Dreamweaver codding help

[drVAli]

Hi

I was wandering is there is a way or any extensions that could help me code
php in dream weaver.

More specifically, I was looking for some of the functionality Notepad++ has.
Namely, it highlights opening/closing brackets when your selecting / move the
carrot on another bracket.

Example:

If (bla) {
// bla
}_

( _ being the carrot)

Is there a way to add this functionality to dreamweaver?

[Joris van Lier]

"drVAli" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> Hi
>
> I was wandering is there is a way or any extensions that could help me
> code
> php in dream weaver.
>
> More specifically, I was looking for some of the functionality Notepad++
> has.
> Namely, it highlights opening/closing brackets when your selecting / move
> the
> carrot on another bracket.
>
> Example:
>
> If (bla) {
> // bla
> }_
>
> ( _ being the carrot)
>
> Is there a way to add this functionality to dreamweaver?
>

Dreamweaver MX has similar functionality,
it's called "Balance Braces" and the keyboard-shortcut is Ctrl-', it will
select all code between the braces.

Auto highlighting matching braced can be done by an extension, but it will
probably degrade performace, as every time the cursor moves, a matching
brace has to be looked for , the Translated Source has to be updated an
dreamweaver has to re-render the document.

Joris

[drVAli]

Hey

Thanks for the reply.

Ctrl+' is useful, but is there something similar for square brackets? (like
for arrays)

Also, I would like to build an extension to do this (highlight the brackets
only)
Do you know of any place I can get some information on this?
preferably a piece of code that messes with the text in the code view, that I
could modify.

[Joris van Lier]

"drVAli" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> Hey
>
> Thanks for the reply.
>
> Ctrl+' is useful, but is there something similar for square brackets?
> (like
> for arrays)
>
> Also, I would like to build an extension to do this (highlight the
> brackets
> only)
> Do you know of any place I can get some information on this?
> preferably a piece of code that messes with the text in the code view,
> that I
> could modify.

The function used by Balance Braces / Ctrl+' ;
dom.source.balanceBracesTextView(), seems to be defined in the C API, and
thus isn't available for tinkering with the javascript.

There is some API documentation about "Customizing Code view", but it
doesn't mention any javascript functions that modify the code view
[url]http://livedocs.adobe.com/en_US/Dreamweaver/9.0_Extending/dwr_customizing_code_cc_01.html[/url]

Then there's the Translator API but it only seems to affect Design View,
[url]http://livedocs.adobe.com/en_US/Dreamweaver/9.0_Extending/dwr_data_translators_dt_01.html[/url]

Highlighting (instead of selecting) in code view, if at all possible would
require a complex combination of Translation, ThirdParty tags, dynamically
generated Code Coloring and frequent use of
dreamweaver.reloadCodeColoring(), which would probably degrade dreamweavers
performance. I think that's why the Dreamweaver engineers chose to implement
is like this as a selection.

If you want to implement it as a selection for angled braces then I
recommend you have a look at the dwscripts.getBalancedSelection function,
although it works with tags it'll give you the general idea...

Joris

[Joris van Lier]

"drVAli" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> Hey
>
> Thanks for the reply.
>
> Ctrl+' is useful, but is there something similar for square brackets?
> (like
> for arrays)
>
> Also, I would like to build an extension to do this (highlight the
> brackets
> only)
> Do you know of any place I can get some information on this?
> preferably a piece of code that messes with the text in the code view,
> that I
> could modify.

According to [url]http://livedocs.adobe.com/dreamweaver/8/apiref/18_cod81.htm[/url]
balance braces should already work with {},{} and ()