object oriented scripting interface
	Recordable
	Attachable
	Expandable Scripts menu and palette

Pricing and Availability

Affrus 1.0 is now available. It retails for US$99 for electronic delivery, and US$109 (plus shipping) on CD-ROM.

Support

Technical support (by either telephone or the Internet) is free. We will periodically release incremental updates at no charge that will be available only to registered users. Affrus 1.0 comes with a 30-day, no-questions-asked, money-back guarantee.

Macintosh System Requirements

Affrus 1.0 for the Macintosh requires the following software and hardware:

Any Power Macintosh -- G4 or G5 Processor recommended
15MB hard disk space
CD-ROM drive
Mac OS X 10.2 or later
Perl 5.6 or Perl 5.8