Showing a Dialog at Startup

[leifw]

I'm running DW CS3 for Windows. I'm trying to write an extension which will
show a dialog at start up. The "Extending Dreamweaver" manual says, "If you
place a command file in the Configuration/Startup folder, the command runs as
Dreamweaver starts up." I've done that. That code runs. It also says, "You
can also show warnings, prompt the user for information, or call the
dreamweaver.runCommand() function." Calling dreamweaver.runCommand() doesn't
seem to work. I can put the same code in a command that is executed after
startup and it works fine, but within my startup command, it seems like
Dreamweaver just ignores my calls to runCommand().

Quite specifically, my startup command contains:
alert('before');
dreamweaver.runCommand('myCommand.htm');
alert('alert');

I see the "before" and "after" alerts, but I don't see the dialog defined in
myCommand.htm.

Do you have a suggestion?

Thanks,

Leif

[Joris van Lier]

"leifw" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> I'm running DW CS3 for Windows. I'm trying to write an extension which
> will
> show a dialog at start up. The "Extending Dreamweaver" manual says, "If
> you
> place a command file in the Configuration/Startup folder, the command runs
> as
> Dreamweaver starts up." I've done that. That code runs. It also says,
> "You
> can also show warnings, prompt the user for information, or call the
> dreamweaver.runCommand() function." Calling dreamweaver.runCommand()
> doesn't
> seem to work. I can put the same code in a command that is executed after
> startup and it works fine, but within my startup command, it seems like
> Dreamweaver just ignores my calls to runCommand().
>
> Quite specifically, my startup command contains:
> alert('before');
> dreamweaver.runCommand('myCommand.htm');
> alert('alert');
>
> I see the "before" and "after" alerts, but I don't see the dialog defined
> in
> myCommand.htm.
>
> Do you have a suggestion?
>
> Thanks,

Just checking: your dialog command page DOES contain a form, I recall a form
tag in the html file being required to show any dialog at all.

[leifw]

Yeah, thanks for asking. My command does have a form. I tossed a few input tags in for good measure. My dialog still doesn't show up.

[Joris van Lier]

"leifw" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> Yeah, thanks for asking. My command does have a form. I tossed a few
> input tags in for good measure. My dialog still doesn't show up.

As a work-around you can change your command to an _onOpen triggered command
by appending _onOpen to the filename,
then set a flag that you the next time to not show the dialog.

[leifw]

Thanks, Joris.

That's an interesting work around. I'll give it a try.

Leif