Affrus 1.0.1 Update

Affrus 1.0.1 is a maintenance release that addresses a series of issues that came to light following the release of Affrus 1.0.

Release Notes

The Affrus 1.0.1 Update contains the following changes:

• $_ and several other Perl special variables are now colored properly.
• The Errors pane displays a single entry for repeated errors on the same source line.
• The Errors pane only displays the first 200 errors. If there are more than 200 Check Syntax errors, Affrus will indicate how many errors were skipped.
• Fixed compatibility problems with the FindBin module.
• Fixed a problem where the Check Syntax command would clip error messages.
• Fixed compatibility problems with the HTML::Parser module (and all modules that depend on it).
• Fixed a crashing bug that can happen when the Recent Files menu is set to sort files in the order in which they were opened.
• Fixed a crashing bug that can happen when stepping out of subroutines.
• Fixed a problem where run-time errors were not reported when a script was run to completion.
• Fixed a colorizing error for -xxx string literals.
• Fixed a colorizing error for 'bless \$instance => $class;'.
• Fixed a colorizing error with HERE documents.
• Fixed a problem where tied scalars in package scope were listed twice in the debugger.
• The Affrus install process now detects when the user's PATH contains Perl in non-standard locations and gives you the option of using your version of Perl or /usr/bin/perl.
• Fixed a cosmetic problem in the way registration information is displayed in the About dialog.
• The Affrus Help index was omitted from the 1.0 release that prevented searching the Affrus Help book. It is now included.
• When running Perl 5.8 and later, Affrus can now set/clear breakpoints while a script is blocked in a system call (select/read/write/etc.). However, Perl 5.8.1 (as shipped on Panther) does not restart system calls correctly following a signal so doing this causes select/read/write/etc. to return prematurely.
• The Affrus tool has been altered to handle intermixed Perl/Affrus switches properly.