Advanced DW Extension forums or support?

[Geoffrey McGill]

Hey there,

I'm building a couple property Inspectors and require some tech support on
specific tasks. Mostly I'm wondering if there is a dedicated DW Extension
Development support forums somewhere? Run by Macromedia or otherwise. I'm kind
of new to this community and just getting my bearings. This forum does not
appear to deal much with actually building of extensions.

A couple of tasks that seem to be creating the most pain and suffering for me
at the moment are:
1. How can I add "Point To File" functionality to an Inspector? The icon with
the cross-hairs that you can drag/drop onto a file in the site panel.

2. How to add a button like 'Bold' or 'Italic' to an Inspector? With this I'm
not so worried about the code to actually write the tags as I am with how to
get the rollover effect of the button/image. I'm assuming the rollover effect
is built into DW like when adding objects to the Insert panel.

3. How to refresh the code when changes are made with an Inspector? For
example, if I make a change to the code with a custom Inspector, the properties
panel displays the following message:
"You have made changes to the code. To edit selection properties, click
Refresh or press F5." + "Refresh" button

When performing a similar task with the standard Inspector, the above message
does not appear. I'm assuming it' a simple function call to refresh the window,
but I just need a nudge to get me pointing the right direction.

Again, if anyone within this forum can help, I would really appreciate the
feedback, or if you know of another resource/forum somewhere, please point me
in the right direction and I'll be on my way.

Thanks for the help.

[danilocelic *TMM*]

Geoffrey McGill wrote:

> I'm building a couple property Inspectors and require some tech support on
> specific tasks. Mostly I'm wondering if there is a dedicated DW Extension
> Development support forums somewhere? Run by Macromedia or otherwise. I'm kind
> of new to this community and just getting my bearings. This forum does not
> appear to deal much with actually building of extensions.

You can ask your questions here if you want to. Or you can ask in the
Extensibility forum that you have to sign up for:
[url]http://www.macromedia.com/support/dreamweaver/extend/form/[/url]

However, I answer a large majority of the questions here and there, so
ask whereever you like to.

> 1. How can I add "Point To File" functionality to an Inspector? The icon with
> the cross-hairs that you can drag/drop onto a file in the site panel.

Unfortunately, that functionality is not exposed to extension
developers. I'd like it too. Please add your voice and request it here:
[url]http://www.macromedia.com/support/email/wishform/[/url]

To get similar functionality, you'd have to build it from scratch in a
C++ extension. Check the docs for very very basic info on creating a C++
extension. That documentation will not cover creating any dialogs, much
less creating any widgets on dialogs.

> 2. How to add a button like 'Bold' or 'Italic' to an Inspector? With this I'm
> not so worried about the code to actually write the tags as I am with how to
> get the rollover effect of the button/image. I'm assuming the rollover effect
> is built into DW like when adding objects to the Insert panel.

In a property inspector, you've have to add that functionality yourself
by adding onmouseover onmouseout events. you could then toggle the
source with those events as well as add a "pressed" state by working
with onmousedown and onmouseup.

A really quick, really simple, example of a roll over:
<img src="Bolt.gif" width="15" height="14"
onmouseover="this.src='Bolt_dis.gif'" onmouseout="this.src='Bolt.gif'">

> 3. How to refresh the code when changes are made with an Inspector? For
> example, if I make a change to the code with a custom Inspector, the properties
> panel displays the following message:
> "You have made changes to the code. To edit selection properties, click
> Refresh or press F5." + "Refresh" button

Take a look at dom.synchronizeDocument() that may help with what you're
doing.

Haven't done a PI in a while, and I don't remember this being an issue.
How exactly do you do your code changes?


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Danilo Celic
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