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Application Development

By: Ray West, Tom Muck

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