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Building Dreamweaver 4 & Dreamweaver UltraDev 4 Extensions

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Overview

More than 600,000 Website authors use Dreamweaver to develop and design their sites. This work, written by award-winning extension developers, features an in-depth look at critical Dreamweaver internals - like objects, behaviours, commands and more.

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ISBN-13:	9780072191561
Publisher:	McGraw-Hill Companies, The
Publication date:	01/01/2001
Series:	Application Development
Pages:	232
Product dimensions:	7.53(w) x 9.28(h) x 0.56(d)

Table of Contents

	Acknowledgments	xv
	Introduction	xix
Chapter 1	Beginning Dreamweaver Extensibility	1
	What Is an Extension?	2
	What Kinds of Extensions Are There?	4
	Behaviors	5
	Objects	5
	Commands	6
	Data Sources	6
	Server Behaviors	7
	Browser Profiles	7
	Floaters	7
	Inspectors	8
	Menus	8
	Server Models	8
	Third-Party Tags	9
	Translators	9
	Reports	9
	References	9
	Building Extensions	10
	The Configurations Folder	11
	The User Interface	11
	JavaScript Code	13
	The Document Object Model	13
	Selections and Offsets	14
	Nodes	16
	Dot Notation	17
	JavaScript API Methods	19
	Shared Folder Functions	21
	Display Help	21
	What to Take Away from this Chapter	23
	Extending Dreamweaver Documents	23
Chapter 2	Objects and Behaviors	25
	Objects	26
	A More Complex Object	31
	Coding Your Object	33
	Third-Party Tags and XML	38
	Behaviors	40
	Behavior Functions	40
	The BUDAlert Behavior	41
	A More Complex Behavior	45
	Focus Field	45
	Focus Field Functions	47
	The onLoad Event	49
	The Focus Field Behavior	49
	Focus Field Behavior Functions	52
	Some General Observations about Focus Field	55
	What to Take Away from this Chapter	57
	Exercises	58
Chapter 3	Commands	59
	Using Commands	60
	The Command API	61
	Menu-Location=None	63
	Creating a Basic Command	64
	Buttons in Command Files	66
	Using Regular Expressions in Commands	69
	Making History Commands	72
	Copying a History Command to the Clipboard	73
	Using Commands from Other Extensions	73
	Recursion	74
	Adding Head Code	75
	Building the Extension	76
	The User Interface	80
	Menu Commands	82
	Creating the Set Text Editor Prefs Command	83
	The Design Notes Functions	85
	Updating the User Interface	86
	Creating the Menu Items	87
	The Open With Command	88
	What to Take Away from this Chapter	91
	Exercises	92
Chapter 4	Property Inspectors and Floaters	93
	Property Inspectors	94
	The Interface of a Property Inspector	94
	Inspecting the Selection	97
	Form Inspector	98
	The canInspectSelection Function	102
	The inspectSelection Function	103
	Other Custom Support Functions	105
	Floaters	108
	Creating an HTML Mini Editor	108
	Running Commands from a Floater	111
	Creating an Extension Mini Editor	114
	What to Take Away from this Chapter	120
	Exercises	120
Chapter 5	Introduction to UltraDev Extensions	123
	How Is UltraDev Different from Dreamweaver?	124
	Server Behaviors	124
	Steps for Building a Server Behavior Extension	126
	Your Final Code: The First Step	128
	Accessing the Server Behavior Builder (SBB)	129
	Creating the Code Blocks	131
	Generating the Interface	133
	Adding JavaScript to the Auto-Generated File	136
	XML Files	137
	Extending the Server Behavior Builder (SBB)	141
	Other UltraDev Extensions	146
	Data Sources	146
	Connections	146
	Server Formats	147
	Server Models	148
	What to Take Away from this Chapter	148
	Exercises	149
Chapter 6	The Dreamweaver Menus and Extension Packaging	151
	The menus.xml File	152
	Packaging Extensions	152
	Main Tag	153
	Products and Authors Tags	153
	Description of the Extension	154
	Putting Your Files into the Extension Package	154
	Changing the Dreamweaver Menus	156
	Wrapping Up the Package	157
	Using Shared Files in Your Extension Package	159
	Extension Organization	161
	Adding Your Own Menu and Menu Items	162
	Adding an Item to the Context Menus	165
	Using the MXI File Creator Packager Extension	168
	What to Take Away from this Chapter	175
	Exercises	175
Chapter 7	Testing and Deploying Extensions	177
	Testing and Debugging the Extension	178
	Using Alert Boxes	179
	Using Eval and Trace Console	182
	The Public Domain Extension Debugger Extension	186
	Repackaging and Version Control for Extensions	187
	Deploying the Extension	188
	The Macromedia Exchange	189
	Downloading Extensions	190
	Uploading Extensions	192
	Other Options	197
	What to Take Away from this book	197
Appendix A	Shared Functions Reference	199
	Shared CMN Folder Functions	200
	Shared\MM\Scripts\CMN#Ul.js	200
	Shared\MM\Scripts\CMN#doclnfo.js	201
	Shared\MM\Scripts\CMN\DOM.js	203
	Shared\MM\Scripts\CMN\file.js	204
	Shared\MM\Scripts\CMN\form.js	206
	Shared\MM\Scripts\CMN\insertion.js	206
	Shared\MM\Scripts\CMN#string.js	207
	Shared Class Folder	208
	UltraDev Shared Files	209
	Other Important Files	210
	Extensions.txt	211
	SourceFormat.txt	211
	TagAttributeList.txt	212
	localTextDW.htm and localTextUltraDev.htm	212
	Summary	213
Appendix B	Further Reading	215
	Web Sites	216
	Books	217
	Index	123

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