Developing Extensions for Macromedia Dreamweaver 8
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| Introduction 9 Background 9 Installing an extension 10 Creating an extension 10 Additional resources for extension writers 11 What's new in Dreamweaver 11 Conventions used in this guide 13 PART 1: CUSTOMIZING DREAMWEAVER Chapter 1: Customizing Dreamweaver 17 Ways to customize Dreamweaver 17 Customizing Dreamweaver in a multiuser environment 27 Working with browser profiles 30 Changing FTP mappings 34 Extensible document types in Dreamweaver 35 Chapter 2: Customizing Code View 55 Code hints 55 Code coloring 63 Code validation 92 Changing default HTML formatting 95 PART 2: OVERVIEW OF EXTENDING DREAMWEAVER Chapter 3: Extending Dreamweaver 99 Types of Dreamweaver extensions 100 Configuration folders and extensions 102 Extension APIs 105 Localizing an extension 107 Working with the Extension Manager 109 Chapter 4: User Interfaces for Extensions 111 Designing an extension user interface 111 Dreamweaver HTML rendering control 112 Using custom UI controls in extensions 113 Adding Flash content to Dreamweaver 124 Chapter 5: The Dreamweaver Document Object Model 127 Which document DOM? 128 The Dreamweaver DOM 128 PART 3: EXTENSION APIS Chapter 6: Insert Bar Objects 139 How object files work 140 The Insert bar definition file 141 Modifying the Insert bar 148 A simple insert object example 150 The Objects API 161 Chapter 7: Commands 167 How commands work 167 Adding commands to the Commands menu 168 A simple command example 168 The Commands API 176 Chapter 8: Menus and Menu Commands 181 About the menus.xml file 182 Changing menus and menu commands 191 Menu commands 194 A simple menu command example 197 A dynamic menu example 201 The Menu Commands API 209 Chapter 9: Toolbars 215 How toolbars work 215 A simple toolbar command file 218 The toolbar definition file 220 Toolbar item tags 226 Item tag attributes 232 The toolbar command API 238 Chapter 10: Reports 249 Site reports 249 Stand-alone reports 253 The Reports API 256 Chapter 11: Tag Libraries and Editors 261 Tag library file format 262 The Tag Chooser 268 A simple example of creating a new tag editor 270 Tag editor APIs 275 Chapter 12: Property Inspectors 279 How Property inspector files work 281 A simple Property inspector example 282 The Property inspector API 285 Chapter 13: Floating Panels 289 How floating panel files work 290 A simple floating panel example 291 The Floating panel API 297 Chapter 14: Behaviors 305 How Behaviors work 306 A simple behavior example 307 The Behaviors API 312 Chapter 15: Server Behaviors 321 Dreamweaver architecture 322 A simple server behavior example 324 How the Server Behavior API functions are called 326 The Server Behavior API 329 Server behavior implementation functions 335 Editing EDML files 337 Group EDML file tags 340 Participant EDML files 347 Server behavior techniques 369 Chapter 16: Data Sources 379 How data sources work 380 A simple data source example 382 The Data Sources API 391 Chapter 17: Server Formats 399 How data formatting works 400 When the data formatting functions are called 402 The Server Formats API 403 Chapter 18: Components 407 Component basics 407 Extending the Components panel 408 How to customize the Components panel 408 Components panel files 409 Components panel API functions 412 Chapter 19: Server Models 423 How customizing server models works 423 The Server Model API functions 424 Chapter 20: Data Translators 433 How data translators work 434 Determining what kind of translator to use 435 Adding a translated attribute to a tag 435 Inspecting translated attributes 437 Locking translated tags or blocks of code 437 Creating Property inspectors for locked content 439 Finding bugs in your translator 442 A simple attribute translator example 443 A simple block/tag translator example 447 The Data Translator API 452 Chapter 21: C-Level Extensibility 457 How integrating C functions works 457 C-level extensibility and the JavaScript interpreter 459 Data types 460 The C-level API 461 File Access and Multiuser Configuration API 470 Calling a C function from JavaScript 479 PART 4: APPENDIX Appendix: The Shared Folder 483 The Shared folder contents 483 Using the Shared folder 491 |
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