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Using Dreamweaver for Application Development
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Using Dreamweaver for Whitebeam Application DevelopmentThe document describes how to configure Macromedia's Dreamweaver (versions
3 or 4) for Whitebeam Application development (for more information on Dreamweaver
visit Macromedia's website). ConfigurationDreamweaver is a very flexible graphical editing environment for the web, one
of its key features being its support for custom tags. Through configuration
files you can enter definitions of special tags and on start-up Dreamweaver
will incorporate them into its parser. Right-click the following file links
and save the files in the locations specified. | File | Description and Location |
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whitebeam.xml
redbourne.gif | These two files need to be stored in /program files/macromedia/dreamweaver
3/configuration/ThirdPartyTags directory (it has similar files ASP, ColdFusion
etc. in it). This path might vary slightly depending on the operating
system on your computer. | extensions.txt | This file tells Dreamweaver about the "rhtm" file
extension and should be put in the /program files/macromedia/dreamweaver
3/configuration directory. Again this path might vary slightly depending
on the operating system on your computer. Note that this file replaces the
existing extensions.txt that is in the directory. |
After putting these files into the correct directories all you need to do is
restart Dreamweaver and Whitebeam markup support will be enabled! UsageThe support offered by the files above is limited to telling Dreamweaver how
to display the "rhtm" files correctly, note that "Property Inspectors"
will not exist for the Whitebeam tags and their contents will have to be edited
via Dreamweaver's Quick Tag Editor or via its Source Code Editor. This table
explains how each Whitebeam tag affects Dreamweaver and the facilities available.
Note that each instance of a Whitebeam tag is displayed in Dreamweaver's display
with a  icon. | Tag | Characteristics |
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rb:header, rb:redirect, rb:return, rb:xmp,
rb:cachecontrol, rb:include, rb:nomacro, rb:noscript, rb:validation, rb:protection,
rb:insertdebug | These tags are all displayed by Dreamweaver as server markup. They can
be edited directly by the Dreamweaver Property Inspector that displays
them. | rb:script, rb:macrotag | These tags are all displayed by Dreamweaver with
a blank Property Inspector. The Source Editor has to be used to edit their
contents. | rb:authenticate | These tags are not shown at all by Dreamweaver
if they are outside the opening and closing <html> tags otherwise
they are displayed like <rb:header> etc. | rb:block, rb:repeatfor | The contents of these tags (i.e. the tags etc.
that are within them) are shown with a light blue background. You will need
to click twice to select an item within them as the first click will select
the entire block of content. | rb:test, rb:true, rb:false | As with rb:block the contents of these tags will
be shown with a light blue background. You will need to click three times
to select content within a true or false block. | rb:eval, whitebeam attributes | These will all be displayed by Dreamweaver with
a standard text Property Inspector, they can be edited with the Quick Tag
Editor. |
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