Version 5 Features

• General
  • Java, C#, Javascript, HTML, XML, CSS, C/C++, JSP, ASP, PHP, Perl, CGI, SQL, ...
  • Custom file types
  • Syntax coloring
  • Color printing
  • Smart indent
  • Smart keys
  • Bookmarks
  • Code folding
  • Drag and drop
  • Line numbers
  • Character ruler
  • Code browser
  • Recent Files list
  • Recent Projects list
  • Open in directory list
  • Custom file types
  • Support for different coding styles
  • Scriptable with 750+ scripts included
  • MINDS index for accessing external document systems
  • Active html browser
  • Spell checker set up for checking code (e.g. the name getVariableType can be checked by subword)
    • Ignore capitalized words
    • Ignore all-caps words
    • Ignore words with numbers
    • Ignore mixed case words
    • Check subwords
    • Case sensitive
    • Check code/tags
    • Check quoted strings
    • Check comments
    • User dictionary
    • Change all
    • Ignore all
  • Easy file template creation using macros
  • Macro recording and playback
    • Javascript based (macros are just recorded scripts)
    • Extensible macro library
    • Records basic editing (typing, cut, copy, paste...)
    • All command scripts are recordable
• Java
  • Target JDK switching (all JDK releases supported)
  • Ability to compile/run/debug application, applets and servlets
  • Smart complete (autocomplete) for class and interface members
  • Smart complete for import and class names
  • Smart template insertion
  • Parameter info guide
  • Project support
  • Automated code folding (also known as outlining)
  • Java syntax check
  • Ant integration
  • Built-in Java parser (JDK 1.4 compatible)
  • MINDS indexes for JDK javadocs
  • F1 help for keywords, classnames and variables
  • Many custom scripts such as insertJavadocMethod, getFullClassname, checkSyntax, comment, renameFile, getVariableType, compileFiles, debugExternal, debugServlet, ...
  • Debugger
    • Default debugger is JPDA based
    • Optional script based visual wrapper around jdb
    • Visual program marker
    • Visual breakpoint
    • Custom breakpoint handlers
    • Debug toolbar with step, step in, step out, run to caret, continue
    • Remote debugging
    • Servlet debugging
• C# (only in SitePad Pro)
  • C# syntax checking
  • Built-in C# parser
  • Automated code folding
• XPath (only in SitePad Pro)
  • XPath toolbar
  • Select tag, content, or both
  • Matches marked with blocks (background colored)
• User Interface
  • Multi-panel configurable layout
  • Workspace panel with help, library, tools, myprojects, class view, file view, and package view subtabs.
  • MDI tabbed windows
  • Tabbed output panels (results, build, debug, find in files 1, find in files 2)
  • Custom tabbed output panels for script based commands
  • Hot keys
  • Custom toolbars and menus
  • Custom workspace tabs
• Help
  • F1 support for Win32 help
  • F1 support for MINDS (Modelworks INdex Document Search) help
  • MINDS index generation scripts for javadocs
  • MINDS tab in the workspace panel
    • Documents
    • Contents subtab
    • Index subtab
    • Search subtab
    • Favorites subtab
• Editor
  • Context menu for common operations
  • Syntax highlighting
  • Custom editor colors and fonts
  • High-light current line
  • Auto indent of pasted text
  • Code comment/uncomment for both block and line comments
  • Auto indentation of closing brace
  • Matching delimiters highlighting
  • Go to line number
  • Line/column indicator
  • Multilevel Undo/Redo
  • Drag and drop
  • Line numbers
  • Character ruler
  • Automatic support for Windows, UNIX and Mac file types
  • Spaces to tabs on open and tabs to spaces on close
  • Insert spaces for tabs
  • Relative and absolute smart indent
  • Simple and no automatic indent
  • Split windows
  • New window
• Output
  • Double click to go to error in source code
  • Input area for interactive commands
• Workspace
  • Context menu for showing/hiding tabs
  • Custom tabs
• Search and Replace
  • Finder toolbar
  • Auto update of Find What
  • Simple, whole word, case sensitive and regular expression search
  • Incremental search and replace in editor
  • Search and replace in directory and open windows
  • Save results to a file
  • Replace values can include tags from regular expression match
  • Custom scripts
  • Regular expressions
    • Perl 5 plus extensions syntax
    • Back references
    • Line anchors
    • Word operators
    • Character classes
    • File oriented - can use the \n to match newlines
• Bookmarks
  • Bookmark Toolbar
  • Named and unnamed bookmarks
  • Go up/down to the next bookmark in the same file
  • Go to first/last bookmark (global)
  • Go to the next/previous bookmark (global)
  • Choose a named bookmark
  • Remove bookmark(s)
  • Selection history bookmarks
• Project support (Version 5 and 6)
  • Add package/sub-project
  • Auto include
  • Include subdirectories
  • Project report
  • Integrated with tool scripts (compile, build, ...)
• Solution and Builds support (Version 7)
  • Define build unit and properties during startup
  • Build units can be defined for any use
  • Common Solution, Build and Debug menus
  • Multiple configurations
  • Preprocessor support using Dash
• Advanced
  • Custom scripts
  • Internet Mail (POP3 and SMTP objects)
  • FTP object
  • HTTP object
  • Interface with ActiveX objects
  • Export syntax colored code to html
• Tools
  • External tools support (run any program with a command line interface)
  • Export
  • Make
  • Custom scripts
  • More ...