Little question about create extension

Leandro_Brazil · Leandro_Brazil

Hi!

I have some little question about create extension.

What it means : 

What difereces about these doctypes:

<!DOCTYPE HTML SYSTEM "-//Macromedia//DWExtension layout-engine 5.0//dialog">
<!DOCTYPE HTML SYSTEM "-//Macromedia//DWExtension layout-engine 5.0//floater">
<!DOCTYPE HTML SYSTEM "-//Macromedia//DWExtension layout-engine 5.0//pi">

Whem I write my js script I need to use:
language="javascript" or type="text/javascript"

I need to write only HTML or I can use XHTML too.

Thanks

danilocelic *TMM* · danilocelic *TMM*

Leandro_Brazil wrote:

> What it means :

This line tells Dreamweaver not to show an extension within the menu
system. For example, you may have a Command that is invoked from an
Object (Insert bar icon), but you do not want the Command to be listed
on the COmmands menu, you'd use this comment.

> What difereces about these doctypes:
>
> <!DOCTYPE HTML SYSTEM "-//Macromedia//DWExtension layout-engine 5.0//dialog">
> <!DOCTYPE HTML SYSTEM "-//Macromedia//DWExtension layout-engine 5.0//floater">
> <!DOCTYPE HTML SYSTEM "-//Macromedia//DWExtension layout-engine 5.0//pi">

I don't know what the practical differences are between them, but use
the floater one for any floating panels you make, the PI for any
Property inspectors you make, and the dialog one for any extension that
will have a dialog appear.

> Whem I write my js script I need to use:
> language="javascript" or type="text/javascript"

Within DW extensions, you actually don't have to use either, a plain
<script> tag would be fine. However, I try to get in the practice of
using what I'm using in web pages, just so I don't get sloppy in web pages.

> I need to write only HTML or I can use XHTML too.

I've not seen any issues with XHTML code, but HTML is "good enough".

Here's my generic getting started post:

MX04:
Help > Extensions > Extending Dreamweaver
and
Help > Extensions > API Reference
and
Help > Extensions > Creating and Submitting

livedocs as well:
[url]http://livedocs.macromedia.com/dreamweaver/mx2004/index.html[/url]

Dreamweaver MX 2004 SDK (includes MXI format for DWMX 2004):
[url]http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/exchange/index.cfm?view=sn121&extid[/url]...

MXI File Format for DWMX 2004:
[url]http://download.macromedia.com/pub/dw_exchange/mxi_file_format.pdf[/url]

MXI File format for DWMX and earlier:
[url]http://download.macromedia.com/pub/dw_exchange/mxi_file_format.pdf[/url]

Books (dedicated):
Building Dreamweaver 4 and Dreamweaver UltraDev 4 Extension
Tom Muck and Ray West
[url]http://basic-ultradev.com/building_extensions/index.asp[/url]

Dreamweaver MX Extensions
Laura Gutman
[url]http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0735711828/qid=10686781[/url]...

Covers extending:
Dreamweaver MX The Complete Reference
Ray West and Tom Muck
[url]http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0072195142/basicultradev-20[/url]

Dreamweaver MX 2004 The Complete Reference
Ray West and Tom Muck
[url]http://dwteam.com/tcr/[/url]

Beyond Dreamweaver
Joseph Lowrey
[url]http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0789727404/qid=10686785[/url]...

Plus, always good to see what others have done. Visit the Exchange and
look at as many as you can:
[url]http://www.macromedia.com/exchange/[/url]

Lists of DW extension developer sites:
[url]http://www.dwfaq.com/Resources/Extensions/default.asp[/url]
[url]http://www.felixone.it/extensions/mext.asp[/url]

And also the site I write for: [url]http://www.communitymx.com/[/url] I have a few
extension related articles there (commercial site).

--
Danilo Celic
| Extending Knowledge, Daily [url]http://CommunityMX.com/[/url]

Leandro_Brazil · Leandro_Brazil

Thank?s for this information.

It was good.

But other question.

Why when I put the tag <label> like that:

...
<tr>
<td valign="baseline"><label>Name:</label></td>
<td valign="baseline"><input style="width:135px" type="text" name="name"
id="name"></td>
</tr>
...

the extension stop to funciton?

If I use this tag (label) the dw needs to be closed
but why?

danilocelic *TMM* · danilocelic *TMM*

Leandro_Brazil wrote:

> If I use this tag (label) the dw needs to be closed
> but why?

I can replicate that crash on a couple of systems. Not sure why that is
occuring, but if you use the for attribute, then it seems not to crash:
<label for="name">Name:</label>

Another weird thing that seems to appear with this once you add the for
attribute, if you do not have a value attribute, then you get some
"square" symbols appear.

--
Danilo Celic
| Extending Knowledge, Daily [url]http://CommunityMX.com/[/url]

danilocelic *TMM* · danilocelic *TMM*

danilocelic *TMM* wrote:

> Another weird thing that seems to appear with this once you add the for
> attribute, if you do not have a value attribute, then you get some
> "square" symbols appear.

A little more testing and I see that if the value attribute is empty (
value="" ) then those symbols appear as well.

I also tried wrapping the field with the label tag with and without a
for attribute and that also caused a crash.

Please report your crash to (I'll report it too):
[url]http://www.macromedia.com/support/email/wishform/[/url]

--
Danilo Celic
| Extending Knowledge, Daily [url]http://CommunityMX.com/[/url]

danilocelic *TMM* · danilocelic *TMM*

danilocelic *TMM* wrote:

> A little more testing

And some more....

When I deleted the id attribute, it appeared to start working again
without a for attribute, both wrapped nad not wrapped around the filed.

Also, removing the id attribute cleard up the square symbols issue as well.

--
Danilo Celic
| Extending Knowledge, Daily [url]http://CommunityMX.com/[/url]

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