# Finalbuilder 8?

**URL:** https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/finalbuilder-8/1876
**Category:** Discussion
**Created:** [October 17, 2011, 4:09am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/finalbuilder-8/1876 "2011-10-17T04:09:49Z")
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### Author: ![dcraggs](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/87869e/32.png) [@dcraggs](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/dcraggs)
#### Post date: [October 17, 2011, 4:09am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/finalbuilder-8/1876/1 "2011-10-17T04:09:49Z")

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&nbsp;Just wondering when the next version of FinalBuilder will be released?

Dave

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### Author: ![Vincent](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/user_avatar/www.finalbuilder.com/vincent/32/938_2.png) [@Vincent](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/Vincent)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2011, 12:10pm UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/finalbuilder-8/1876/2 "2011-10-18T12:10:37Z")

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Hi Dave   
  
 We don’t have a specific release date in mind at this stage, however FB8 is being worked on. If you have any specific feature requests or ideas for features please do let us know.

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### Author: ![deleted\_user](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/user_avatar/www.finalbuilder.com/deleted_user/32/937_2.png) [@deleted\_user](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/deleted_user)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2011, 4:04am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/finalbuilder-8/1876/3 "2011-11-22T04:04:58Z")

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I'd like to see the support for PowerShell and scripting enhanced in a few areas:

- Better syntax highlighting in the Script Editor for PowerShell.
- Better PowerShell integration (no more $FBVariables.GetVariable(...)).
- Ability to dock the script editor to the centre of the main tabbed area (as opposed to just on the edges).

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### Author: ![Vincent](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/user_avatar/www.finalbuilder.com/vincent/32/938_2.png) [@Vincent](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/Vincent)
#### Post date: [November 24, 2011, 3:17am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/finalbuilder-8/1876/4 "2011-11-24T03:17:34Z")

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Hi Damien

1)&nbsp;Better syntax highlighting for powershell

I'd like to see this myself. Whether will happen or not I&nbsp;cannot say yet. The powershell language doesn't lend itself too well to the the type of syntax parsing that the editor control employs. There are a lot of ambiguous identifiers etc. If time permits I'd like to write a new parser that knows about verbs, cmdlets etc.

2) No more $FBVariables - that will be difficult, we have to pass the variables to powershell somehow, and poluting the powershell namespace with our variables would probably break users scripts. You know that you can shortcut the syntax a little with $FBVariables["VARIABLENAME"]

3) Docking the script editor the the main tabbed area. That might happen. I did play with that when developing the FB7 IDE (which was pretty much a from the ground up new IDE), however we had some issues with saving/loading the layouts that we were not able to get past in time. I'll revisit that for FB8 though because I need to do the same thing for other views as well.

Thanks for the feedback.

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### Author: ![deleted\_user](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/user_avatar/www.finalbuilder.com/deleted_user/32/937_2.png) [@deleted\_user](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/deleted_user)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2012, 7:58am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/finalbuilder-8/1876/5 "2012-01-19T07:58:10Z")

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I want ability to singlestep and debug any included FinalBuilder script.

Regards

Roland Bengtsson  
Team Attracs