On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 07:53:10PM -0700, Patrick Spence wrote:
> I think with only a little work, someone familiar with making extensions for
> Dreamweaver could easily code a module for TCL/ADP that works just as well
> as its PHP application tools.. which would give rapid prototyping and
It was done for the ACS 4.x templating system, which of course uses
ADP. I don't have the code, but I know for a fact that the
Dreamweaver hooks were written, by Jonathan Sefton
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, who was CTO at one of the aD London office's
clients. Here's what he had to say about that, back in October:
----- Forwarded message from Jonathan Sefton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -----
From: "Jonathan Sefton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'Andrew Piskorski'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "David Fullagar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"'Jeff Davis'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RE: DreamWeaver ADP hooks?
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 20:00:34 +0100
Hi Andrew,
Sorry for the slow reply; just moved house & been waiting for NTL to
hook up broadband, so haven't been checking email very often (forgotten
how tedious dial-up is).
I don't think I do have the Dreamweaver stuff - Infoshare were pretty
strict about returning all s/w on exit. It's just possible I might have
it on another machine which isn't unpacked yet. Bear with me and I'll
check - might take a couple of days.
If I can't find the original stuff, it should be pretty easy to
reproduce. It wasn't such a big deal - Dreamweaver has its own
XML-based extension mechanism which lets you describe tags & behaviours.
You just drop the XML files into the appropriate config folders & it
just works. Macromedia have (had?) a very detailed manual on how to do
this; it is (was?) available on their website in PDF format. All the
stuff I did was with DW-4. I notice they now have something called
Dreamweaver 'MX' - don't know how different that is.
We did have some good ideas for more advanced ways to connect
Dreamweaver & ADP, in particular by using some of the 'page contract'
information to build 'palettes' of available fields for the graphic
designers to drop onto the page. We also had some ideas for dynamically
displaying a complete page within Dreamweaver, i.e. applying all the ADP
<master> and <include> tags.
Incidentally, I assume you're already aware of Nick Strugnell's 'themes'
code, which we used pretty extensively on the Infoshare site? That was
probably a bigger hit with the designers than the Dreamweaver extension.
I'll drop you another email if/when I find the Dreamweaver stuff.
Cheers,
Jonathan
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----- Forwarded message from Jonathan Sefton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -----
From: "Jonathan Sefton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RE: DreamWeaver ADP hooks?
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 22:44:25 +0100
In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Main Dreamweaver documentation...
http://www.macromedia.com/support/dreamweaver/documentation.html
For DW-4 you want to start with this doc:
'Using Dreamweaver 4' - zipped PDF:
http://download.macromedia.com/pub/dreamweaver/documentation/using_dream
weaver4.zip
***Page 537 onwards:
'Customizing the interpretation of third-party tags'
This tells you how to define new tags (i.e. the ADP tags)
'Extending Dreamweaver 4' - zipped PDF:
http://download.macromedia.com/pub/dreamweaver/extend/ext_dreamweaver4.z
ip
***Chapter 8 - This tells you how to create custom 'property
inspectors', which let you add support for the attributes of the ADP
tags to the DW interface. For example, when you select an <INCLUDE> tag
you get a dialog to modify its attribute(s).
Disclaimer: I don't know anything about Dreamweaver MX!
J.
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