The Integrated Development Environment

The EPL v4.0 IDE represents a very talented & convenient environment for developer. If you are RAD familiar, you will find that it is so easy to use this IDE for managing your software project & editing source code. In this IDE, also represents some functions that most coder always dreams about but never had. For every levels of developer, they will be amazing about what a fast speed to edit & complete the codes.

Visual Designing

EPL provides a recognized-well visual design environment. For creating Windows Form Application, you can easy to drag & drop controls to forms, change layout, design controls looking… just like basic Window RAD visual design environment. The environment even provides you a way to make up your form, like Window Region effect etc.

Debug Environment

Debug in EPL is a very easy work. EPL supports breakpoint, run to specified position, view real-time variable value, output debugging text and all necessary needs for debugging.

Graphical & Regular Source Code Style

EPL enables you can write code visually, not only with solid text any more. The code-editor provides you an intelligent tool to make your source code nice looking that with a flow chart, the flow chart can visually point how the flow of an application executes.

For many times & years, software development manager always be confused about how to control the team source code as one style that easy to read, in EPL that’s easier to do then ever.

In EPL, the declaration of variable name & parameter name, it’s fixed on one function’s top, the data type, variable name, return type is also fixed on their particular position. Just see the picture as below.

The most headachy & hard to control code is about the conditional statement, EPL code editor also help coder to keep their conditional statement as one fixed style automatically, whatever If/IfTrue/For/While statements, once you finish one line coding, the editor will automatically regular the code’s style and display the flow chart for conditional expression. Just see the picture as below.

“Hundreds of people, hundreds of code style”, that is the history, in EPL, “Hundreds of people, same one code style”!

Instant Help

Using EPL, you do not need to open any programming documents any more, the main IDE provides a very compact & talented instant helper to help coder for querying programming document instantly, just save coder’s time.

For example, if you want to query an already called function’s description, you just press F1 key on the function calling code. And you can also expand items of the Library Tree in Library Tab of workspace to query usage of all provided objects, data types, functions etc.

See the picture below

Coding & querying programming document, all in one IDE.

Synchronize Variable Name

EPL solves another thing that always troubled programmer, that’s “Variable Renaming”. Once you change any name in your source code, you do not need to change any reference of the element that changed name, the EPL Source Code Editor will change all the reference automatically, just make a synchronizing. The name can be whatever all name-able elements, such as variable, function, parameter, resource, class, module, form, control etc.